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Allagator
Intermediate Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 496
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 12:55 am: | 
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how do you tech's kill the bugs in radio's ???
ive been useing eather !! for the # bug killer !!
but to night i got a Cobra 89 that was full of bugs ( roaches) and eather didnt seem to bother them !!! so its sitting in the old freezer in the shed till morning !!!!
anyone have a faster way to kill the bugs in radios ?????
Thanks !!!
Allagator !! |
Big_l
Junior Member
Username: Big_l
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 7:27 am: |
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Very strange. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 4038
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 7:34 am: |
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Gator,
808's STANDARD POLICY / RULE'S FOR RADIO REPAIR!
RULE #1 ~ NEVER BRING ANY RADIO INTO YOUR HOME without FIRST opening it Outside (Hopefully away from your Home).
RULE #2 ~ If it has CRITTERS of ANY KIND inside the RADIO, the Radio goes in the TRASH!!!!!!!!!!! along with the person you got it from, hopefully 20 miles from your home.
(This is Legal In Illinois as well as other states,) I think.) 
RULE / OPTION #3 ~ OR TAKE A TORCH AND MELT EVERYTHING IN RADIO and this Generally kills them also. 
Your talking about a 5 dollar radio and spending $20.00 to $100.00 or more to get rid of CRITTERS in the Radio and Your House or Barn after you give them FREEDOM.
RULE / OPTION #4 ~ Take it back to where you got it and Give it back or wrap it as a Christmas Present and tell them to store in a nice warm area for Christmas.
Lon
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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1736
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 8:19 am: |
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You an't seen roaches untill you see our FLORIDA ones .... |
Wolverine
Intermediate Member
Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 245
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 9:45 am: |
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No, you mean the "Texas" size roaches that crunch when you step on them, like the one's in the movie, "Men in Black". You can always surround the radio with a bunch of roach motels, if you're desperate, wait them out, and hope for the best. The only problem is, that you flushed them out into your home (Shamefull Thing). Good luck.
Wolverine. |
Allagator
Intermediate Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 497
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 9:46 am: |
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Bruce i used to live in FL !!! LOL
ive seen them babys !!! LOL |
Highlander
Advanced Member
Username: Highlander
Post Number: 667
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 9:46 am: |
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A friend of mine went through this--it was horrible. He had just moved back to IL from Hawaii, where he had been camping out in a mango grove on Mauii. These roaches had gotten inside most of his electronics, and then proceeded to get a foothold in his apartment after he had moved back to IL. What a nightmare! He ended up having to move, and got rid of the problem by bagging each radio in a hefty bag with a bug bomb, then quarenteening the bags for a couple of weeks till all the hatchlings had arrived and expired.
On a side note, this mexican lady that lived in the apartment above the one that got infested claimed that a roach had crawled into her ear while she slept, and that she could feel it crawling around in her head. I never did hear what the outcome of all that was, but it was a pretty horrifying story, to say the least.
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Highlander
Advanced Member
Username: Highlander
Post Number: 668
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 9:50 am: |
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Bruce, I've never been to FLA, but I lived on St. Thomas, US Virgin Isles for a year, and my word, what a horrorshow in the roach department! Those suckers are fast, too! The worst part was when they would take to the air. I am getting the willies just thinking about it. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1738
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 12:06 pm: |
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Yep when they fly it looks like B-17's over Berlin in 1944 ... NO JOKE some are 1.5 INCHES long. |
Ca346
Senior Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 1069
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 12:37 pm: |
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You guys are giving me the WILLIES! In the California foothills all we have to worry about is Tarantula's.... maybe a BlackWidow or two.... well okay maybe a few bats at evening time.... then again there's the neighbor's LLama spitting at people that try and pet it.... maybe I should check the radio in the Garage/Shop???? |
Dindin
Intermediate Member
Username: Dindin
Post Number: 428
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 12:49 pm: |
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Gator,most insects have a natural antifreeze in there system,thats how they survive winter.so the only thing the freezer will do is maybe slow them down.Highlanders suggestion sounded best,trashbag and bugbomb if you really want to keep the radio.And Lons rules really have a lot of merit!Good luck,your gonna need it! |
Af579
Junior Member
Username: Af579
Post Number: 16
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 1:05 pm: |
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The ones here in Florida can move your livingroom furniture around for you when you are sleeping. |
Big_l
Junior Member
Username: Big_l
Post Number: 24
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 1:24 pm: |
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I can't believe what I'm reading ! I agree with 808 my radio will go straight to the trash if that ever happened to me ! Anyways how do those Floridian roaches that big get in a radio ? Please don't answer that, I'm being sarcastic. Can't believe this post got so much feedback, even from me ! lol |
Crafter
Senior Member
Username: Crafter
Post Number: 1028
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 2:01 pm: |
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I use a trash bag and spray inside. Then open it up the next day with can in hand. |
Highlander
Advanced Member
Username: Highlander
Post Number: 669
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 3:16 pm: |
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When we were kids we used to go steam-tunneling here at the UofI campus--there were some big, fast, bright orange roaches in some places down in the tunnels. We learned to stay away from those areas. It was like real life Dungeons and Dragons, with real monsters!
