Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice-- trap design and rad waste D& D

2019-02-19 Thread Terry Blanton
Tesla will never live it down. Damn Edison! On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:32 PM ChemE Stewart wrote: > Or, you can just throw some peanuts into the trap and wait for your iPhone > to tell you when you have a victim...no sticky messes to clean up > > Victor M2 Smart-Kill Wi-Fi Electronic Rat Trap Vi

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice-- trap design and rad waste D& D

2019-02-19 Thread ChemE Stewart
Or, you can just throw some peanuts into the trap and wait for your iPhone to tell you when you have a victim...no sticky messes to clean up Victor M2 Smart-Kill Wi-Fi Electronic Rat Trap Victor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07875MKM7/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_ITlBCbZCM29QP On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:0

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice-- trap design and rad waste D& D

2019-02-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:14 PM bobcook39...@hotmail.com < bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Bacon is of diminaimus reduced risk of missing a hungry mouse or vole for > that matter and, thus, should be dismissed as a reasonable design > alternative bate. > It has one significant advantagetyp

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: They filled in many other small holes, such as where the electric wires > used coming through the wall. > I meant where the wires used to come in. The electrician installed a new meter years ago. The box where the old one was now has birds nesting in it, which is nice. When you get new

RE: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice-- trap design and rad waste D& D

2019-02-19 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
rom Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:42:26 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice Use peanut butter on the tripping mechanism. Its e

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
My suggestion: hire an expert. We had mice galore until I hired a local company. They came and put new screens over the air vents to the crawlspace and the attic. They filled in many other small holes, such as where the electric wires used coming through the wall. They did some carpentry on the kit

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:42 AM bobcook39...@hotmail.com < bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Use peanut butter on the tripping mechanism. > Almost perfect. Use raw bacon smeared with peanut butter. Properly installed, the varmint can not remove the bacon without springing the trap.

RE: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
ows 10 From: mix...@bigpond.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:32:17 PM To: VORTEX Subject: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice Hi, Ever set a mouse trap only to discover the next morning that the cheese is gone, but the trap not sprung? The trick is to use a very small amount of cheese

[Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-18 Thread mixent
Hi, Ever set a mouse trap only to discover the next morning that the cheese is gone, but the trap not sprung? The trick is to use a very small amount of cheese, ~= 4 mm^3, and sticky tape it to the trap, with just the edge of cheese sticking out, so that they can smell it. That way, the mouse has