Topband: Critters Eating Coax

[Joe Reisert]

Hi Jeff,

Same problem here except it's mostly chipmunks and they can only eat 
completely the small diameter coax. They even ate though my RG141 teflon coax!

What I did is to put EMT (from the hardware store which comes in 10 foot 
lengths and inexpensive) over the areas where they were most active. No 
more problems in those areas.

It's probably salt from your hands on the coax. Try rubbing down the coax 
with acetone and see what happens. Hopefully acetone wont dissolve the coax hi.

73,

Joe, W1JR


At 01:12 PM 9/6/2003, Donald Chester wrote:

>>I wonder if anyone on the reflector knows of a remedy that will stop
>>squirrels from eating the black jacket from Rg213 coax?
>
>I have had the same problem with critters (probably rodents) eating the 
>jacket from buried RG-214.  I replaced mine with RG-213 rated for direct 
>burial, but have not checked recently for damage.
>
>Don K4KYV
>
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