Seriously, the bomb 'em and bag 'em procedure did the trick, and the radios showed no ill effects when they had been cleaned out. I certainly hope I never have to bear witness to such a thing again, I can tell you that. |
Af579
Junior Member
Username: Af579
Post Number: 19
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 4:21 pm: |
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At least I have not seen any in the 2 years we have been here in the house...but then again we are getting ready to move so they could be of some help LOL! |
Allagator
Intermediate Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 498
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 5:06 pm: |
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eather did kill the bugs !!! after the second shot of it in the bag !!!! but its still in the freezer for a few more days to keep the little ones from getting out !!!! i knew i kept that old fridge for some reason !!! LOL
Big 1 you know some of to most crazy post get lots of feedback !!! LOL |
Creator
Member
Username: Creator
Post Number: 93
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 12:35 am: |
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LOL, now I've read everything!!! |
Kilowatt
Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 84
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 7:14 am: |
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Man, I do hate finding roaches in radios!!!
I usually take my "trades" apart on the front porch. If there are any "surprises," I spray the insides of the radio with industrial cleaner. Then, I hose it out in the laundry sink. After that, I let the radio dry out for about 5 days before I fire it up.
I've never had one go bad from this treatment yet, and I've probably done at least 2-300 this way... However, sometimes some of the thermal paste washes away, and I have to add some after the unit dries.
Don't laugh too hard, when I was in the army, we did the same thing with units that cost WAY more than CBs! :-0
Just my two-cents! |
Kilowatt
Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 85
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 7:35 am: |
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My grandfather just told me that his signals unit dipped radios in kerosine to clean them back when when they were hiding from the B-17s over Berlin in 1944... ;-)
Gramps was with the "Prinz Eugen," and says that ya'll should see the Russian roaches. Apparantly, they will actually "bite" humans... Yechhhhh!
BTW,he joind the American army right after the war in 1947, and retired as a major in the signal corps...
He says that their radios were mostly painted steel and bakelite-not plastic, and swears that that is the best way to clean old stuff. |
that Elco guy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 9:31 am: |
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I do not know if you have one, but if you do you have your answer.
If you have one of those devices they sell on late nite TV that sucks all the air out of the plastic bags to prevent freezer burn then you have your answer. Put the radio in one of those plastic baggies and suck all the air out of the bag. Buggies have to breath ya know.
Let the radio sit for a short spell and after they have suffocated to death just shake out their little corpses.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, dismantle the rig afterwards for two purposes. Clean up the mess they made inside. Secondly to remove and destroy any little remaining eggs the buggies may have left behind.
However the best and probably the easiest advise was given earlier. Open up the radio a good distance away from the homestead buildings to check for little buggies BEFORE bringing it into the living environment.
Which brings to mind another precaution....
IF IF you buy beer, juce or sodas in those cardboard cartons open said cartons up well OUTSIDE the house and carry the cans in without cardboard packaging. Little critters have been know to hitch a ride in the cardboard packaging. |
355_westvirgina
Junior Member
Username: 355_westvirgina
Post Number: 14
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 11:41 pm: |
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gater try going to farm supply and get roach bait. put in bag for two weeks keep them worm so they hatch . then vac.them out real good . they will get in the relays and short out the radio "GOOD LUCK" i buy flea market radios thy all get baged 73s |
Mikefromms
Intermediate Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 274
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 7:05 am: |
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I bought a base one time that started smelling when it got hot--the roaches were on the run! Man, how can they hide like that? When things heated up they were scrambling. Turned out to be a very good radio: Teaberry Stalker XX (I believe that XX is right).
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Mikefromms
Intermediate Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 275
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 7:08 am: |
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Why not use an air compressor and blow the bugs out along with any dust that might be in there? It will blow the roach little waste products out as well. I suppose you wouldn't want to use too much air pressure.
mikefromms |
Stealman
Junior Member
Username: Stealman
Post Number: 24
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 1:38 pm: |
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Their a product call maxforce it a gel you put around the opening and in a few day they will be gone |
Allagator
Advanced Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 500
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 3:55 pm: |
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well the old fridge (non working) with a hose run in the door has always worked when eather was applied to the hose !!! but i guess the little guys in ths radio must of liked ther home !!! LOL
Thanks for the info guys !!! bug boms leave a funny smell in radios !!! LOL
Allagator !!!! |
Funtimebob
Intermediate Member
Username: Funtimebob
Post Number: 140
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 2:48 am: |
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worked once upon a time at a low rent housing complex downtown cincy cleaning up the grounds etc. (whole neighborhood torn down about 5 years ago and re-designed) that had Roaches that would fight you over the refridgerator. big 2 2-1/2 inch suckers. |
Kilowatt
Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 92
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 10:46 am: |
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2 1/2 inch roaches! Dang....
I'm glad it was you dealing with those things! I'd have to whip out the .357 if I saw anything that size crawling around my shack... |
Intruder
Junior Member
Username: Intruder
Post Number: 32
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 11:24 am: |
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As a kid I used to tie thread on their legs and
let them fly around till they droped. |
Allagator
Advanced Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 501
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 1:06 am: |
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LOL !!! When i was a kid in FL we used to catch them MONSTERS and put them im a small metal coffee can and drop a M80 down in it !!!!! LOL
made for a nice suprise for my dads GF !!!! LOL
OH i almost forgot about the time we cought a hole bag full !!! the guy down the road didnt think it was funny when he opened his mailbox !!! LOL
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