Chewed wires

[BJoe]

We've been having issues with some fuzzy little squatters of late and they got to the wires on my Vaterra Ascender K-5, chewing up the servo lead and battery leads on the battery and receiver:evil:

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I'm going to just use electrical tape for now and if I have to change out the ESC, I have the XL-5 that came with my 4-Tec 2.0 (put a 2 pole VXL in it) and will heat shrink the battery wires and eventually the servo wire as well. Until we can get rid of these little bastards, is there something I can put on wires wires to make then bitter to them?



I'm beginning to think we need a cat or some sort of terrier at this point:x

 

[Voodoobrew]

We get the electric rat zapper that plugs in to the wall. Then threw dry dog food in it. I'm pretty happy with them.

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[Voodoobrew]

They make bitter sprays for kids thumbsucking and dogs but no idea if it works on rats.

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[ferp420]

ive had good luck with dish soap and tapatio red pepper hot sauce

 

[HumboldtEF]

Man when I first read this I was imagining that the "furry little squatters" were puppies or kittens then I saw the zapper comment lol.

Maybe you can box up the truck and put it somewhere out of reach.

Or... build a big rat trap that you can park the Vaterra in or bait a trap with some wire.

I'll let myself out.

 

[Voodoobrew]

Lol

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