Recently got one of the Taiwan UV drop-ins from Manafont (SKU: 6239) to spot cat urine.
There seems to be quite some fluctuation concerning the quality of these drop-ins.
It appears I have received a lemon
Mine does not really illuminate any bodily fluids (even when using orange sun glasses) or security markings on banknotes.
It produces a lot of visible light and gives me a roaring headache when used for longer than a couple of secondsā¦ even when wearing sunglasses.
Is it worth the trouble to contact Manafont about this?
Made me visit Manafont and purchase a SkyRay host and the linked emitter! Hey, for $20 itās a no brainer! Canāt wait to get it and see whatās going on around my houseā¦.located smack dab in the middle of Texas!
If I find anything more interesting than how badly my 84 year old father misses the toilet Iāll be sure and post pics.
Thanks keltex, very nice thread!
When I was growing up my dad owned a lumber yard. I remember once while filling an order for some 2x6ās on a cool morning when I picked up one end of some long lengths to put em on the forklift there was a momma scorpion with what appeared to be hundreds of the tiniest little carbon copies on her backā¦and they appeared to be eating her alive! The 2 heavy 26ā long 2x6ās (long lengths arenāt kiln dried, they tend to be wet, hence very heavy) had plenty of leverage out on that end, they went splat (think .22 rimfire) and there were a whole lot less scorpions in the vicinity! Perhaps my foot pressing down on the boards a couple feet away from the end added to the gunshot effect. Whatever. Those bad boys were little more than juice!
We had a built in oven, 2 up one on top of another with the controls about eye level behind glass. I guess a scorp got in there as a baby and then grew and couldnāt get out. We had a grown dead scorp behind the glass in the panel for close to 30 years, til the oven died and had to be replaced.
Uhg . . our little pug just found the first scorpion Iāve ever seen in person . . about 5ā with tail extended, only 3 feet from the desk where I was sitting. She had been acting kinda weird, like she was rubbing something off her on the carpet just before that (which she does every once in a while). Then she started āpointingā toward it, for lack of a better word (never done that and sheās generally not a barker). Fortunately she showed no wound or pain from the episode.
First words out of my mouth to my wife who was grossed out to see the smashed body: āGuess itās time to buy that UV flashlight!ā
PS - The pics above finally kicked me into heebie jeebie mode . . thanks for that!
I like those pictures of scorpions so much I would like to contribute my own picture of an arachnid I saw out on a mountain bike ride. This big guy is a Texas brown tarantula and apparently they make good pets. I attempted to pick it up to move it out of the trail so it wouldnāt get ran over and every time I would touch it it would flip over and play dead.
