I have a Truetone D-690 wooden console radio with tiny bug holes. I've heard of people sealing a wood cabinet in plastic with some sort of pesticide- Any recommendations? Will a steel jar lid full of malathion do the trick? I've got it sealed in black plastic and sitting where the sun will hit it.<BR> <P>------------------<BR>

Right on. Probably powder-post beetles, and if so, the holes are exit holes. The beetles live in the wood for up to (as I recall) 20 years and no ordinary insecticide will touch them.<P>------------------<BR>

I'm going to need one big freezer to hold a console cabinet! <IMG SRC="http://antiqueradios.com/forums/smile.gif"><P> Maybe this (Ohio) cold snap will help some! I'm off to practice sublimation.<P>Brad<P><P>------------------<BR>

This is an Australian site, but the bugs and treatment should be the same. There's probably an American site the same that will come up if you google it.

http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Publication ... tions.aspx

I've only had to deal with the critters twice, and that was way before the internet & instant access to the right information.
Back then, I read somewhere that using kerosene or turpentine would work, so I used kerosene & it did kill them off.
I used A LOT of kerosene though, and flooded the timber inside & out repeatedly by brushing the kero onto to the timber and letting it soak in until it would soak in no more
Then over a course of about a week, I placed the timber (it was actually a dressing table drawer & a portable gramophone shipping crate) out in direct sunlight for a couple hours each day until the kero (& smell) were completely gone.
It's probably not the best course of action for a veneered radio cabinet though.

I dunno about you, but I would have been checking for a ball of flames out in the yard every few seconds.

I am from Minnesota now I live in Texas now...

A trick to clean out a bug infested building...
Middle of winter like -20 deg F
Turn off water etc, open up all the windows, let the building freeze for a week
Nothing will be alive; bugs, cockroaches, mice, rats etc etc etc

problem: nobody has a walk in freezer that is that cold

This is a 9 year old thread in which the images and links no longer work. Better off starting a new thread.

Larry

Well that's interesting. I wonder how it got to the top of the forum when I replied 12 hours ago

It went to the top because a spammer posted some junk in it. You then replied. I deleted the spam, but because there are now newer messages, it keeps coming to the top.

Peter

Well--the bugs have another 11 years left of their life cycle then