Confident they could have a better second life through reuse, our resident MacGyver, John Bradburn, kept it on his desk until one day it just hit him. He could swap out the wood pallet layers in the original bat box design with these trays. The pallets proved to be time intensive what with all the cutting and trimming. Now, he could just notch two wood pieces on the sides, enabling him to slide these trays one after another right inside the battery case.
“When I held the circuit tray up the length was about right and the width was perfect,” John recalled. “I figured with some epoxy adhesive applied and sand sprinkled on it to make for a grittier surface, bats would have no problem hanging on.”
He was right. After doing a trial run of the new design, John had consulted with Rob Mies, a world-renowned bat expert. Rob put a little brown bat on it, and sure enough, it hung right on.
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