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Re: Re: DEET & The Dish

Subject: Re: Re: DEET & The Dish
From: Doug Von Gausig <>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:20:30 -0700
At 07:37 AM 11/5/2002, Klas wrote:
>Up north, in Lapland, the Swedish Army made mosquito repellent tests a few
>years ago. Among a few other ways, they found the by far most efficient to
>be large quantities of yeast-pills.
>
>DO NOT!!! use any mosquito spray on the Telinga dish! The strong detergent=
s
>make it milky and weak.

I use DEET sprays all the time in Costa Rica - couldn't do without them.
I'm careful not to get the DEET directly on anything made of plastic, but
the dish occasionally rubs against my arm or sweaty hand, and it does
discolor it. Not so severely, though, that it is unusable - just softens
the view through it!

Doug

Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
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