From: Joe Scheaffer (jsinvent@charter.net)
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 10:50:25 PST
Lots of good info here:
http://www.gamagoat.com/
"Mark J. Blair, NF6X" wrote:
> Do any of y'all know where I can get some suitable paint for touching up
> the light blue on my M561 Gama Goat's Detroit 3-53 engine? The local
> auto parts shop didn't have any engine paints that matched it well. I'm
> guessing that it's probably a standard color that was common on Detroits
> of that era.
>
> I'll probably want to replace all of my Goat's filters soon, too. If any
> of y'all have favorite sources, have recommended cross-references, etc.,
> I'd appreciate hearing about them.
>
> After letting it set for a year or two, I'm getting my Gama Goat running
> again. I live out in a rural area, surrounded by citrus groves and open
> fields. Various rodents are very common out here, and they love to nest
> inside vehicles. They make nests out of large sticks, insulation chewed
> off the insides of the vehicles, dog turds, various greenery, etc. Once
> they move in, the crap and pee all over everything, and fight off
> boredom by chewing on any any convenient wires. They chewed up the
> wiring in my Bobcat badly enough that it was immobilized until I made
> repairs. Opening the hood on my Goat, I found that the space between the
> fan and radiator is packed with sticks and greenery. It's gonna take me
> hours to clean it out enough to even try cranking the engine. Luckily,
> the only chewed wire I've seen so far is the spark plug wire for the air
> box heater, and that's not critical here because it never gets cold
> enough to need it.
>
> So, can anybody suggest ways to keep them out of my vehicles and/or die
> painful deaths? I cannot use poisons, because my dogs would be too
> likely to catch and eat poisoned rats, nosh on their poisoned corpses,
> etc. Eradicating the local rat population is an impossibility, because
> there's just way too much land around here that's very hospitable to
> them. Thus, I think my only remaining option is to convince them to live
> somewhere other than inside my vehicles.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x@nf6x.net>
> Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/
> GnuPG public key available from my web page.
>
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