Oh, I'm not worried about that Ed. We're old pals me and the rodents. They keep me company while sanding... There are also numerous spiders that decend in the wee hours and roam around on my bench. I figure its good company and they keep the workshop free of those horrible centipedes.

I'd like to see them ROUS pass some carbon fiber while they're at it. Actually, the use of it would be very much like carbon/balsa/carbon formers are used in F3A - there would be no rice to be seen unless lightening holes were cut into the formers. And if there were, one could use a rim around the lightening hole.

In the tropics were we used to once have a house, it was quite amazing to see the termites - amazing creatures. They could bore straight through reinforced rebar concrete to make it from one house to another. Then, once there, they would proceed to chomp on anything organic. Your couches and tables would literally be in bits within weeks. Over the years we learned some lessons - no wood, no fabric. Glass, metal and as little plastic as possible. Even the metal was a problem - but that was the salty air. Glass was really the only material that would last. But its pretty uncomfortable to sleep on it...

David.