Honda Car Forum

In article <4b750$45124ea1$45035f0d$21282@msgid.meganewsserve rs.com>,
"Stan de SD" <standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM@covad.net> wrote:

> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com > wrote in
> message news:4509F8F7.E6686E58@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...
> >
> >
> > Quaoar wrote:
> >
> > > Secret Squirrel wrote:
> > > > Yeah, get a cat.... :-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> Does anyone have any other ideas on how to protect a generator from
> > > >> mice?
> > >
> > > ..get a cat that loves micies. Many do not like the leetle rodents!
> >
> > Or 2 cats even !
>
> Start of new thread: "Can you please tell me how to protect my home
> generator from cats?" :Oo
>
>

Shoot the cats......

"Stan de SD" wrote
>
> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com > wrote in
> message news:4509F8F7.E6686E58@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...
> >
> >
> > Quaoar wrote:
> >
> > > Secret Squirrel wrote:
> > > > Yeah, get a cat.... :-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> Does anyone have any other ideas on how to protect a generator from
> > > >> mice?
> > >
> > > ..get a cat that loves micies. Many do not like the leetle rodents!
> >
> > Or 2 cats even !
>
> Start of new thread: "Can you please tell me how to protect my home
> generator from cats?" :Oo
>

get a dog?

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:00:58 GMT, You <You@shadow.orgs> wrote:

>In article <4b750$45124ea1$45035f0d$21282@msgid.meganewsserve rs.com>,
> "Stan de SD" <standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM@covad.net> wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com > wrote in
>> message news:4509F8F7.E6686E58@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > Quaoar wrote:
>> >
>> > > Secret Squirrel wrote:
>> > > > Yeah, get a cat.... :-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >> Does anyone have any other ideas on how to protect a generator from
>> > > >> mice?
>> > >
>> > > ..get a cat that loves micies. Many do not like the leetle rodents!
>> >
>> > Or 2 cats even !
>>
>> Start of new thread: "Can you please tell me how to protect my home
>> generator from cats?" :Oo
>>
>>
>
So many cats, so few recipes. <sigh>

"Stephen B." <spamtrashspam@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Stan de SD" wrote
>>
>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com > wrote in
>> message news:4509F8F7.E6686E58@REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > Quaoar wrote:
>> >
>> > > Secret Squirrel wrote:
>> > > > Yeah, get a cat.... :-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >> Does anyone have any other ideas on how to protect a generator
>> > > >> from
>> > > >> mice?
>> > >
>> > > ..get a cat that loves micies. Many do not like the leetle rodents!
>> >
>> > Or 2 cats even !
>>
>> Start of new thread: "Can you please tell me how to protect my home
>> generator from cats?" :Oo
>>
>
> get a dog?

Is this the story that ends with the line "I dunno why she swallowed the
fly....I guess she'll die"? I've heard it!

Eric Lucas

On 10 Sep 2006 10:18:11 -0700, mgkelson@yahoo.com wrote:

>On Oct. 21, 2003 there was a post on alt.honda that said, in part:
>
>"I have a Honda EM5000SX generator I paid $2100
>for new 5 years ago. It only has about 10 hours on
>it as it's just backup for home. The other day it
>gave no output and turns out some mice got inside
>and ruined the generator portion. The Honda dealer
>where I bought it said it would cost more to replace
>the brushes and other components than to just buy a
>new generator. . ."
>
>Here's some more quotes on mice damage:
>
>Nov. 21, 1999
>" I recently finished rebuilding a (fixing mouse damage)
>Honda EFs-5500 generator. . ."
>
>Sep. 24, 1998
>"I will need to fab up a metal box to keep the mice out
>of the windings. . ."
>
>Jul 30, 2006
>"Mice in my shed have eaten away all insulation
>from the inside of my EU3000is. Seems the
>generator is noticeably louder without the insulation.
>I can not find a dealer who can order these two
>insulation 'blocks' from Honda. Can someone
>please measure both insulation 'blocks' and post
>the dimensions? I will try to glue alternative
>insulation in its place."
>
>I recently took a box cutter and made a small box cardboard box (out of
>a larger one) and put it over my Honda Generator. Then inside the box I
>put a can with holes in it filled with naphthalene moth balls.
>
>Now, one problem that I have is those moth balls really smell bad. In
>fact, they are stinking up my entire garage. That's a relatively small
>problem, though. A bigger potential problem I am wonder about is
>whether the fumes from the moth balls might damage the generator. Given
>the potency of the gas that those moth balls (napthalene), another
>problem, of course, is whether there is a health risk.
>
>Here's an excerpt from something I found on the internet:
>
>"CANCER HAZARD
>Naphthalene may be a CARCINOGEN in humans since it has been show to
>cause nasal and lung cancer in animals. Many scientists believe there
>is no safe level of exposure to a carcinogen."
>
>So, mothballs might not be a great idea, unless you can completely seal
>the container. Even so, the question still exists in regard to the
>generator. Is napthalene safe for a generator?
>
>Does anyone have any other ideas on how to protect a generator from
>mice?

