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Old 02-15-18 | 04:39 AM
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Originally Posted by gaucho777
[MENTION=45088]nlerner[/MENTION], Actually, the cats might help. Not too long ago, I came down to my garage to find a bottle of Stan's sealant in a puddle of sealant on my workbench. Then a couple weeks later the same thing again on my tool bench. Turns out something had gnawed a hole in the bottom of the sealant bottle. Well, since then I put out a bunch of traps and caught a rat. I'm hoping it was a solo male and there are no more. If not, I fear those buggers are going to start sniffing out my the sealant that's already been injected in my mounted tubulars (and I mostly ride tubulars). What kind of animal diet is Stan's sealant! I hate flats and rodents.
I remember for a while in the mid eighties there was a rash of car accidents in Germany, the brakes on new Mercedes cars were failing, but only cars parked on the street. Cars parked in the garage were immune. Turned out the local marten population (a marten is like a very large weasel) liked the new brake linings and would eat them. Mercedes had to change the recipe.
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