Spiders and cameras

**SystemRat** · 21-01-08, 08:36 PM

Is there any simple method of discouraging our eight legged friends from setting up home across the lens of my cameras

I have a few cameras and the spiders love them. I clean the web off during the day and there all webbed up again next morning.

I’ve just given one a really good clean and sprayed the housing with surface spray which should slow them up till it washes off.

**fandtm666** · 21-01-08, 08:45 PM

use the mortine outside spray (pump action in a green bottle) works for 3 months

**intelliGEORGE** · 22-01-08, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by fandtm666

use the mortine outside spray (pump action in a green bottle) works for 3 months

True, also spray the walls around the camera, they don't have a chance to get to it, let alone make their web.

**SystemRat** · 22-01-08, 10:47 PM

Thanks – So far so good no spiders.

I will have to pass this on to a friend who has a PTZ mounted on a light tower.

It’s really annoying looking out through cob webs on that and a pain to clean. Plan B was to setup a wire grid connected to 24 volts around the lens opening which might work but spray is simpler.

**mobsta** · 13-06-09, 10:27 AM

would the chemicals in the spray eventually corrode the housings?

**intelliGEORGE** · 13-06-09, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by mobsta

would the chemicals in the spray eventually corrode the housings?

No as the housings are generally made from aluminium and are powder coated. Unlike conventional liquid paint, powder coating is applied electrostatically and is then cured under heat and doesn't require any solvent to keep the binder and filler parts in a liquid suspension form.

Whereas if you we using cheaper painted housings then I would say yes it would probably eat away at the paint over time.