[TowerTalk] Conduit tails

[Jim Rhodes]

If you just want them dead exhaust gas will kill them pretty painessly. If
you just want them out you might try placing some dry cat droppings at one
end of the runs (in a cloth bag) to chase them out. When my parents lived
on an acreage and had a big garden they would buy lion droppings from the
zoo to keep the deer out. Or maybe a radio tuned to obnoxious music and
turned up loud at one end for a few days.

I used large hammond boxes at each end with "strain reliefs" on every line
to hermetically seal both ends.

Jim Rhodes
K0XU

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 00:46 Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I encountered an interesting problem a couple of days ago when I was
> showing my tower base shack to visitors.
>
> It seems some (3 counted) small mice have taken up residence in the
> conduits (3x 3" x 115').  They pulled out the fiberglass packing at both
> ends.  When disturbed by our visit there was a lot of scurrying around,
> then climbing up the coax and down into the conduits.
>
> So, I've placed the "sticky mats" mouse traps of a couple of brands at
> both ends in the hope of getting them out before sealing up with some
> bronze wool packing.  I was told mice won't touch using steel wool
> packing and bronze won't rust.
>
> So far got one.  Maybe they saw their brother's ugly demise, but I saw
> another scurry back into the conduits.
>
> I'd rather not fill the conduits with water, been there when an errant
> pick pocked a hole in a "dry" conduit that had totally filled with
> condensation.  That conduit was near the infested ones so am a bit
> surprised there isn't water in these otherwise watertight runs.  It
> appears the mice can run the full length.
>
> Plugging up both ends with them in residence seems like a bad idea.
> I've sealed up other access holes into the shed and shack end huge
> junction box.  Rattlesnakes at my CA QTH did love small mice, but one
> living in the conduit has some downside.  Maybe a conduit cat?  Would a
> leaf blower would blow them out?
>
> Any other ideas or proven solutions?
>
> Grant KZ1W
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