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Boric Acid (How to use boric acid if you're a prepper or survivalist)
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Posted on 06/13/2022 11:22:09 AM PDT by Mount Athos

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To: Yo-Yo

“Dispose of the bodies of those pesky FBI types when they come sniffing around your cabin...”

That would be lime.


41 posted on 06/13/2022 2:14:27 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Jane Long

Really good cocaine.


42 posted on 06/13/2022 2:19:55 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: Mount Athos

BTTT


43 posted on 06/13/2022 2:22:55 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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I also use it for a brazing and forge welding flux.

Always keep several pounds of it around. Bugs, Brazing and Blacksmithing.

Has many medical uses as well.
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_boric_acid_used_for/article.htm


44 posted on 06/13/2022 2:31:32 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Mount Athos

Thanks.


45 posted on 06/13/2022 2:57:52 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Mr. K

Are you talking about borax or boric acid? They are different so I want to be clear which you are drinking.


46 posted on 06/13/2022 3:02:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Fido969

Enough of what to dissolve it?
Are you mixing it with water or something else?
And then just smearing it or spraying it on the wood?


47 posted on 06/13/2022 3:03:37 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Just mix in water, I use a 5 gal sprayer and about a # of borax, stir well and apply to exposed lumber to keep bees from munching holes into it. Not for exposed or ground contact lumber, but good for under cover/ roof structures.


48 posted on 06/13/2022 3:21:55 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Deaf Smith

Chiggers don’t bury into your skin, they suck juices out of you like all nasty insects. The chigger bite is the wound, they, like ticks, inject nasty chemicals that then irritate you.

Prevention is the only way to, well, prevent them.

I usi suppose one could apply borax before exposure, but it dissolves in water, so sweat would mitigate it.


49 posted on 06/13/2022 3:26:53 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Manly Warrior

thanks!


50 posted on 06/13/2022 3:32:12 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Manly Warrior

Chiggers are a parasite for humans. They like to burrow into hair follicles as entry point to below skin surface.


51 posted on 06/13/2022 3:34:46 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Yo-Yo

You’re thinking about hydrofluoric acid, like Walter White used in Breaking Bad.

But lye from wood ashes can dissolve bodies when using high temperatures (e.g. 300 degrees F).

Preppers would typically make lye in order to make soap by combining it with fat.

But lye might come in handy to dissolve animal carcasses, Revenuers, and pesky FIB agents, in an apocalyptic scenario.


52 posted on 06/13/2022 3:40:32 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: Deaf Smith

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chiggers

Other than the acts of climbing and “ biting”, they, don’t hang around like a tick....


53 posted on 06/13/2022 3:47:26 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Deaf Smith

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chiggers

Other than the acts of climbing and “ biting”, they, don’t hang around like a tick....


54 posted on 06/13/2022 4:03:06 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Mount Athos

It is a great flux for brazing and welding.


55 posted on 06/13/2022 5:18:56 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Mount Athos
See this link for the full instrutions on home made Laundry Detergent.

https://www.popsci.com/homemade-laundry-detergent/

Snip... Ingredients

½ cup borax
1 bar of soap
½ cup sodium carbonate
2 gallons of water
1 ounce of essential oils (optional)

...snip

56 posted on 06/13/2022 5:25:45 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

thanks!


57 posted on 06/13/2022 5:26:22 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

We could have used 2000 Mule Team Borax on the Nov 2020 election.


58 posted on 06/13/2022 5:31:36 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Mount Athos

bkmk


59 posted on 06/13/2022 5:40:41 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: unlearner

Lye helps keep odors down in the outhouse.

Boric acid and de work well together on bare floors, but not as good on carpet.


60 posted on 06/13/2022 6:09:33 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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