Posted on 08/17/2013 5:27:15 PM PDT by virgil283
You can also spray them with just about anything. Windex kills ants. The other day I killed a cricket by spraying it with Lysol.
PAM is great for snow shovels too when it’s a wet,heavy snow.
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Keep this handy pH chart of acids and bases.
http://i.imgur.com/ulTYcl2.png
The two best common household cleaners are pure ammonia in solution with water, which is very basic at around pH 11; and white vinegar, which is acidic, at pH 4.5-5.
If you need milder cleaners mix them with a buffer solution to make them less harsh. An easy buffer solution is made by mixing white vinegar with baking soda (pH 9), waiting until it has stopped fizzing. It will make acids less acidic and bases less basic.
Bleach makes a superb sanitizer, but liquid bleach takes up a lot of space and is hazardous to handle. So make your own by getting a box of sodium hydroxide at a hardware store and mixing it with water. A single box can make a LOT of liquid bleach, because liquid bleach is only 6% sodium hydroxide, so is 94% distilled water. (Important, do not get sodium hydroxide *substitute*. Get the real stuff.)
If you have raw meat that is either not too fresh and/or tough as shoe leather, thin slice it, then put it in enough water to cover with a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in it, for one hour, no more or less. After it is done, rinse it very thoroughly, soak it for a minute or two in white vinegar water, then rinse it again. It should be very tender, with a little residual foaming when it is cooked, but with a strong sauce it will be delicious.
Original sugared Coca-Cola has a pH of 2.8, and while some people use it to clean car battery terminals, its real forte is in dissolving rust. Just leave rusty parts to soak in it for a day or two, and they come out bright and shiny.
You can make a solution from purple cabbage leaves and boiling distilled water that you can use to indicate if something is acidic or basic, and to some extent how strong it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ArCiQwSMY
Hydrochloric acid has a pH of about 1.0 Ordinary liquid toilet bowl cleaner is about 23% hydrochloric acid. Liquid drain cleaner has a pH of about 14.
I’ve been using sticky notes to clean out the keyboard for years. I didn’t know that other people have had the same idea.
The sticky strip is great for catching cat fur.
too weird i came across utube hacks last night. epent an hour lookking at them. some have great ideas.
I've come up with lots of little tricks like that to move and hold and manipulate things while doing projects alone. Ever had to lift a too heavy thing like a TV up and into place on for instance a wall mount? With three jacks it is a cinch.
I found that Efferdent tablets help remove stains.
so i guess you are a glass half empty kind of guy?
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One could say that. But, seriously, usually these lists (any lists) are pretty beat.
And, this list has some good stuff on it.
Why risk messing up a perfectly good power plug as a flat head screwdriver, that is what the wife’s good silverware knives are for!
Great tip, except for one thing. I have no clue what "luan" is.
Might this be something only available on Mars?
Almost any kind of spray will bring down a bug.
CC
Essentially, it’s thin plywood. I just happened to have a leftover piece in the garage that I cut two squares from.
So does gasoline. It kills them immediately dead. Just don’t smoke when you splash some on them.
ROFLMAO! You probably saw whats called a palmetto bug, or wood roach. The tough, flying beasties were in Houston where I grew up.
and yeah, they are practically indestructible, and almost big enough to ride!
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>>I told her to pull out her cars dipstick and she have the drop she needed.<<
That’s what us Dads are for.
Is that Hoppes gun oil?
Great tip...I have replaced quite a few the years....we had six kids...finally got smart and bought a commerical grade one.....pretty much chew up anything the kids could throw down the sink....
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