On Saturday 17 October 2015 23:17:40 Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/17/2015 09:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So I went to Shop & Save & got the only re-usable mouse > > traps they had, the other choices being sticky pads or > > DeCon. Made out of thin galvanized steel these days, a > > very very poor design. I've been bending parts around to > > make them more sensitive, but so far all I am doing is > > furnishing a 2 location daily buffet of peanut butter, > > Plain peanut butter doesn't work. What you need is chunky. > The peanut butter smell attracts them, but you have to embed > a chuck of peanut in the claw of the Victor traps with the > metal trip part. When they try to dig that chunk of peanut > out, then the trap will trip. When I detect mice around, I > freshly bait the traps, and usually hear a snap within 20 > minutes. > > Jon > These aren't victor traps, and it is chunky, but I haven't tried to actually trap a hunk under the claw. If this set fails, I'll stick a piece of english walnut under the claw & cover it with chunky PB.
But tonight I need to go dump the plastic rain gauge, its supposedly freezing here, but the airport temp 20 miles north is 40F. Figures. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
