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05-27-2019, 09:59 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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|  Chewed wires
We've been having issues with some fuzzy little squatters of late and they got to the wires on my Vaterra Ascender K-5, chewing up the servo lead and battery leads on the battery and receiver     I'm going to just use electrical tape for now and if I have to change out the ESC, I have the XL-5 that came with my 4-Tec 2.0 (put a 2 pole VXL in it) and will heat shrink the battery wires and eventually the servo wire as well. Until we can get rid of these little bastards, is there something I can put on wires wires to make then bitter to them? I'm beginning to think we need a cat or some sort of terrier at this point  Last edited by BJoe; 05-27-2019 at 10:05 PM. |
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05-27-2019, 10:30 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: My mothers basement
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|  Re: Chewed wires
We get the electric rat zapper that plugs in to the wall. Then threw dry dog food in it. I'm pretty happy with them. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
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05-27-2019, 10:33 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: My mothers basement
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They make bitter sprays for kids thumbsucking and dogs but no idea if it works on rats. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
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05-27-2019, 10:47 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: california under the rock im crawling on
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| Re: Chewed wires
ive had good luck with dish soap and tapatio red pepper hot sauce
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05-28-2019, 10:45 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Humboldt county
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Man when I first read this I was imagining that the "furry little squatters" were puppies or kittens then I saw the zapper comment lol. Maybe you can box up the truck and put it somewhere out of reach. Or... build a big rat trap that you can park the Vaterra in or bait a trap with some wire. I'll let myself out. Last edited by HumboldtEF; 05-28-2019 at 10:58 AM. |
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05-28-2019, 11:24 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: My mothers basement
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Lol Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
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