[Shop-talk] Here's your chance to wade in on a family argument.....

[John T. Blair]

At 10:35 AM 3/30/2008 -0400, Gerald Brazil wrote:

>
>My wife has populated every room in the house with these little devices that
>plug into an outlet. They have a little red led and an opening that looks
>like a tiny speaker. According to her, they are for keeping insects and
>rodents away. I personally believe (and have told her so, at risk of bodily
>harm, a number of times) that the only thing that I think they keep away is
>elephants. ......at that, they are very successful. We have never suffered
>from an infestation of elephants since she has been using them.

I can't say that to work, and if it's anything like the dog ultrasonic 
whistles, it doesn't bother my dad's dog.  Dad has a couple of them in
his garage.  The garage started as a 2 car garage, then dad and I added
to more bays to the front so it became 44ft long and 22 ft wide or something
close.  Then we added another section on the right side just about the 
length of the garage so now its about 3 wide and 2 deep.

We keep my 65 Morgan, and had dad's 48 TR1800, in there until he sold it
last year, plus his 2 street cars and all the tools.  Lots of cardboard,
various pieces of cloth and car covers, etc.  The neighbor behind him is
about a 5 acre grave yard.  In the 40 years he's lived there, we've found
all kinds of animals, from rabbits, mise, rats, snakes etc around the
yard and house.  But I can't recall ever having any damage done to the 
cars due to pests like mise, rats or squarles.

So while I really wonder about their effectiveness, they appear to work.

John


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