Clean your cooling fins yearly

[Scrubcadet10]

I rebuilt my chicken coop a few years ago to coon proof it... Worked good for about 1 month... I had made a separate cage for their nests/roost in the inside, best i can tell is the coons got into the main coop, and reached through the chicken wire on the nest boxes and strangled them. Just strangled them.

 

[Gord Baker]

I stuff small chicken wire around the Fan shroud so they cannot get in.

 

[EatPreyMow]

If you guys liked that one you're gonna love this.


Neglected for over ten years. The mouse urine dissolved the cooling fins on cylinder head #1 and froze nearly every bolt exposed to it.




After a few weeks of cleaning and wrenching:

 

[efred]

Oh, yeah; mouse urine is highly caustic. You ought to see the fireworks when they've peed all over the armature of a 75hp, 440V, 3-phase well motor. It's spectacular, frightening, and expensive (had to replace and adapt a new motor to the old well).

 

[cpurvis]

Once per year isn't always enough.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

yeah, the best way to keep mice away, do like i do... i keep a cat under the blower housing.... i only heard him complain once.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Yuck
Worst one I ever had the nesting material was mostly cloth which was getting jambed between the starter pinion & the flywheel teeth locking the starter
The owner had burned out the starter motor after burning up a battery before he called me in .

 

[slomo]

Once per year isn't always enough.

True dat.

Early spring when you scalp the yard, might want to check the fins after mowing.

slomo

 

[slomo]

After a few weeks of cleaning and wrenching:

WOW, great job - of replacing everything. Looking good now. Even that spark plug insulator was yellow LOL.

slomo

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Maybe I could start using rat urine to clean aluminium transfer instead of acid ??