>>As if bird's nests weren't bad enough,<<
I know that all too well...luckily it was my car, not my plane. But the
incident has me being sure that every exposed hole is taped over or
plugged whenever I leave the hangar now! My left wing is being painted
here in my garage at home, but, since this is where the chipmunks live,
even that has tape over the aileron rod hole and the tunnel where the
wiring to the wing tip goes. Both ends of it!
Two years ago, I started logging 16 mpg tanks of gas instead of the
usual 20-21 in my Mazda RX8. Found a chipmunk had crawled up the air
intake tube and tore apart the air filter to make a nice comfy, little
home! The car had only been idle for three days, so they can work pretty
fast!
Besides the well matted down filter material, it was full of seeds and
other edibles that chippies like to munch on while relaxing after a hard
day of hunting for new homes. Luckily, nothing got THROUGH the filter,
and it was just a matter of vacuuming out the filter box and replacing
the filter. This incident did give me the opportunity to finally replace
the factory filter with a K&N. To prevent future critter visits I also
mounted a piece of 1/2 wire cloth over the air inlet.
Guess that's why they suggest you plug all the holes in your plane
before you leave it for any length of time...who knows what little
critter's real estate agent might sell him on the comfortable, protected
little spaces in our planes!
Harley
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> As if bird's nests weren't bad enough, now we have . . .
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> http://tinyurl.com/5vmasm
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> Bob . . .
