ambient weather WS-2902-RAINSPIKE Bird Spike Kit Instruction Manual
- June 3, 2024
- ambient weather
Table of Contents
ambient weather WS-2902-RAINSPIKE Bird Spike Kit
Suggested Tools
| QTY | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Needle nose pliers |
Included
| Qty | Description | Image (not to scale) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Self-locking Stainless Steel Zip Ties |
– Only one is needed. The other is a spare.
| ****
5| Flexible Silicone Strips|
10| Stainless Steel Spike|
Step 1: Insert Stainless Steel Zip Tie into the Silicone Strips
- Make sure all of the holes on the Silicone Strips, for the Stainless Steel Spikes, are facing the same direction.
Step 2: Make the rain spike strip into a circle and insert the pointed end of the Stainless Steel Zip Tie into the self-locking clip
- DO NOT FULLY TIGHTEN. Leave some slack for Step 4
Step 3: Place the circle over the rain funnel.
Step 4: Using your needle nose pliers, firmly grab the tip of the Stainless Steel Zip Tie sticking through the locking clip. Tighten the Stainless Steel Zip Tie around the funnel by rotating the pliers, with Zip Tie firmly gripped between the pliers, away from the locking clip.
- If your funnel is the same configuration below, with Zip Tie pointing right and holes for Spikes facing up, you would rotate your wrist clockwise.
Step 5: Place the Stainless Steel Spikes into each hole of the Silicone
Strip.
Step 6: Using the pliers, bend the Spikes over the opening of the rain
funnel to prevent birds from nesting inside the funnel. Note, you will need to
apply pressure to the silicone strip to prevent the Spikes from ripping the
silicone material.
Alternate Rain spike bending method
Required Tools
- Combination Square
- Pliers
- Pencil
- Remove ruler from combination square.
- Pencil Mark 1” on handle
- Following the procedure outline below
- Align one end of the bird spike with pencil mark.
- Clamp bird spike against handle of combination square.
- Bend free end of spike against handle – gives you perfect 45-degree angle.
- Completed bent spike should appear as in picture.
- step 7: Install the rain gauge funnel, spikes attached, into the sensor array. Rotate the funnel clockwise to attach to the sensor array. Section 5.3.4 of WS-1900, WS-2000 and WS-2902A manual.
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