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| xrunner:
--- Quote from: bd139 on October 23, 2023, 06:30:45 pm ---I saw this thread and was hoping that you would post that image :-DD --- End quote --- I'm glad I took that pic, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it. :-DD |
| Calambres:
Quite recently I had a big ants infestation inside my automatic door bell. It was very labour intensive to remove the little suckers, make it to work again and fill the cavity with solid bug killer product. I'm sure they're there again! ::) |
| Halcyon:
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| Neomys Sapiens:
I once found a small, dead bird in a fuse panel mounted under the bar of a local cellar disco. The cable duct leading to/from it was so stuffed that nothing could have passed this way. But the double sheetmetal door in front of it was only nearly closed most of the time because it had suffered some distortion and was very hard to close correctly, to say nothing of locking it. Behind that door, the covers over the rows of circuit breakers were missing. So it must have come in by the door or backdoor, hopped in through the incompletely closed doors...and got electrocuted. It was already mummyfied beyond any possibility of identification. I bagged it and filed it along with my revision report. |
| Brumby:
I have an open reel tape deck that was buried in the garage for a while. When I pulled it out one day, I had a look inside to see a full-on colony. I felt like spraying a fire house at the blighters, but thought better of that idea. Instead, I sat it out in the sun with a tarpaulin over it to make things a bit toasty, but not excessively so. The theory was that the ants would vacate to somewhere less "tropical". I came back later that day and, indeed, they had vacated, taking all the eggs with them. What was left was comfortably dealt with using a brush and some isopropyl alcohol. Patience for the win! Needs a little TLC and component replacement - which seems typical for the model as there is a component "kit". I'll get there one day. ::) |
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