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Posted: 4/19/2016 5:14:36 PM EDT
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Put them in an airtight bag and then leave them in a hot vehicle for a few days.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 5:15:42 PM EDT
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Nobody is going to want those laptops. Kill with fire.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:04:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WTF kind of person has bedbugs?  They're getting to be common again. I've been in several Motel 6 travel motel type places that were infested. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:07:49 PM EDT
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Dust off and nuke it from orbit
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:16:56 PM EDT
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Do you have access to a deep freezer? According to the interwebs, 4 days of constant 0F should kill them.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:44:41 PM EDT
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Don't most laptop operating systems have a debug mode? Duh.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:50:46 PM EDT
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Doesn't freezing kill bedbugs?
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:53:21 PM EDT
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Put them in the freezer. Or in a dryer. 
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:54:51 PM EDT
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How about a variation on the old "kill jar" method used by insect collectors? Saturate a bunch of cotton balls with denatured alcohol which is placed in a suitable open top container in the bag with the laptop? The alcohol fumes will kill the little bastards. I can't think of anything in a laptop that would suffer damage from denatured alcohol fumes.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 6:56:14 PM EDT
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Put them in a gift style box and leave them on the bed of your truck at the mall. Like the Christmas boxes with shit in them threads. Set up a camera though
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:00:12 PM EDT
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In Arizona I would just leave them in the car for a day.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:00:49 PM EDT
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Take out if bag, put in tuff box, put in 4 lbs of dry ice overnight. Dry ice works for a lot of stuff. If you have a skunk that falls into an open grave the night before interment drop 20 lbs in the grave and wait 1 hour, then remove skunk |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:05:24 PM EDT
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I work in the IT department at a home healthcare company. We just had two, count em' TWO, nurses who had to bring their company laptops back to us because they visited a patient with a hard core infestation of bedbugs. They gave their laptops to the patient to collect a signature and that's when they noticed the patient had bugs crawling all over her like it was a freaking every day occurrence to her.. In such cases we can't risk nurses bringing their laptops to other patients and spreading bedbug infestations so we had to issue them replacements. In the meantime, right now the two contaminated laptops are inside a garbage bag, which is inside another garbage bag, which is inside a box, which is on the floor in the corner. There goes close to $3000 worth of top of the line computer equipment that might as well be a dead raccoon picked up off the road.. Anyone have a sure fire recipe for killing bedbugs that won't destroy electronic equipment? How long do those damned things live, anyway? Panasonic had a whole line that you could sterilize. Yes I know they cost an arm and a leg. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:05:37 PM EDT
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Take it to a paint and body shop and have them put it in the paint booth when they bake a car.
 We have to maintain a surface temp of 140 degrees for up to 30 minutes. Air temp in booth may be 160 to get a 140 surface temp depending on the area of the car.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:05:43 PM EDT
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You want to reissue it?
Yuck Apply thermite and write it off. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:50:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either: a) Freezer. or b) Sealed in an airtight bag for 2 weeks. Freezer kills them dead. Airtight bag will kill them through starvation. Bedbugs require a host to live. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I work in the IT department at a home healthcare company. We just had two, count em' TWO, nurses who had to bring their company laptops back to us because they visited a patient with a hard core infestation of bedbugs. They gave their laptops to the patient to collect a signature and that's when they noticed the patient had bugs crawling all over her like it was a freaking every day occurrence to her.. In such cases we can't risk nurses bringing their laptops to other patients and spreading bedbug infestations so we had to issue them replacements. In the meantime, right now the two contaminated laptops are inside a garbage bag, which is inside another garbage bag, which is inside a box, which is on the floor in the corner. There goes close to $3000 worth of top of the line computer equipment that might as well be a dead raccoon picked up off the road.. Anyone have a sure fire recipe for killing bedbugs that won't destroy electronic equipment? How long do those damned things live, anyway? Either: a) Freezer. or b) Sealed in an airtight bag for 2 weeks. Freezer kills them dead. Airtight bag will kill them through starvation. Bedbugs require a host to live. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 7:55:44 PM EDT
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First off, you don't even know if the laptops are infested. If they're not infested, then no one should have an issue receiving it.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:06:08 PM EDT
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a trip to a walmart parking lot is needed... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1) Leave the laptop sitting out in the open.... 2) Someone will kindly come along and take the problem from you.. 3) laugh to self because now it is some stealing POS's problem.. 4) profit a trip to a walmart parking lot is needed... Read my book you did... |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:08:49 PM EDT
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Is there any possibility that these laptops could be reserved for this years Operation Krampus? Wouldn't it just make some thieves day to steal a new laptop and find their home is now infested with bed bugs?
