the trick is let it warm up 3-5 minutes when done fogging let stand alone 5 minutes make dure it’s done “spitting” cause if it cools with any juice in it it will clog and it will be done.

My electric”disappeared” during a move a few years ago, and I may have to check one of these out, as the property now precludes convenient use of a cord.

Enter my fogger … my lawn mower.
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I have an oil can with a flexable hose. Cut off the tip and insert it into a 3 ft. piece of copper tube. Get a hose clamp the size of the oil can and a smaller one to join the can onto the lawnmower. Drill a hole into the muffler twice the size of the copper tube. Anchor the tube down to the mower cuz it will blow out of the hole. Fill the can with Mosquito juice, fire the mower and pump the juice out of the can. Great fogger. Fire the fog into the bottom of a bush or hedge and let it rise and vanquish the biting foe.

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One small problem I’ve found is the pressure of the exaust tends to push the juice back up the copper tube which makes you have to pump harder to get it down the tube. To solve this I was going to put a football infating needle on the end of the copper tube and give that a try.

Could just do something like that too. Much cheaper and less need to refill with ice

That said, I’ll pass on something like this, for two reasons: I definitely don’t want to get rid of the beneficial bugs, and if I’m going to be outside long enough to warrant this, my granddaughters are likely to be with me and DDT truck from my youth nonwithstanding, I’m not willing to subject them to this. I’ll just keep up with trying to elminate as much breeding territory as I can, and use the topical poisons when we must.

Of course if you do that, you need to use one that has *never* had bug killer in it.

Plus pumping out massive amounts of smoke reminds me of my childhood chasing behind the anti-mosquito DDT smoker trucks that use to drive through the Southeast.

The huge downside is that it also nukes all the spiders and good insects that share the same habitat. I’m looking forward to trying the hormone attractant water trap thing next spring to stop the breeding cycle before it gets heavy.

You might consider, instead of this, getting one of those cheap fog machines from party City/Target/etc. They work on the same principle and if you got a timer you could set it up to do a periodic burst and give you long term coverage, instead of occasionally having to get up and re-fog. I’ve never tried it, but it should work…

[1]: http://www.blackflag.com/guarantee.php
[2]: http://warranty.thefountainheadgroup.com/

Heck of a lot cheaper than this product (although not quite the same) and worlds cheaper than the propane drive mosquito magnet which does essentially the same thing.