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Be careful where you spray and how you store insect repellents containing DEET. I had a bottle of pump spray insect repellent in my trunk for fishing and the damn stuff dissolved the cap on the bottle and leaked out and dissolved the vinyl coating on the clamps on my jumper cables. I guess I'm lucky it didn't dissolve the insulation on the conductors. DEET is a solvent and can dissolve some watch crystals, auto paint clear coat, plastics, rayon, spandex, other synthetic fabrics, laminated fabrics like Gore-Tex, painted or varnished surfaces, and nail polish. If you have it on your hands, be careful what you touch. From now on I'm only buying the aerosol cans. | ||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Yeah...DEET will also ruin a couple of nice Tervis Tumblers  ...not mention pretty much anything else that is plastic.******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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Yes, it sure does. Many plastic tool handles, fishing rod handles and pistol grips bear the fingerprints of the owners who applied post-Vietnam era 99% DEET. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Don't get it on the steering wheel of your pickup truck. | |||
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Striker in waiting |
That's why Mrs.BurtonRW and I use picaridin in the jungle rather than DEET. Keeps the bugs off just as well without the nasty melting of polymers. Handy, since most of our technical clothing is polyester. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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| Saluki |
Did it's level best to dissolve the armrest in my truck. Good for lifting that nice rubberized finish off the dash too. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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Any trouble with DEET and pistol grips???? | |||
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Green Mountain Boy |
I wouldn't use the stuff but it seems to be all that's available locally. None of the alternatives are an option. !~God Bless the U.S. Military~! If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak | |||
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Semper Fi - 1775 |
Twice a year (at Exx's shoot) I wear 99% Deet like cologne. Risky? Yes. Worth the potential risk when the mosquitoes/ticks swarm? Yes. ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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DEET in the form of military issued repellent will absolutely melt the plastic stock of an M-16 rifle!  | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Very possibly. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Thanks I will use other stuff then. I will suffer the itch. | |||
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I know it is death to a fly line. I use Ultrathon after it was recommended by a couple of my friends who are licensed guides. Keeps away everything including mosquitoes and black flies. "You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called Fuck You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." - Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer") | |||
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RainX also dissolves stuff, Like the leather seat in my newish Tundra. Just an FYI. MOO means NO! Be the comet! | |||
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| Not really from Vienna |
RainX is bad for paint, too | |||
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| Saluki |
I sure would avoid rubber over molded grips. The original grips that came with a P-225 classic were dis colored, I'd bet money it was DEET related. It just had that look. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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It will dissolve skin as well. | |||
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| Striker in waiting |
Here you go! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d...picaridin&psc=1&th=1 -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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I remember reading sometime ago not to get it on a finished wooden gunstock . | |||
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The expensive coating on your expensive prescription lenses is also at risk. ____________________ | |||
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