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yoko said:
Doesn't sound like fun Blues Blues

But thanks for dealing with all this stuff so this can be a place I enjoy visiting !
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For just $11 a month, you can help a moderator keep his refrigerator stocked with beer.

Won't you open your hearts and wallets to help keep this vanishing breed from disappearing?

The IPA Fund. Thanks to you, it works for all of us.
 
Blues said:
For just $11 a month, you can help a moderator keep his refrigerator stocked with beer.

Won't you open your hearts and wallets to help keep this vanishing breed from disappearing?

The IPA Fund. Thanks to you, it works for all of us.
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I need a commercial with moderators left outside in the cold shivering and not well taken care of.... while this plays in the background


I would also like to see some one unchaining these moderators and handing them a beer


You never gave us an address to send payment hahahaha
 
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Blues said:
They may provide amusement, but they, bug zappers, are pretty useless according to most reports...

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I'd agree; for outdoor use.

I believe Yoko was talking about an electric flyswatter, though, which is a different animal (no UV light to attract bugs, so you're only swatting the bugs you aim for).

In the warmer months, I have both a bug zapper, and a Katchy (it uses a UV light to draw bugs close, coupled with a small fan that sucks them into the trap and blows them onto a sticky pad); indoors.

What I found was that the bug zapper's grid is too wide for the small gnats and no-see-ums. The Katchy is not strong enough for the bigger bugs. By having both, it takes care of any flying bugs that get into the house.

*** If you buy/eat bananas often, and have issues with fruit flies around the bananas or a fruit bowl, placing the Katchy next to them, works really well. Unlike the bug zapper, it doesn't explode bug guts everywhere, but does an amazing job of catching all the small flying bugs.
 
bluemax_1 said:
I'd agree; for outdoor use.

I believe Yoko was talking about an electric flyswatter, though, which is a different animal (no UV light to attract bugs, so you're only swatting the bugs you aim for).

In the warmer months, I have both a bug zapper, and a Katchy (it uses a UV light to draw bugs close, coupled with a small fan that sucks them into the trap and blows them onto a sticky pad); indoors.

What I found was that the bug zapper's grid is too wide for the small gnats and no-see-ums. The Katchy is not strong enough for the bigger bugs. By having both, it takes care of any flying bugs that get into the house.

*** If you buy/eat bananas often, and have issues with fruit flies around the bananas or a fruit bowl, placing the Katchy next to them, works really well. Unlike the bug zapper, it doesn't explode bug guts everywhere, but does an amazing job of catching all the small flying bugs.
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Keep it up, Max, and I'm going to put "Pedant" under your avatar. Don't test me. 🤣

(You know I'm just teasing you, right? Right? I don't want to have to sleep with both eyes open. I already have to deal with a Sicilian wife.)
 
This stuff works pretty good to fill in a section on the deck that needed a bit of repair. Of course, now it'll rain before it sets.

(I used walnut which blended in decently with the deck color.)

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Blues said:
This stuff works pretty good to fill in a section on the deck that needed a bit of repair. Of course, now it'll rain before it sets.

(I used walnut which blended in decently with the deck color.)

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Stuff is great. Also works good for if you have stripped out threads in a door hinge. You can fill in the hole. Let it dry, and just drill the screws back where they were. It should hold fine. You can also use epoxy or some other such.
 
Blues said:
Yeah, that's one of the recommended usages on the package, and from the reviews it appears to work decently.

(I usually fill the hole with toothpicks which I break off in the hole. 🤣 )
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Hey that works great too! I forgot about that trick.. nice. You literally just need the hole filled enough for friction to do its magic. Even better. You can get a wood glue like titebond and fill it like halfway and fill it in with as many toothpicks as possible like you said. That is probably stronger than trim is normally.
 
beeinak said:
Not for wasps, but the mosquito magnets are phenomenal for skeeters (and some black flies). The propane along with attractant and having them battery operated for the fan is super convenient. We use 2 by the cabin and 1 at the house. My neighbor loves it because it reduces the skeeters so much.
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One of the homemade mosquito traps I saw on YT, was actually pretty ingenious/cool.

Guy rigged up one of those large 30" industrial fans, with a mesh screen on the back. Took a 2 liter of the cheapest soda pop, and placed it a foot or 2 behind the fan, with the cap juuust a bit loose.

The bottle vents CO2 (a yeast + sugar water mix will do the same), which mosquitoes are drawn to, then they get sucked onto the mesh, by the fan.

He used a spray bottle of alcohol to spritz the bugs on the mesh, before turning the fan off (kills them on contact), then removes the mesh (which he attached with magnets), and shakes off all the bugs for lizards and other things to eat (as opposed to spraying the bugs with pesticide, the alcohol evaporates, leaving the bugs safe for lizards and whatever, to eat).

The trap caught hundreds of skeeters in his yard, with minimal collateral damage (only a few moths amongst the hundreds of skeeters).

He then placed the fan by the dog kennel. Kept his dog cool, and unmolested by mosquitoes. Brilliant.
 
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