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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MyFavRk
Moth ***** work very well , keep them in my shop and my shed , haven't had an issue yet . I keep a couple at each corner , you get used to the smell , after awhile , you don't even smell them .
I use them in my shed also never had a problem.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by kojak
…..Specially if you live out in the country and in the wintertime when your bike can sit for days.
Winter-sit for “days”. Hahahahahahaha!

Up here we park it for months at a time…like 4!

That’s why God invented snowmobiles….
 
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 07:37 AM
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Get the cheapest, smelliest dryer sheets at Walmart. I use them in my camper bins and items in my garage. They keep vermin away and smell better than moth *****.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 07:45 AM
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Haven't experienced it on any of my bkes, but I found turds on the manifols of my wife's car, after the chewed a hole int the bottom of the master cylinder reservoir.
Had to buy an entire MC because Ford doesn't sell reservoirs separately.
I keep pioson around the shop and now the garage.

We live in the sticks and my wife has chickens, so there are critters around.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Cobra1
Get the cheapest, smelliest dryer sheets at Walmart. I use them in my camper bins and items in my garage. They keep vermin away and smell better than moth *****.
Hate to tell you, but...

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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 08:23 AM
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I've had a collection of seed hulls and mouse nest bits fly out of my exhaust pipe when I started the bike for the fist time in the Spring.
No wire damage, thankfully. I worry about that on my '48 tractor also, but so far so good.
We (I) put out snap traps at work in the office. Every time we get one, the boss' kid has to come and get me, because he's too squeamish to empty it himself. Hes like 45 years old.
 
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 08:44 AM
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Old Jun 3, 2022 | 09:04 AM
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Don't get me started on those things. I first used those in the office...the secretary stepped on one that had a still live mouse in it, She was screaming bloody murder so loud you could hear her out in the shop. I had to peel it off her shoe and finish the job. It was icky.
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Originally Posted by TSheff
Haven't experienced it on any of my bkes, but I found turds on the manifols of my wife's car, after the chewed a hole int the bottom of the master cylinder reservoir.
Had to buy an entire MC because Ford doesn't sell reservoirs separately.
I keep pioson around the shop and now the garage.

We live in the sticks and my wife has chickens, so there are critters around.
`Hope you don`t have any pets that could eat the varmints and get poisoned too...
 
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