I ran a pair of jeans, a tee-shirt, socks and undies in our dryer at high-heat for fifteen minutes. According to my IR thermometer, the duct on the dryer vent only got up to 87F. That wasn't going to work to kill off ticks!
Disgusted, I looked at the dial for the various modes and saw one that I had never noticed before: Sanitize.
Well, why not?
The LED read-out told me that the sanitize cycle was a 90 minute long. A half hour into the cycle I checked the dryer vent the the thermometer and it read 115F. Now we were cooking...or on the brink of it.
Rain
We picked up another inch.
Stampeding snails
Fortunately, I had a head-start and was able to outrun them.
Mystery currant bush
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| What ever kind of currant it is, it looks like it will be very productive. The large, well-formed clusters of flowers suggest red currants. |
You may find the "Hot Box Disinsector" at softsolder.com of use. They acquired a colony of bedbugs on a trip, and he reported on the trials and tribulations of dealing with them. Probably cheaper to build and run than the dryer.
ReplyDeleteHey Joe, not sure what kind of IR thermometer you have, but they don't always read what you point at. Mine is one of the 'pistol' type with a laser pointer. I found that some materials that I wouldn't consider 'reflective' will not read properly. While checking A/C performance, I was reading the temp of the sheet metal ductwork above my furnace, it kept telling me that the cool-feeling metal was 73 degrees (which happened to be the temp of the room the furnace was in). I stuck a piece of tape on the duct for a couple minutes, and that read a frosty 58.
ReplyDelete1st phase, acquired tick control. We use duct tape, make a loop, sticky side out, big enough to get 3 or 4 fingers in. Blot yourself/clothes, all over, works great. Take clothes off, continue search. Works best with aware wife.
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