Date:         Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:45:41 -0400
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
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From:         "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Re: FFFFFFrydaye Re: Cleaning up coolant
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Actually, it's not that hard to find the mice, you just have to look in the
right places. Use this as a reference:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/oct99/mice15.htm


TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
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85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Walker [SMTP:jwalker@BAMA.UA.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:07 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      FFFFFFrydaye Re: Cleaning up coolant
>
> "Anthony L."Leaky" Mourkas" queried:
> > Does anyone have a good method of cleaning up the subflooring/soundboard
> > underneath the carpet which has absorbed some coolant due to a rear
> > heater leak?
>
> yes. there is only one substance known to man that will
> displace the coolant absorbed in the foam padding under the
> carpet:
>
> mouse urine.
>
> yup. that's right. trouble is, it is very very hard to
> obtain, and you have to catch about 50 of them little
> suckers and squeeze the dickens out of them to get enough to
> counteract/displace about 1/2 quart of coolant.
>
> but you put a couple of ounces of mouse/mice urine into your
> carpet, and believe you me, you won't be smelling that
> coolant ANYmore. :)
>
> unca joel
> kicking the pot on Fryedaye. :)
>
> The above statements are in no way to be considered a
> reflection of anything
> useful or semi-intelligent. Use at your own risk. No
> warranty expressed or implied. Danger: may be hazardous to
> your carpet. :)