On 04/30/2017 09:09 AM, rickman wrote:
On 4/30/2017 4:31 AM, wrote:
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.
Why can't you treat the laptop the same way you are treating the rest of
the place?
I've never had them, thank God, but I have seen info about them and the
temperature thing is supposed to be for real. It is a way to treat your
entire apartment in fact as insecticides don't work very well. It seems
to be hard to get the chemicals into the spaces where the bugs hide.
I had a squirrel living in a corner of my garage some years ago, and it
brought bed bugs that crawled up the pipe into a bedroom. They're
miserable, but we had no problems getting rid of them using Permethrin
spray in some quantity plus diatomaceous earth swept into the cracks in
the wood floor and under the moulding.
Since you can't afford to risk the computer, I'd probably just put it
on a Permethrin-treated tray and use it like that for a few months. A
bit of permethrin on the keyboard would probably also be a win. It's
pretty safe stuff, especially when it's had a chance to dry, and it
lasts a long time.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
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