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Jon Elson

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This is all I got, I cannot afford a new one. I can't work because of my
eyesight but it isn't quite enough to give me disability, even though I
would not be able to run a cash register now.

Anyway, we got hit with bedbugs. Two schools got closed over it. It was an
epidemic or whatever.

Anyway, my laptop is infested. I have researched and found that when
exposed to temperatures of 135 F for like 45 minutes it kills them and
their eggs. The government and the companies who do this assure us that
this is safe. It probably is if not running.

I just checked the oven, the lowest it will go is 170 F. Is that safe for
a non, running (at the time) computer ? Could it damage the screen if by
nothing else but expansion and contraction ?

We are about to bring in new matress and whatever, but anything happening
to this laptop IS NOT AN OPTION.
Have you ever left that laptop in a car on a hot day? Did it survive?
If so, then it probably experienced temperatures well over 120 F. I don't
know about the 135 F, though, that is getting pretty hot. I've heard rumors
that a car can get to 160 - 170 F in summer sun. I have doubts a laptop
would survive that.

Jon