YOU didn't built that... the Chinese did!!! 
Posted on 07/20/2012 8:26:40 PM PDT by marktwain
Check this out. It’s the “Bug-A-Salt” housefly shotgun. Eradicate pesky houseflies with ease with this gun that requires no batteries, and simply uses table salt for ammunition. Brilliant! I’m getting one.
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I'd rather get one of these - much cheaper, and I don't have to hunt the suckers down!!
Cuz he’s the original rusted crap eatin fly.....:o)
When I was in grade school we would make tasseled sewing needles and blow them through a straw at those giant palmetto/tree roaches.
Will it work on Red Wasps? I really dislike Red Wasps...
Guess I’m old school. I want a bug killin trebuchet.
They won’t let me have a real one after my threat to lay siege to Ann Arbor.
Black & Decker rechargeable handi vac. Fastest, cleanest and fun ways to get rid of a pest.
An unloaded bb pistol works just fine against flies mosquitoes and spiders. The blast of air knocks them on their ass and there is nothing to clean up but the bug
With really good glass probably about 500 meters.
YOU didn't built that... the Chinese did!!!
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I love this, but was dismayed that he chose to have his product made in China. Guess I won’t be buying one! Should have searched the United States to find someone here to make this. Such a world.
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I love this, but was dismayed that he chose to have his product made in China. Guess I won’t be buying one! Should have searched the United States to find someone here to make this. Such a world.
Cool! The flies were dropping like flies!
I don’t see why you couldn’t use fine blasting sand. Of course, how long would it take to use up #100 of blasting sand unless you drew flies like Zero. (^;
you prolly could, but then again sand doesn't melt...
I have used a sand blaster to etch glass, its a bugger to use and you get sand everyplace on your body...I ended up using my sons welding hat. Put shirt on backwards and tape to body...its fun, but a bugger to clean up from. My son was smarter and made a blasting box to keep the sand under control...
Looks like a pretty jiffy toy, but I can outrange it easily with a rubber band.
I usually wear several rubber bands around my wrist.
They come in handy for bundling the mail, holding cereal box tops down, keeping rolled up sleeves rolled up, and such.
If a fly annoys me (and I do find flies annoying) I just loop a rubber band over the end of an extended index finger, draw the other end back with the other hand, aim down the stretched band like you’d aim an arrow, and release.
With practice I can pick the suckers off up to 8 feet away, and you can adjust impact by how much you stretch the band back and how thick a band you use.
A 3/16” W X 3” band will splatter a house fly all to pieces 5 or 6 ft. away, while one of the 3/8” wide bands will hammer a hornet, wasp, or yellow jacket into submission if you nail him square. Like other dangerous game, you don’t want to just 9!$$ them off!
It takes practice - but you can buy a lot of rubber bands for the price of one of these salt shooters.
He probably chose to have it made in China because he wants to actually make a profit on his invention, and he wanted a quick turnaround. That thing would cost upwards of $200 if it were made here, and good luck finding anyplace with the engineering resources to do it right and to build the tooling without an exhorbitant outlay of cash.
This thing is clearly made by a toy manufacturer such as Early Light, Winson, or Jetta. They have the expertise for this sort of thing. To them, it’s just another Hasbro/Nerf blaster. There isn’t a manufacturer in America that is set up for doing the turn key work that this required.
Must have one!
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