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Insect Killer (lantern style).

Two, or more mosquitoes would carry you away, to drain all the blood from your body where no one would find it. The biggest mosquitoes I've ever seen were at Ft. Greely, Ak. in the early '70s. You could hear their wings flapping as they flew by. They used to joke about installing anti-aircraft guns at the landing field to kill the damn things, to stop them from mating with the Huey copters. :(

The guy that fueled the copters claimed that he pumped 200 gallons of fuel into a 'skeeter' one night, after mistaking it for a Huey on the flight line. ;-)

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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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Michael A. Terrell
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Interesting mod for a bug zapper. It makes it self cleaning. ;)

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Mike

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Michael Kennedy

If you visit the local tip and salvage the 470uF reservoir caps and bridge rectifiers from half a dozen or so TVs/monitors to make your multiplier you can make a *REAL* zapper.

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ian field

Well, then how do you get rid of those pesky fairies that infest the garden, flitting all about in the moonlight?

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z

Well, then how do you get rid of those pesky fairies that infest the garden, flitting all about in the moonlight?

Easy - limit yourself to one bottle of Jack Daniel's per night.

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ian field

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The Flotron Mosquito Power Trap.I have seen them for sale before at Home Depot stores.When I was in Vietnam in 1964, there was a mosquito net mounted on some round iron bars on my bunk, everybody over there had those mosquito nets.Sometimes, whomever was maintaining the generators (for electricity) they would be switiching over from one generator to another generator, sometimes, no electricity for about ten or fifteen minutes.The heat and humidity over there was something else, all day and night long.Between generators, I couldn't sleep.First chance I got, I went to a store and I bought an electric fan, I tied the fan to the head of my bunk. (behind the mosquito net) After I did my year over there and I was packing my duffle bag getting ready to come home,,,, Who wants my electric fan, for free?

I remember when I was a kid and the mosquito spraying truck was rolling around our neighborhood, us kids always ran behind (or rode our bicycles) right up close behind that truck spraying the whole neighborhood with big clouds of DDT.I can still smell that DDT now. cuhulin

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cuhulin

An old PC fan is useful for killing larger insects like moths and straggler wasps that come indoors after dark - just mount the fan close to a light and the fly into the blades.

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ian field

There have only been two uses for A bug zapper that I know are worthwhile. One is removing bugs from inside a screened porch. The other is to hang one with the bottom removed over a pond to feed the fish. They are pleasant to watch on a Summer afternoon though. I especially enjoy seeing knats fly through them and come out the other side with a smoke trail following them.

Jimmie

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Jimmie D

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