The Roach-top thread

[ratdude747]

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my dad suggested filling the bag with CO2 and sealing it, i'm wondering if filling it with freon might be a permanent solution. Not sure if it would hurt the screen or not

Freon? Good luck getting that w/o a licsense. It's a restricted CFC (Also known as r-12).

That's won't kill them anyway... it will make them hibernate, but that's all. My grandpa, a HVAC guy, found out the hard way with wasps.

[goodpsusearch]

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Why not consult a roach-exterminator expert's opinion?

[kc8adu]

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anything that will displace oxygen will do.
i just would not waste r12/22/ect due to the cost.
c02 would do it cheaply.fill bag,empty,then refill.
do roach eggs need oxygen to hatch?

[Time2Retire]

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anything that will displace oxygen will do.
i just would not waste r12/22/ect due to the cost.
c02 would do it cheaply.fill bag,empty,then refill.
do roach eggs need oxygen to hatch?

How about putting it in a cooler with dry ice? This would both freeze them suckers and deprive them of oxygen.

Another thing that I read is to heat suspected items. Usually clothes are mentioned, and it is said to put them in the dryer and heat to 150 F. My dryer has a rack for drying things you want to lay flat, but I think roaches could escape the dryer method before being cooked.

[Uranium-235]

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woulden't dry ice kind of...destroy the motherboard?

[Uranium-235]

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heres a guys response. dosen't sound like a bad idea

http://www.doityourself.com/forum/in...es-laptop.html

[momaka]

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I think heat should work well to kill the roaches and their eggs. After washing the motherboard, put it in the oven at 100C to 105C for 1 to 1.5 hours. This will also dry it faster. No damage will be done at this temperature. Just don't forget to remove the CMOS battery (if there is one)

The plastics - I don't know how much heat they can take in the oven, but I think really really hot water will work for those. Generally, 70C and above will kill most bacteria so I doubt the roach eggs will survive (provided the exposure time is long enough). I think 1 hour in hot water over 70C ought to get rid of them.

That leaves only the LCD display... hot water is definitely not a good idea here and I don't know if the oven will damage it. Perhaps if you set it in the oven at a low temperature, like 80C or so for a few hours. But I have never tried this, so I will warn you that I do not know what the outcome of this will be. If you have an old monitor you don't mind possibly sacrificing for some tests...

[Uranium-235]

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well well here we are again. I found one roach dead inside it after being for 15 or so days in that igloo with an exposed paper towel of that dupont advidon. Found one big dead roach inside it, and a few small ones.

funny things with this top. After taking it apart, down to the MB/Case and screen, it booted fine. Slowly put it back together. When did it stop turning on? touchpad. There was some nibbling on the edge of the touchpad where it hooks into the mb, one of the contacts came unglued and was shorting with another. I was kind of suprised this caused a no-power reaction, instead of a no screen, shutoff in x seconds, or no working touchpad problem. I got the sharpest pair of scissors I could find and cut across right where the contact bends. Essentially cut the contact length in half.

shoved it in, booted. No working touchpad. tried it again. worked! glad the microcontroller or usb (whatever this one uses) didn't fry from the short

also, one of the outerboards caused a turn on-turn off to happen, till I wiggled the cable around and taped it down. Thats a bad sign, Probably a bad cable, and just luck I got it in a good position

Played Fallout 3 on it last night when I finally finished it up, plays better than it does on my GTX 285, even though it takes longer to load

good side: J and M/A didn't have to buy a used $250 motherboard
bad side: this huge asus top has two massive output fans (one cpu, one GPU, GPU runs hotter), that blow out hot stinking roach shit smell, and probably will for the rest of its life

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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lol slow loading times? put an ssd in there man if the second drive bay isnt already filled up.

[Uranium-235]

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the guy won't spend that kind of money :P

[kc8adu]

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you missed one!
it is hiding out in your avatar.looks confused.

[Per Hansson]

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Yea I was going to say the same thing yesterday

[mikeh1]

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I recently got a free PC from Craigslist to refurb and sell, inside was shredded paper and rat droppings from what seemed like a rat's nest. I blasted away at it with an air hose, then doused it with Lysol a few times and then with Febreeze and let it sit outside for a few days. By the time I sold it, it only had a faint smell of Febreeze.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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yea that roach laptop looks like a nightmare. i hope this little country of mine lives up to its reputation of being clean so i wont have to deal with such a severe infestation.

i dont even know what to do. my ez way out wud be to junk the casing and run the system as a skeleton open air test bench system... hahaha~

[Topcat]

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Freon? Good luck getting that w/o a licsense. It's a restricted CFC (Also known as r-12).

Its easy to get without a license...

[Junk Parts]

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This is the time of year to look for those PC's that got screwed up over the winter. People are doing their spring cleaning and they end up just tossing the things to the curb. Now watch what you bring into your home. Most of these things failed because of roaches mice, and rats getting in them. If you have lightning storms in your area it also never hurts to go on a war ride a few days after a big one. You just might find a fine PC with nothing more wrong with it than a blown fuse in its power supply.