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:14:13 PM EDT
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Anyone have a sure fire recipe for killing bedbugs that won't destroy electronic equipment? How long do those damned things live, anyway? First couple of Google hits... http://www.wired.com/2014/06/what-do-you-do-about-bed-bugs-in-your-laptop/ http://www.bedbugsupply.com/blog/treatments/treat-bed-bugs-electronics/ http://bell-environmental.com/help-my-laptop-has-bed-bugs/ It happens often enough to inspire a Wired web article. That's fucked up. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:14:54 PM EDT
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Chlorine dioxide. No residuals. Kills everything. Make a disinfecting box and either make your own (it's easy) or buy it (have no idea where). http://www.amazon.com/Auto-Vaccine-ClO2-interior-eliminator/dp/B003JK3JAQ |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:15:58 PM EDT
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$3k for two laptops?
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:26:45 PM EDT
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Here is your answer. I would go several hours. But this will do it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Heat them up to 120 degrees for a few hours. The temperature that kills them is 113 degrees, even for a few seconds. You need to make sure the whole laptop reaches this temperature, so if you heat the laptop to 120 that should do it. Put it in a seal cardboard box with an oven thermometer, poke a hole in the box and stick a blow drier in the hole. Run it until the thermometer reaches 113 and start a stop watch but keep the drier on until it hits 120. Turn off the drier and keep track until the temp cools to 113, should take a few minutes. Total time over 113 should be about five or ten minutes. You're done and so are the bugs. The bugs and eggs are dead once they reach 113 degrees. The only reason to heat above 113 is to ensure the whole laptop achieves that temp. On an 80 degree day, the inside of your car probably goes well over this temperature. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:39:04 PM EDT
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You forgot Zika. 
WTF kind of person has bedbugs?
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I'm just so pleased that we are getting all these bugs and diseases back. Perhaps it will toughen up the youth when they get polio from an illegal alien and bedbugs due to liberal environmental bullshit. You forgot Zika.
WTF kind of person has bedbugs?
Lots of people who keep themselves clean get bedbugs. They do not carry disease and live one the bedframe. No amount of keeping yourself clean will get rid o them, no amount of vacuuming, changing sheets, etc, will slow the bastards down. Sevin dust on the bedframe, diatomaceous earth scattered around the preiphery, etc. Failing that, cover the mattress with a bedbug proof cover, put each leg of the bed into a bowl with a good coating of permethrin on the leg and the inside of the bowl (recoat every 6 weeks) or simply an oil, something to keep them from being able to climb the leg AND a pesticide, then keep the bed away from the wall for the next 18 months. Then hope they didn't get as far as the couch. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:40:26 PM EDT
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100% nitrogen. I presume bedbugs breath. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I work in the IT department at a home healthcare company. We just had two, count em' TWO, nurses who had to bring their company laptops back to us because they visited a patient with a hard core infestation of bedbugs. They gave their laptops to the patient to collect a signature and that's when they noticed the patient had bugs crawling all over her like it was a freaking every day occurrence to her.. In such cases we can't risk nurses bringing their laptops to other patients and spreading bedbug infestations so we had to issue them replacements. In the meantime, right now the two contaminated laptops are inside a garbage bag, which is inside another garbage bag, which is inside a box, which is on the floor in the corner. There goes close to $3000 worth of top of the line computer equipment that might as well be a dead raccoon picked up off the road.. Anyone have a sure fire recipe for killing bedbugs that won't destroy electronic equipment? How long do those damned things live, anyway? 100% nitrogen. I presume bedbugs breath. The live bugs do. But the eggs don't. A new generation will hatch out if only treated with non-persistent poison or oxygen displacement. Heat or cold kills both bugs and eggs. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:41:02 PM EDT
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How about a variation on the old "kill jar" method used by insect collectors? Saturate a bunch of cotton balls with denatured alcohol which is placed in a suitable open top container in the bag with the laptop? The alcohol fumes will kill the little bastards. I can't think of anything in a laptop that would suffer damage from denatured alcohol fumes. The alcohol fumes will not penetrate the laptops insides very well. Leave in plastic bag. Put bag in the back of the car for a day. Will kill everything. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:46:58 PM EDT
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Just throw the damned things away. Save yourself the time and grief. No one is going to want to use them, people will find out their issued laptop was one of the bedbug laptops, bitch out the boss/HR, you end up shelving the thing for the next five years, and end up tossing it anyway when it's out-of-date. Or save them to have a dedicated laptop for known gross patients that need a visit...the poor nurse who draws the unlucky straw can come check one out for her visit to the contaminated premise, then back into the locked pest vault it goes. 
