On Thursday 24 June 2021 03:03:41 Stillpoint X wrote: > Thanks, this group is great!!...this should help a lot. For the user > who mentioned patent stuff I'm just making these custom lids for > personal use. Working on a device to discourage Fire Ants from certain > areas around the house (and I have a bunch of these glass jars). If > your interested on how i'm doing it here's more info on what I'm using > https://thesilveredge.com/is-colloidal-silver-effective-against-ants/ > .I tested this with a small sample of fire ants using a squirt botte > and it does work and you can make the stuff at home yourself for > cheap. Not only that, its good for us too. Swallow about an ounce a day. But the solution I make only takes about 15 minutes to make a pint of cuz there is about 3 grains of salt added to the distilled water. Keep in a dark brown heavy plastic bottle as its light sensitive. I've been using it intermittently for several years. > *Several tests at different concentrations were conducted over fifteen > (15) months. In all cases after an initial reaction period varying > from about 2 to about 4 weeks during which fire ant activity steadily > decreased, the treated areas were then free of fire ant mounds for > approximately six (6) months to one (1) year.* > > *A second application of solution to the same mounds about one year > after the initial treatment achieved the repellant result within a > shorter period of about 1 to 2 weeks. After the initial application, > the tested areas were regularly maintained (mowed and cleaned of > debris).”* > > > *Thanks Again* > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 9:42 PM jon <jon@jonbondy.com> wrote: > > What a responsive community we have! Makes me smile! > > > > Jon > > On 6/23/2021 9:12 PM, Revar Desmera wrote: > > > > I tweaked thread_helix() in BOSL2 to allow a starts= argument, so > > now you can do something like: > > > > include <BOSL2/std.scad> > > include <BOSL2/threading.scad> > > thread_helix(d=50, pitch=8, thread_depth=2, thread_angle=30, > > starts=8, twist=45, higbee=3, $fn=72); > > > > > > > > > > - Revar > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenSCAD mailing list > > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>