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Microwave Woodworm
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Ho boy, y'all got me started.  I used to buy a lot of European sets back when shipping was tolerable.  Have had several that came with woodworms.  The first was a B&O Master 38.  I first froze the cabinet for about two weeks and that did nothing.  Then I left it in the neighbor's deep freeze for about 6 months.  Then I puttied over all the so-called 'exit holes' and that seemed to stop it.  For a while.
I had my Euros on display together so they took turns infecting each other.  Not to mention I had powder post beetles in the wood shelving.  That's how I learned to tell them apart.
I had to be away for about a 18 months and knew I had a problem with one English set so I quarantined it in a plastic bag.  When I came home one of my many first orders of business was to address the problem.

The English radio in quarantine was almost totally eaten away under the veneer.  Didn't look bad from the outside.  Quite the colony going on in that one.  The cabinet was totally trashed but I reconstructed one from scratch.  Other sets weren't so bad.

I went over everything.  First with malathion which didn't seem to be having much effect.  And finally with a termite killer made by RealKill that we get here rather inexpensively.

It has been over a year and I haven't seen a speck of wood dust on the shelves or any of these sets.  I give credit to the Real Kill product.

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Messages In This Thread
Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-20-2014, 10:05 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 10-20-2014, 10:53 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by morzh - 10-21-2014, 12:00 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Warren - 10-21-2014, 12:13 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Eliot Ness - 10-21-2014, 07:43 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-21-2014, 11:11 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-21-2014, 11:57 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-21-2014, 12:16 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Ron Ramirez - 10-21-2014, 12:24 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Eliot Ness - 10-21-2014, 01:34 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-21-2014, 03:13 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-21-2014, 04:10 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-21-2014, 06:29 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by keithw - 10-21-2014, 07:21 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 10-22-2014, 01:51 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by PhilcoJohn - 10-22-2014, 09:45 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Ron Ramirez - 10-22-2014, 09:48 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-22-2014, 06:05 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-22-2014, 06:23 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-22-2014, 07:05 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-22-2014, 10:00 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 10-22-2014, 10:01 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-23-2014, 08:54 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Alan Douglas - 10-23-2014, 11:40 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-23-2014, 12:02 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 10-23-2014, 06:10 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Alan Douglas - 10-23-2014, 07:18 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Warren - 10-23-2014, 08:09 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 10-24-2014, 01:34 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 10-24-2014, 01:53 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 10-24-2014, 03:25 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 11-06-2014, 03:48 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Ron Ramirez - 11-06-2014, 11:29 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Warren - 11-07-2014, 03:43 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 11-07-2014, 05:17 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Arran - 11-08-2014, 01:18 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Alan Douglas - 11-08-2014, 09:31 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Phlogiston - 11-08-2014, 12:02 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Alan Douglas - 11-08-2014, 07:01 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by exray - 11-08-2014, 07:39 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by exray - 11-08-2014, 07:52 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Ron Ramirez - 11-09-2014, 09:16 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by exray - 11-09-2014, 09:32 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by codefox1 - 11-13-2014, 06:34 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 11-14-2014, 08:40 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Paul Philco322 - 11-16-2014, 09:59 AM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by lacountyretired - 11-16-2014, 02:33 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by exray - 11-16-2014, 06:47 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by Eric T - 01-03-2015, 02:18 PM
RE: Microwave Woodworm - by HOTWIRE - 01-03-2015, 08:21 PM



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