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06-12-2007, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
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Summer time bugs...solutions???
I was just out in my garage with all the lights on putting together and breaking in my new compressor...and I have bugs and moths EVERYWHERE!!! It's driving me nuts!!
What are you doing about summer time bugs in your garage/shop? I need a solution to cut down on the population...
HELP! 
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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06-12-2007, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Maple Grove, MN
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Put a window air conditioner in the wall/window. I did, and was very happy I did. Both for comfort temperature wise and for bugs.
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Alex Peterson
RV6A N66AP 1700+ hours
KADC, Wadena, MN
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06-12-2007, 10:03 PM
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Bug zapper!
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Dan Checkoway RV-7
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06-12-2007, 10:07 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Estacada, OR
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Use the shop vac.
Couple years ago, we had a tremendous number of flies. Every morning I would fire up the shop vac & suck up about 20 or so flies, many of them while they flew near the flourescent lights.
Another RV builder had the same problem & found the same solution.
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06-12-2007, 10:16 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Williamsburg, IA
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Chad, I agree. We put in a small window air conditioner and just close things up if bugs or heat are a problem and keep banging away in comfort. No bugs and we can keep cool when it gets hot out. I just picked one up from Wal-Mart for about $200 and it works fine. Well worth the investment in my opinion.
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John Roberts
RV-7A - Fuselage
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Numbers 6:24 - The LORD bless thee, and keep thee
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06-13-2007, 04:48 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Asheville, NC
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Originally Posted by dan
Bug zapper!
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You forgot to mention the 6-pack, Dan ! 
They are a pair, Y'know.
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Bill Pendergrass
ME/AE '82
RV-7A: Flying since April 15, 2012. 850 hrs
YIO-360-M1B, mags, CS, GRT EX and WS H1s & A/P, Navworx
Unpainted, polished....kinda'... Eyeballin' vinyl really hard.
Yeah. The boss got a Silhouette Cameo 4 Xmas 2019.
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06-13-2007, 06:43 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Maple Grove, MN
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Originally Posted by dan
Bug zapper!
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Oh, Dan, you must be from southern CA! Bug zappers are good sport, for sure, but they are about like spittin' in the ocean around places like here and elsewhere.
Best way to kill bugs here is to go fly, I usually kill several thousand on each flight.
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Alex Peterson
RV6A N66AP 1700+ hours
KADC, Wadena, MN
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06-13-2007, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: TexaRado
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Bats!
Put in a bat cave in the back yard!
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06-13-2007, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
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The window unit A/C is a great idea, and I've thought about it many times. I don't think I have the capacity on the garage circuit to add a window unit with all the lights on, and run the compressor. It's already as high as I'm comfortable with. I don't know the wiring from the garage to the box since I didn't build the house, and I'm not about to take a chance with overpowering the lines.
A bug zapper would never fly (pun intended) with my wife. 
What else ya got?
Oh, I do like the bat cave idea!!
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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06-13-2007, 07:55 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
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Originally Posted by AlexPeterson
Bug zappers are good sport, for sure, but they are about like spittin' in the ocean around places like here and elsewhere.
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I agree with Alex - grow up in Minnesota, where the mosquito is the state bird, and anywhere else you live will seem insect free! 
(Texans think everything is so big down here, but they've got nothin' to compare with BWCA bugs!)
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Paul F. Dye
Editor at Large - KITPLANES Magazine
RV-8 - N188PD - "Valkyrie"
RV-6 (By Marriage) - N164MS - "Mikey"
RV-3B - N13PL - "Tsamsiyu"
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Dayton Valley Airpark (A34)
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