Removing the wings

[Dano"T"]

I decided to remove the wings from the floatplane and store it in the pole barn instead of doing a float change this year. I have another plane to fly so I thought it would be easier. I hate the end of float season

[astjp2]

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The last time I took my wings off for winter, I got more damage than if I would have left them on. I wont ever do that again if I can help it. Tim

[Dano"T"]

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Mine went better....wings are off, plane is safe and sound....I needed to give things a good looking over so I'm glad I did it. I probably won't next time....it was a bit of a PITA....know what I mean.....anyways...all done.

[Dano"T"]

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[TimHicks]

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Wow!

[Forrest Barber]

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Good job.... I may appreciate our little Winter here in Ohio.

[Robert Lees]

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Don't forget to pickle the engine.

[mike lutz]

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the classic car guys put bounce fabric softener dryer sheets in there cars for off season storage,might be worth putting some in wings and fusealage.They say it will keep mice out of the insides.I myself have never tried this,but a freind of mine puts them in his 1964 Studybaker and swears by them.
Mike

[Larry Lyons]

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the classic car guys put bounce fabric softener dryer sheets in there cars for off season storage,might be worth putting some in wings and fusealage.They say it will keep mice out of the insides.I myself have never tried this,but a freind of mine puts them in his 1964 Studybaker and swears by them.
Mike

Me too! We use them for winter boat storage, work so well you think something must be wrong. Will keep mice out for a year but if you are going to leave the car/plane/boat in storage for more then a year replace the sheets at least annually. No musty smell,no spiders, flys, etc. either if it is fairly tight. Have been using them for winter boat storage for several years now and have used them in motor homes and hot rods with no failure other then the one time they did not refresh the sheets in a hopped up truck and the second year the mice got in.
Larry

[jim cooper]

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Moth balls around the airplane. Im told if you sprinkle some around the airplane in the hangar, mice are very offended. JC

[Dano"T"]

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I did use the dryer sheets...one of the guys at deer camp suggested it. I'm going to use it on the other planes too if it works.

[Ron Coleman]

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I have tried all of the above stuff. They seem to work in some vehicles built after the use of plastic, but in machines with mohair or leather or cotton in the seats, nothing short of a 12 gauge will stop mice or rats. It will help if you seal every opening then load the machine with poison, or use vanila laced peanut butter in your traps. I use electronic traps to send the offenders into the nether world because if they leak, the goo is contained in the trap. Many machines built in the late 50's and 60's used wiring which attracted rats and the like. They would eat every bit of the insulation and chew through the copper wires as well. They loved spark plug wires. I have been told that mice can smell the seeds in cotton used in seats and that after digging out the seeds, they use the cotton to build nests. They especially like to carry the cotton up the tail pipe into the manifold, and up into an open cylinder where they urinate, rusting the rings to the walls. I lost a 1939 Studebaker truck, a 1964 Studebaker Daytona hard top V8, a 1948 Studebaker Champion convertable, and a 1970's Honda XL250 to their antics. Racoons are worse. I tried putting pans of water under the wheels. Mice can swim and jump. It would help if I didn't have a grain farm.

RonC
PS I spend about $45. a year for rodent poison.

[mulwyk]

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Ron:
I'm also a big fan of mouse poison.

But one of my dogs, Big Elsa, will eat absolutely anything she finds. We were worried about her getting into the mouse poison...then a neighbor showed us a trick. He puts the poison in an old coffee can and cuts a mouse sized hole in the lid. Mice can get in and enjoy their lunch, but Elsa is not able get at the stuff. Seems to work, after a couple years using the coffee cans, the dog is still healthy, but the mouse population is dwindling.