>>>I had a weighing station app running at several machines in the field (literally) near a wheat & corn silos. The mice actually prefer printers - the case is plastic, and easier to dig into. I've seen a brand new Epson P300 (or something like that, I'm bad with names) which was literally destroyed by mice. Its motherboard was the ugliest piece of filth I saw.
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>>Dragan;
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>>It is well known that mice are very moral and family oriented creatures ? they mate with one mouse for life. I can see why they preferred the ?motherboard?.
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>Because it's warm :). It was a dot matrix buzzer, and these guys were printing about three sheets of triple paper per truck or trailer, which kept the insides quite warm. And they had chads galore to munch.
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>Another case was an aluminium frames factory, which was out in the fields. In October, when the last of the crops was finished, the mice would swarm into the plant. One has found that one of the machines had a slot vacant (modem taken out) - the piece of tin (what's it called? we called it "slepac" - "the blind one") to close the back of the house was missing. It has chopped the three tiny wires which go into the axle of the disk. Our HW guru examined the cuts under a magnifying lens, and said he didn't have any tool which can produce such a clean and neat cut.

Dragan;

When I was 12 years old my brother and I were watching TV and we would from time to time smell something indescribable. After a few hours of this I began searching for the source. I noticed it seemed to come from the refrigerator, as each time the fan/compressor came on the order was evident. I lifted the top of the old Lyon refrigerator, and found a dead mouse. The mouse was decapitated with the body behind the fan and the head in front of the fan. Oil from the fan (this was a 1930’s machine) covered the remains of the mouse. This was the source of the order! I cleaned up the “event” and told my mother. Next time the refrigerator fan/compressor came on all was well.

How could such a little creature create such a stench? Only Mickey knows! :)

Tom