Re: Thunderflies and LCDs!

[Neil Fuller <neil.fuller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yup Marcus, that was my solution when one of the little buggers got in
to my new 21" Sony.

I put the screen in a cupboard with a single bright light shining in the
top corner to attract the thunderfly.

You need to leave it for about 36 hours or so otherwise they  go
a-wandering again!

Cheers

Neil

Marcus Warrington wrote:
>
> I seem to remember the solution last time was to turn off the screen
and
> leave in a room with a light source. Presumably they're attracted to
the
> light ....???
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> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
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> Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 12 July 2006 20:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ukha_d] Thunderflies and LCDs!
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>
> I remember this being brought up last year but earlier today I
> noticed a few
> of the tiny thunderflies wandering about on the screen of my
> faithfull old
> Sony VAIO...
>
> ...anyway, a quick flick of the finger and all were disloged
> except for one
> of the little buggers which my finger seemed to just brush over.
> DAMN! It
> was behind the front surface of the LCD ... and it had decided
> that it liked
> it there as it wasn't going anywhere!
>
> Anyway ... If you find yourself in the same predicament and the
> bug in
> question hasn't been there for long (i.e. it's still alive) then
> I managed
> to encourage it to extracate itself by tapping on the screen
> about 1cm away
> from it just hard enough to cause the screen to "ripple"
> slightly and the
> little bugger started to move away from where I was tapping - it
> took a
> little while (and obviously you don't want to do it hard enough
> to crack the
> screen or squish it) but eventually the little sod was away from
> the
> viewable area of the display!
>
> Phil
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