Jack Rye wrote:

So you have a bug problem. Ok here is the only and best way to kill those
pesky little disease ridden scum sucking varmints. Seal up your boat and
run a 4 stroke gasoline engine. Small gasoline 4 stroke generators work the
best. You can rent them by the 1/2 day, or just borrow one. Then just walk

....

Cockroach eggs hatch between 5 to 7 weeks. You will need to repeat this
trick a few times.


Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?


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"Cardinal Bill" wrote in
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Jack Rye wrote:

So you have a bug problem. Ok here is the only and best way to kill
those
pesky little disease ridden scum sucking varmints. Seal up your boat and
run a 4 stroke gasoline engine. Small gasoline 4 stroke generators work
the
best. You can rent them by the 1/2 day, or just borrow one. Then just
walk

...

Cockroach eggs hatch between 5 to 7 weeks. You will need to repeat this
trick a few times.


Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?


--
To know Edina is to reject it.
-- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Election"


One extra Oxygen molecule.

Calif Bill wrote:

One extra Oxygen molecule.

I guess I was looking at it from the angle of:
1. No exhaust odor.
2. Carbon dioxide isn't particularly healthy to breath, even with the
extra oxygen atom in the molecule. :-)

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Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?

One extra Oxygen molecule.

But it's not available is it? I thought it would be bound up and unusable.
We spray it on a fire to choke it out so I figured it may have oxygen but
it's not available. For that matter, water has oxygen too doesn't it? But
you can't breathe it since it's not available.

I may be wrong ... I'm just wondering.

Vito wrote:
Keith wrote:

I've never had a roach problem on a boat before, but have got one now. ...
Any ideas?


Boric acid powder.

This stuff works better than anything I have ever seen. 4 parts Boric
Acid powder, 2 parts flour and 1 part cocoa powder (like Hersey's) and
spread it liberally around the boat, under cabinets and things. I know
this is ridiculous to say but don't let it get wet. It will make a
mess. I know one person who used this in their apartment and it cleaned
out the entire building. It takes a few weeks to work though.

You can get the same results with Roach-Prufe but this will be cheaper.

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?


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To know Edina is to reject it.
-- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Election"


One extra Oxygen molecule.

In a chicken breeding operation the people that sex chickens kill the males
by throwing them in a bucket with a chunk of dry ice - the vapor kills the
young chicks very effectively. Life is short and thankless for most male
chicks.

Mark Browne

"Dale" wrote in message
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This stuff works better than anything I have ever seen. 4 parts Boric
Acid powder, 2 parts flour and 1 part cocoa powder (like Hersey's) and
spread it liberally around the boat, under cabinets and things. I know
this is ridiculous to say but don't let it get wet. It will make a
mess. I know one person who used this in their apartment and it cleaned
out the entire building. It takes a few weeks to work though.

Heard a variation on that theme: use boric acid and powdered sugar, put in
bottle caps to keep from spreading around. They love the sugar so swarm to
it, and it looks and feels like the BA...

L8R

Skip, not having to try any of those, only having the big ones here :{))

You can get boric acid very cheap at the Home Depot. It is sold as carpet
treatment for fleas in a half gallon jug. I put a liberal dose under my kitchen
and bathroom cabinets when we remodeled and I haven't seen a bug, ant or
anything. It is well sequestered there so I am not worried about the dog but
that is a classic hiding place for roaches.

x-no-archive:yes "Paul" wrote:

Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?

One extra Oxygen molecule.

But it's not available is it? I thought it would be bound up and unusable.
We spray it on a fire to choke it out so I figured it may have oxygen but
it's not available. For that matter, water has oxygen too doesn't it? But
you can't breathe it since it's not available.

I may be wrong ... I'm just wondering.

Carbon dioxide (from dry ice) is a simple asphyxiant. If it displaces
the oxygen in the air it will kill you, but it takes quite a bit of
it. You can be exposed to 30,000 ppm for 15 minutes and still be OK.

Carbon monoxide at 1500 ppm may lead to death, and the 15 minute
exposure limit is 35 ppm for an hour. This is because without the
extra oxygen molecule, CO has a 200 to 300 times great affinity for
hemoglobin than oxygen does. So even if there is enough oxygen
present, the CO will kick it off the hemoglobin and you will die. So
it isn't just a simple asphyxiant any more.



grandma Rosalie

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:58:05 GMT, "Mark Browne"
wrote:


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Errr....why not just go buy a chunk of dryice, toss it in and close the
boat up?
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In a chicken breeding operation the people that sex chickens kill the males
by throwing them in a bucket with a chunk of dry ice - the vapor kills the
young chicks very effectively. Life is short and thankless for most male
chicks.


I've hooked a small pipe to a CO2 tank, and probed small containers of
grain. Screw the top back on, and see no weevil, hear no weevil, and
best yet, eat no weevil.

Small concentration are lethal to many, many critters.