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:47:59 PM EDT
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This is now a "Bring back DDT" thread! But if we bring back DDT, it will save millions of people we don't want to illegally cross the border from malaria... I'm conflicted. |
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:52:01 PM EDT
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They're getting to be common again. I've been in several Motel 6 travel motel type places that were infested. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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WTF kind of person has bedbugs?
They're getting to be common again. I've been in several Motel 6 travel motel type places that were infested. They are very common in even high-end hotels anymore, you really need to check the room carefully before you settle in. And don't forget about places like movie theaters and airplanes...people have picked up bedbugs there as well.
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Posted: 4/19/2016 8:55:24 PM EDT
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Once upon a time, I worked at the store with a big blue and yellow logo, where the guys who fixed computers wore white, button down, short sleeve shirts.We sent a computer out to get repaired, and the computer came back, wrapped in shrink wrap with a printed picture showing a cockroach sitting on top of the cpu fan staring at the dude that cracked the rig open. Wish I still had the picture.
Saw plenty of computers with roaches, but none with bed bugs. I can't tell if that is a plus or a minus. |
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Posted: 4/20/2016 6:48:08 PM EDT
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Microwave them for 30 seconds each anything over 30 seconds will damage the laptop. In fact make it twenty seconds each
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Posted: 4/21/2016 9:17:18 AM EDT
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The temperature that kills them is 113 degrees, even for a few seconds. You need to make sure the whole laptop reaches this temperature, so if you heat the laptop to 120 that should do it. Put it in a seal cardboard box with an oven thermometer, poke a hole in the box and stick a blow drier in the hole. Run it until the thermometer reaches 113 and start a stop watch but keep the drier on until it hits 120. Turn off the drier and keep track until the temp cools to 113, should take a few minutes. Total time over 113 should be about five or ten minutes. You're done and so are the bugs. The bugs and eggs are dead once they reach 113 degrees. The only reason to heat above 113 is to ensure the whole laptop achieves that temp. On an 80 degree day, the inside of your car probably goes well over this temperature. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Heat them up to 120 degrees for a few hours. The temperature that kills them is 113 degrees, even for a few seconds. You need to make sure the whole laptop reaches this temperature, so if you heat the laptop to 120 that should do it. Put it in a seal cardboard box with an oven thermometer, poke a hole in the box and stick a blow drier in the hole. Run it until the thermometer reaches 113 and start a stop watch but keep the drier on until it hits 120. Turn off the drier and keep track until the temp cools to 113, should take a few minutes. Total time over 113 should be about five or ten minutes. You're done and so are the bugs. The bugs and eggs are dead once they reach 113 degrees. The only reason to heat above 113 is to ensure the whole laptop achieves that temp. On an 80 degree day, the inside of your car probably goes well over this temperature. Or you could just leave it on the dashboard of your car for a few hours. 
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Posted: 4/21/2016 9:22:44 AM EDT
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Put them in an airtight bag and then leave them in a hot vehicle for a few days. I came here to post this. I had a colleague who worked prior in circuit city near Philadelphia in the electronics repair department when they still did that. He said all the time VCR's and such would come in and they'd open them up and cock-a-roaches would flow out like fucking liquid. |
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Posted: 4/21/2016 9:40:24 AM EDT
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I came here to post this. I had a colleague who worked prior in circuit city near Philadelphia in the electronics repair department when they still did that. He said all the time VCR's and such would come in and they'd open them up and cock-a-roaches would flow out like fucking liquid. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Put them in an airtight bag and then leave them in a hot vehicle for a few days. I came here to post this. I had a colleague who worked prior in circuit city near Philadelphia in the electronics repair department when they still did that. He said all the time VCR's and such would come in and they'd open them up and cock-a-roaches would flow out like fucking liquid. Back in the day, that was a problem with taking in electronics in a pawnshop. Sometimes we put stuff in a garbage, spray in some raid and put it on the shelf in the back until the customer came back for it, or when the loan expired in 90 days. |
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Posted: 4/21/2016 10:14:57 AM EDT
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How about a variation on the old "kill jar" method used by insect collectors? Saturate a bunch of cotton balls with denatured alcohol which is placed in a suitable open top container in the bag with the laptop? The alcohol fumes will kill the little bastards. I can't think of anything in a laptop that would suffer damage from denatured alcohol fumes. Dunno about the fumes, but one of the Pros that spray the apartments and hotels advised me to use it on my shoes if I suspected anything. Said it does kill them. I take a large spray bottle with me when I travel. |
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Posted: 4/21/2016 10:34:10 AM EDT
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Since you're in a work place, I'd vote for a -20° freezer for 4 days or try ethylene oxide (hospitals have such sterilization procedures) for fun.
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