lvanhen If he's in the house, find him FAST!! You have no idea what he'll smell like in a couple of days!!!!
If he's in the house, find him FAST!! You have no idea what he'll smell like in a couple of days!!!!
Amen to that, brother, and I'm not even religious. Unfortunately, I have a very good idea of what he'll smell like.
How they get off selling this mouse-poison stuff is beyond me. The mouse eats the poison, crawls off somewhere inaccessible and dies. Yes, they say "the poison dries them out so they don't smell," but guess what? That's a lie. A dead mouse somewhere in your walls will smell for a week or more. Bad. Last spring, my wife gathered up a bunch of those poison things and put them outside, under the deck. Something big got into them, like a raccoon, maybe, and died under an inaccessible part of the deck. This was mid-summer, and we couldn't use that side of the deck for a month. We had to keep the windows on that end of the house closed, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I've been considering using Central Valley track for my layout. Those come as strips of ties, and you glue the rails to them. They recommend using something called Barge Cement, thinned with MEK. Don't know for sure yet how well this works because I haven't tried it yet.
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
I LIKE that!! I think the mouse is toast. He ate about 1/4 of a poison bait block last night.
SOUfan-Interesting. That site says to use metal epoxy which I've found doesn't stick to plastics very well.
No, what you need its this:
http://www.victorpest.com/
Hello look at it like this at least she seen the mouse before it found you train room and did some real damage. I had kinda the same thing happen to me last week. My little girl came in the train room to help and knock over some yellow paint all over my ballest by my yard office. Oh well it was to light anyways but I was not going to redo it just yet but I am now. tore it all up the same night. All we can do is keep working on it . Frank
I got it cleaned off as much as I could. It's not too bad, but it's not perfect anymore and will always bother me. The rails are in and I have to repaint the deck today. Glad I didn't have it weathered yet.Moms still alive.....for now....
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!! Thats some of the crappiest luck... Hopefully you'll be able to salvage. Hang in there.
Mike
OK, 2 votes for CA. So I get everything all set up to glue it together. Rails are cut to length and chamfered on the ends. I make a little jig so nothing can go wrong...........(did I just say nothing??.......)I start to put the first couple drops of CA onto the bridge ties and mom comes running into room behind and yells THERE'S A MOUSE IN THE KITCHEN!!!!!Startled, I knock over the jig and squirt half a tube of CA ALL OVER THE PERFECTLY PAINTED BRIDGE!!!!!What a frackin mess!!! Can you guess what kind of mood I'm in??? If you read in the newspaper about someone smoothering their mother to death with a pillow, you'll know who it is....
I've used CA too and it's held just fine. Check with a track gauge frequently and before applying the glue. Not much time to adjust afterwards.
Karl
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I'm securing my rails to the bridge on my TT kit. NS rail to the plastic bridge deck. Just wondering what you all have used and would recommend or stay away from. I've got Goo, CA, contact cement and weatherstrip adhesive. What say you?