luck or unlucky?

Dylan W.

Dylan W.

lone resident of Bro-Lite Island
Joined
Mar 17, 2007
Location
Mocksville NC
Ok..I saw Ron's post about well house covers and I decided to post my own problem from yesterday and last night.

Came home from playing in the woods. My wife washed her hands to start supper. Kids went to wash up and poof.. No water. Wtf?

After checking the breakers, which were fine, I slipped on the overalls and headed to the crawl space to check the pump tank and pressure switch. Pump tank seemed fine but the pressure switch didn't have power on one leg. Spent over an hour scratching my head and just staring at it. I kept checking the same things over and over. Flicking the switch on and off and manually moving the pressure switch trying to make sparks..Still Nothing.Crawled back out and killed the power to the switch and decided to replace it...again. (I just replaced the switch last month)Crawled back in to start the sucky job that I was to cheap to call a plumber to do. I'm glad I did. So now I'm all up on it getting ready to start unscrewing wires and I saw the problem.

A damn stink bug had crawled into the switch it must have just crawled there while Brooke was washing her hands..then the switch kicked on and the bug got caught between the contacts.

Turned out to be a cheap fix after all. But what a pain in the arse.
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Id say
You=Lucky
Stinkbug=unlucky
 
I hate those stupid things right now.
 
GotWood said:
Is there a certain time you do like them?
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I normally don't really care because they weren't a nuisance, but the last 6 months or so they have invaded around here.
 
damn they are everywhere, I used to keep work gloves laying in various places...........until I squashed untold numbers inserting my hand. I had flashes of Indiana Jones in the Temple Of Doom!
 
talk about a heavy duty backyard redneck light display. BZZZZZZZZaaapp!
 
EVERYWHERE ! You right! I've never had a problem till this year. I finally figured out there in the attic. Was thinking of spraying, but then when it got hot, they seem to be leaving. This week, with all the rain, they have come back!:kaioken:
 
I think the only way to get rid of them is to burn the house.
 
I can't tell you how many times I've torn the ridge vent off a roof and found hundreds of the things crawling everywhere.
 
Spider did that to my hvac unit 4 years ago. Took a couple hours to figure out. The struggle is real son
 
Cheap stink bug catcher

-2 liter bottle (clear works best)
-cut off funnel top, turn upside down and tape back into top of 2 liter bottle
-place battery powered light (~3 inch round light) on bottom of 2 liter bottle
-turn on light at night and set in areas where stink bugs are worse (usually around windows)
-once bottle is pretty full, toss bottle in trash, and place another one on light, repeat until stink bugs are gone or at a tolerable level

Many images on Google of this
 
I've done that. 2 liter bottle with the light didn't work so well.
But the 20 Oz bottle with the lid cut off and flipped over sure does make a great way to catch them one at a time without causing them to spray and stink up your hand.
 
I have had regular sugar ants stick a contact on an AC unit and cause it to freeze up.
I keep Combat ant bait there now and change them out a few times per year.
 
Yeah that style of trap caught 1 stinking in 2 months At my house. Would have had more luck just leaving the lid off the trashcan.
 
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