On 06/13/2016 03:20 AM, Greg Bentzinger wrote: > Today I was piddling around in the shop and I happened to open up the control > console on one of my CNC mills. This is still the OEM control. > Well the mice had climbed up the inside of the 3" square tubing which mounts > the console and they had built quite a nest inside with lots of excess urine > on the PCB's and feci everywhere. > > I will pull it out with tongs so that if anything snags on board jumpers > those jumpers and settings won't be lost. > > I may have to foam the conduit tube to seal it up as I can't conceive of a > simple (cheap) way to keep them out at the hinge point. > > I also recently acquired a CNC turning center and have not begun to think > about if/how mice might attack that. > > My thought is that ideally I would just run the machine daily and the fresh > oil covering all the interior surfaces would be a deterrent. But I don't have > work lined up such that there are (paying) jobs to be run. > Try copper or stainless steel kitchen pot scrubbers stuffed into the openings. They seem to like fiberglass insulation to nest with.
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