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   BobSmalser | Oct 03, 2007 07:23pm | #1

   Been so long I'm not up to date on my insecticides, but I used to tent such pieces in a sealed plastic bag along with a dish of persistent insecticide. Then I'd set the bag atop an oil-filled electric radiator set on low for a couple weeks.

   Insecticides are usually in a kerosene base that doesn't affect most finishes, but I'd always test that first by dipping some #0000 steel wool in the insecticide and rubbing a non visible spot to see if I came up with any color.

   I won't mention the insecticide because it's not available any more, but I wouldn't do a kitchen or dining room table with it.

   
   

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   Edited 10/3/2007 12:23 pm by BobSmalser

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   furndr | Oct 04, 2007 05:48pm | #5

   Thanks for the response.

   Since my original posting I located a FWW article in issue #34 that states that lindane is very effective. I'll try to locate a source.

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   WillGeorge | Oct 03, 2007 10:32pm | #2

   A small piece of furniture I recently built for a customer is infested with powder post beetles.

   If it were me I would make a new one for her/him.. Bite the bullet and maybe they will recommend you to another customer. Be sure to fully explain what happened to them!

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   furndr | Oct 04, 2007 05:51pm | #6

   That's probably the safest approach. However, I hope I can find an easier solution.

   Thanks. 

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   nivagthetool | Oct 03, 2007 10:43pm | #3

   I dont know the powder post beetle or the size of the piece but I have had some sucess with small boxes and wood worm in the deep freeze overnight.

   They keep stable the fabric of the universe and their prayer is in the work of their hands  

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   furndr | Oct 04, 2007 05:45pm | #4

   Thanks. I didn't think of that. Maybe I can get my local grocer to let me use his walk-in freezer for 24 hours.

   Dan

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   BobSmalser | Oct 04, 2007 07:14pm | #7

   I doubt freezing will work. These critters overwinter very well in Canada, too.“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin.