This is going to look odd on the invoice

[David2452]

If your heater has been stood for a while or a stored used one you buy then check this out, maybe impossible on a boat but I just removed a load of chewed up paper from the exhaust and combustion chamber of a non starting Webasto that a customer bought on EBay, Mouse / Shrew nest? I would have suspected packing material but it still had a metre of exhaust pipe attached and that had to be "peeled" off.

 

[nigelmercier]

Wasps?

 

[kolster]

I had wasps starting to nest in the space between the sliding hatch and the garage, slid the hatch back and got stung on the hand, thought it was just bad luck and went below and did some work for a few hours, returned the next day and got stung on the face, shut the hatch quickly and went home and bought some wasp killer powder.

 

[Concerto]

Some years ago I had a van that had lost power. It took a while to find the cause, but the garage did chuckle. A mouse had made a nest in the air filter and almost completely block all air flow.

 

[Daydream believer]

A local boats crew arrived for a race to find a cluster of bees on the binnacle.
They had to wait for a bee keeper to come & get them, Which he did & was full of thanks for letting him have them because they were proper honey bees not the more common wild bees

 

[oldbilbo]

While doing some needed servicing on my old Mazda 6, I opened the air cleaner box and discovered some mice-like critturs had used the space as a food storage. The volume was completely crammed with lime tree seeds - s was the intake pipe.

Never did discover whether the beasties were Pygmy Shrew or Field Mice, but it may explain why t'neighbour's cats took to sitting on the parked car's bonnet at night.

 

[huldah]

I have had control lines chewed and formed into a circle, probably squirrels, plus loads of nuts. However, the same thing happened in my kitchen a few weeks ago. The rats had cut through the lime mortar!