FWIW, my next door neighbor had his garden tractor's electrical system
eaten out by mice (no real loss - the tractor was a hangar queen
anyway). that's when the mechanics told him about putting new dryer
sheets in the electrical areas and around the engine.

frankly, i'd go for the moth balls, and when i get back from this
weekend, i think i'm going that way.

of course, last night, i ran out and covered my new tractor with dryer
sheets...

"beav" <BEAVITH1@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote in message
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> the tractor was a hangar queen

8^D I've heard that term used as regards Jags, but never a lowly garden
tractor.


> frankly, i'd go for the moth balls, and when i get back from this
> weekend, i think i'm going that way.

I assume you are implying that you prefer the smell of mothballs to that of
dryer sheets. That may be the case after short-term exposure, but the
mothball smell really hangs around and gets into things, and quickly becomes
irritating. Have you read the (probably apocryphal) story about the guy
that thought he would outsmart a squirrel by using mothballs to drive it
away? The story goes that the squirrel got the last laugh by taking all the
mothballs and stashing them in the wall of this guy's house. The smell was
so into intolerable that he had to tear down the wall and clean it out.
Like I said, probably an urban legend, but certainly the purported effect is
plausible.


> of course, last night, i ran out and covered my new tractor with dryer
> sheets...

I wonder if it's the chemicals or the perfumes in the dryer sheets that
repel rodents? If it's the chemicals, than odorless dryer sheets might be
just the ticket.

Eric Lucas

In article <1157983892.852069.283000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>,
hboothe@gte.net wrote:

> What I wound up doing, on accident, was getting two stray cats and that
> took care of all my problems. I used to have mice that would get into
> my house (concrete slab, brick home), too, and that doesn't happen any
> more, either. The cats are great and have been a God-send for taking
> care of the mice. Of course, I don't have many squirrels anymore,
> either, so maybe they took care of more than I needed them to.

I put my cat food dish neat my generator

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"Nick Hull" <nhull@isp.com> wrote in message
news:nhull-BF7740.07412824092006@dialupusa.usenetserver.com.. .
> In article <1157983892.852069.283000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>,
> hboothe@gte.net wrote:
>
>> What I wound up doing, on accident, was getting two stray cats and that
>> took care of all my problems. I used to have mice that would get into
>> my house (concrete slab, brick home), too, and that doesn't happen any
>> more, either. The cats are great and have been a God-send for taking
>> care of the mice. Of course, I don't have many squirrels anymore,
>> either, so maybe they took care of more than I needed them to.
>
> I put my cat food dish neat my generator

Just make sure you know where the poor critters are when the generator
starts up.... That housing could be a mighty cozy place to sleep.

Eric Lucas

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:14:32 GMT, <lucasea@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>"Nick Hull" <nhull@isp.com> wrote in message
>news:nhull-BF7740.07412824092006@dialupusa.usenetserver.com.. .
>> In article <1157983892.852069.283000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>,
>> hboothe@gte.net wrote:
>>
>>> What I wound up doing, on accident, was getting two stray cats and that
>>> took care of all my problems. I used to have mice that would get into
>>> my house (concrete slab, brick home), too, and that doesn't happen any
>>> more, either. The cats are great and have been a God-send for taking
>>> care of the mice. Of course, I don't have many squirrels anymore,
>>> either, so maybe they took care of more than I needed them to.
>>
>> I put my cat food dish neat my generator
>
>Just make sure you know where the poor critters are when the generator
>starts up.... That housing could be a mighty cozy place to sleep.
>
>Eric Lucas
>
I had the sad experience of this happening to my old kitty
Patches. She crawled up alongside the warm car engine one cold
winter day and didn't get out when I started the car again. She
stayed there about a mile, then jumped out in heavy traffic. That
was the last chapter of her sweet little life.

Gordon

In article <Y1zRg.5860$7I1.5219@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net> ,
<lucasea@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> "Nick Hull" <nhull@isp.com> wrote in message
> news:nhull-BF7740.07412824092006@dialupusa.usenetserver.com.. .
> > In article <1157983892.852069.283000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>,
> > hboothe@gte.net wrote:
> >
> >> What I wound up doing, on accident, was getting two stray cats and that
> >> took care of all my problems. I used to have mice that would get into
> >> my house (concrete slab, brick home), too, and that doesn't happen any
> >> more, either. The cats are great and have been a God-send for taking
> >> care of the mice. Of course, I don't have many squirrels anymore,
> >> either, so maybe they took care of more than I needed them to.
> >
> > I put my cat food dish neat my generator
>
> Just make sure you know where the poor critters are when the generator
> starts up.... That housing could be a mighty cozy place to sleep.

I have replacements, they can't ALL sleep ther

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