The humane traps work well - I've found that bits of chocolate chip cooky make effective bait.
So that's how you get the bastards to shut up.
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Washers - nice one Screwfix
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Just what I was going to say...
But there's oil drums, scaffolding poles and lorry inner tubes...
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Anybody remember (I think it was) Trix? Not the model railways, but a small rival to Meccano...I r emember very little apart from silver metal strips with three staggered rows of holes in them...or perhaps the name was just *like* Trix...
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We re-use ours. We also have an all-metal one which is lethal and not just to rodents. The larger, rat ones are impressive.
sort of music ...
Mary
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When you say "work", what do you mean?
Mary
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19 years ago
A very good point.
Yes, it was Trix.
I was given a set for my birthday, and before bedtime had followed the instructions to build a simple crane. Next morning, my randomly placed nuts and bolts had all been re-done with the bolt heads on the outside - but only on one side of the model. My Dad had left a message that I should teach myself how to make the other side right too. And so I did.
The Trix is long gone, and so is the Meccano that replaced it... but I still have the *real* birthday present.
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ahhhhhhhh. I vaguely remember seeing a set like that, had no idea it was that old. Sure wouldnt want to fall on it in mid construction :/
NT
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No - but I wonder how many people did? Does anyone here of the age of, shall we say, wisdom remember any such accidents?
Mary
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The rushlights, not the grandchildren......
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They detain small rodents.
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The idea is that it plays for a short while then self-destructs. The candle burns down to the first piece of string, which releases the elastic band and pulls out the plastic tab to start the music. The candle burns down to the second piece of string which releases the trap and stops the music - permanently.
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No. They don't make interesting pictures. Do you really want to see one? A rushlight, that is. They've long and very, very thin. So is one of the grandchildren.
Mary
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And then what?
Mary
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I understood that after reading the website. I didn't realise that the purpose was to stop the noise. I do it by jumping on it. But I do admit to playing it to Spouse and sons frequently first, to see them wince. The option of jumping is theirs, they're simply not imaginative enough.
Mary
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(whose post has disappeared) for a smashing thread - before it drops off the bottom of my screen.
Mary
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I'll do some searching.
Presumably your products are completely traditional Mary....
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We've still got one that I caught nearly three years ago - I was going to release her in the woods when the weather improved, but she settled in and seems to be happy.
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Of course. Made by time-honoured methods.
All of them :-)
I'd have to be so far away from a rushlight to take a camera picture that it would be difficult to see on a picture. I try to scan things were possible but my scanner bed is too short.
Mary
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I think some of those early sets stuck around for a very long time, at least until the demise of meccano and its popular replacement by lego. I know when I saw one it struck me as a rather odd design. But the thought of falling on one... nasty.
NT
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The thought of a car accident doesn't stop me from driving - and I've had a nasty motor accident. If we thought about all the potential accidents waiting to happen we'd do nothing but lie in bed.
And more people die in bed than anywhere else ...
I'd still like to know if any accidents with Bayko DID happen or if they're just in the mind of obsessive paranoics :-)
Mary
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