[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Stupidity

[Joe Duszyński]

You can still buy sulfur candles try Amazon.
And you can always make them....
I find that Carbon Monoxide does not have the magical corrosive
qualities of the sulphur though.

The split plug reminds me of replacing a broken outlet in an old house...
It was an ungrounded two prong duplex outlet the top was switched the
bottom always on.
The person I was fixing it for asked "Do they make plugs like that anymore?"
duh yea...

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 1:51 PM Jones, Douglas W
<douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:
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> From: Joe Duszyński [joeduszynski1 at gmail.com] -- Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:16 PM
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> > It is how I keep my detached garage free of mice and bugs!
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> It used to be that they sold sulfur candles for pest control.  Light one in your attic, light one in your detatched garage.  I've seen one such candle, in original box, in a flea market.  The candle was made identically to what they sometimes call a plumbers candle, except that instead of wax cast around the wick, the candle was made of sulfur cast around the wick.
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> Strangely, you can't get these anymore, despite the fact that they were extraordinarily effective for pest control.  It's also noteworthy that they greatly accelerated the corrosion of all the metal objects in the area being treated.  Great for use around old Teletypes if you don't want them ever to work again.
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>           Doug Jones
>           jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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> P.S.:  If you have a two-ended cord of the type that launched this discussion, one way to safely store it is to plug both ends into outlets in your hose, so long as both outlets are on the same phase.  If they are on different phases and you have a classical fuse box, this becomes a good fuse tester.  Plug it in, and if the fuses on both circuits blow, they were both good fuses.
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>          DJ