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Archimedes' Lever

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:26:07 +0000 (UTC), (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In , Archimedes' Lever wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:02:33 -0400, PeterD wrote:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:26:25 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...
This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here
in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up.

They're even getting into the house.

Any convenient solutions?

If a swarm forms indoors, suck them up with a dust buster vacuum cleaner -
squirt some fly spray into the nozzle before switching off,

Do NOT do that! Some vacuums use the air from the vacuum outlet to
cool the motor, and the motor has exposed brushes.

Stupid, untrue claim. Such "air" is POST filter.

Think of debris hitting the brushes, not just flies, idiot. THEN you
will realize the stupidity of the claim you derived with your bent
"common sense" guess of what takes place. ANY air that passes over ANY
motor in ANY vacuum cleaner is POST filter.

The fact that 'fly spray' is usually flammable,

More utter bull****. MAYBE the propellant is a low flammability
propane mix, but even that would be relatively safe.

SNIP from here

The propellant is close enough to entirely liquified hydrocarbon gases.
I would not call that a low flammability mix. Combine that with any
vapors from petroleum distillates, and that sounds risky to me.
Especially if the filter should have any holes that pass through droplets
of the liquid.

- Don Klipstein )

Not even a pop. A twenty millisecond *puff*, at best for *each*
"droplet", which is actually closer to a fine atomized mist particle,
which would have to number in the hundreds of thousands to be effective.