I lived in India for a year for work, and put one of those guys in every available outlet when I was staying in places not named Hyatt, Le Meridian, or Taj. They worked. The Malaria monsters would just sit on the walls. I also recommend using 40% Deet as shampoo and laundry detergent. At least you'll live long enough to die from a bus running you off a cliff.
11:20 "And they kill mosquitoes, moths, and cockwombles". As a child of the 1970s I grew up reading the Wombles books. I remember the Common Womble of Wimbledon Common, the Water-Womble of the Scottish Highlands, and the Yeti-Womble of the Himalayas, but cockwombles were not discussed in children's books.
@@Sinjinator They're probably talking about all the kids show hosts later discovered to have been sexually abusing kids in the 70's (e.g. Jimmy Saville)
The green British one is most likely citronella oil, which is distilled from a couple of lemongrass species (but lemongrass itself does not work!!!) It works differently to the pyrethrum clones, it masks the CO2 source that certain insects use to home in on its prey. Its safe to use on skin which pyrethrum is not. Also can be used on animals as a deterrent, Kevin Richardson (The Lion Whisperer) uses it on his cats.
@TO NO sheep dips are organophosphate based - totally different than permethrin - you could drink a cup of permethrin and be fine but do the same with an OP and you win a free trip to ICU
Citronellol is not really effective. It is probably responsible for a bunch malaria cases each year because someone used it instead of actual insecticide.
Yup, anyone with actual mosquito issues knows that in reality citronella candles and oils due practically nothing, even in large quantities for mosquitos. @@AstralS7orm
Additionally on the pyrethrin thing: Mammals have an enzyme that breaks the pyrethrin down fairly quickly; insects and other animals do not. It still affects nerve cells in people and other mammals, but unless you are exposed to enough of it to stop you breathing (a LOT) it's mainly an inconvenience. I spilled some on my hand one time and it was unpleasantly tingly for an hour or so, but I've suffered zero permanent effects at all.
"...but I've suffered zero permanent effects at all." I did the same, and I am fine, other than a tendency to flit round the room bashing in to the standard lamp repeatedly... and the compulsive need to regurgitate on to my food to make it more digestible... but we wont mention those minor effects. ruclips.net/video/OnIXXe83fe4/видео.html
It is 85 Rs which is MRP, you can get 5 Rs discount locally, comes around 1.2USD. The price is basically of the liquid bottle, the machines are sold virtually free of cost in India. Its a clever marketing, because these machines can be used with the same brand bottles only, and so the refill you will require every 20-30 days or so, makes it recover the cost for the machine by the company.
The 'Good Knight' branded one is manufactured by Godrej which is an enormous company manufacturing consumer appliances of all sorts and other stuff. They have been around since the late 1800's and they have an enviable and very well deserved reputation in India. I would trust their products more than most others. They haven't lasted over 100 years as consumer goods manufacturer by playing fast and loose with safety.
A friend who suffered from gout once bought some pyrethrin based meds from t'internet. He concluded the side effects were unpleasant but insects left him alone.
You probably mean powdered pyrethrum plants, they sell it as herbal cures, still toxic, and does nothing medical but not as dangerous as taking pure pyrethrins.
Cockwomble. noun: Someone who is incompetent or inept; a person of little tact; a person with considerable overconfidence in their abilities, or lacks self awareness. LOL i love it!
I have seen a device VERY similar to that Indian one, here in Spain, some years ago. The brand I use DO also have two positions, but the icons next to the 3-position switch show the "I" setting marked with a flower and a mosquito, and the "II" marked with two flowers, indicating that it's not meant to be used to kill/annoy insects. They are rated 5w.
Good Knight is a well established brand in the mosquito repellent industry here in India, and has been around for several decades. Repellents like this are pretty much a requirement when living in tropical climates like India's. If anything, people complain that these repellents are too weak. I've heard that if these things actually killed mosquitoes, they would have a PR disaster on their hands. Not because people love mosquitoes, but because people would extrapolate and decide that it's too toxic for home use. Rs. (with the period) is an abbreviation for Rupees, so that's 85 rupees. You might also see the new-ish unicode symbol ₹ being used. A hundredth of a rupee, a paisa, is too weak now, and has fallen out of common use.
I wonder how much International shipping costs the Indian eBay sellers. For me to ship something like this to India would cost about 800 Rupees by basic untracked airmail.
Looks like it starts at about Rs. 200 (so about £3) for a 20 cm^3 package weighing 250 gms, from India to mainland UK. This price estimate is from the postal service, which is typically reliable but might not be the fastest. www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/CalculatePostage.aspx I'm surprised it's that cheap, to be honest. Just checked FedEx, and they give an estimate of just under Rs. 4,000, which borders on robbery, but you'd get predictable delivery times.
You should look into "allout ultra" it has a lot more features than "good night" like a 8 hour timer and an "ultra mode" that turns the power super high for an hour and has a slide to select the precise power. My family had bunch of them and I distinctly remember how hard it was to find the refills for them.
I've used, limitedly, some stuff called permethrin which is a member of the pyrethrin family. I use it for ticks, which are a big problem where I live. I mention this because permethrin is highly toxic to cats and fish. Something to keep in mind. But it is effective against ticks - I use it on clothes, applying it and letting it dry. Never want it wet on skin, I believe.
Technically it is toxic to most, if not all, animals, but most mammals are not affected by reasonable dosages because we possess an enzyme that very rapidly neutralizes and metabolizes the toxin which quickly removes it from circulation, thus protecting us from exposure. Cats, however, lack that enzyme as it’s been lost or become inactive in their genetics so you have to be careful about the dose a cat can receive versus most mammals (though cats can still tolerate low levels without harm, but those low levels are like 1% of what most mammals can safely tolerate by weight, if I recall correctly). That enzyme is why sedating the human patient that tried to commit suicide by drinking the fluid was sufficient to likely avoid lasting harm, they just had to bide time for the body to produce more enzyme and complete deactivating/metabolizing the toxin after the initial dose likely overwhelmed the body’s ability to metabolize it in near real time. It’s much like our tolerance for alcohol that is toxic to most other mammals because we possess enzymes to deactivate and metabolize alcohol in the liver relatively quickly and that is rare in mammals outside of primates (it turns out some primates also enjoy alcohol and even exhibit similar rates of alcoholism to humans).
@@ethanpoole3443 That's profoundly interesting. Thanks Ethan. It makes me wonder about the many ways medicines must operate to manage a target problem. (But now I worry that Clive experiment with drinking some to see if he can test the process in some way. [wink])
As I remember, pyrethrum was originally extracted from a chrysanthemum native Borneo, Java, Malaysia - somewhere in that area. Since this was not available to the USA during WW II as a source of supply, DDT was developed to take its place. For this reason reason, I've always thought of pyrethrum as an insecticide - an insect-specific nerve poison, acting on the synapses.
The best solution for moths is to use the fly tongue catchers (or fly paper). You hang it at the corners of doors near the potential source. I stumbled upon this by chance. I received a small pack of 4 from someone, and decided to do it for nostalgia reasons, flies aren't exactly an issue because of screens. So i hung them in various places, one such place being right near my clothes rack at the entrance, but i couldn't put it in the middle of the road and the ceiling has a bike rack. So, door corner to wall it was. The thing was caked in moths in under half a year. All of it. It's actually...disturbing since some still move until they die. Have repeated the process near the other clothes in the house, same effect.
Rest assured, those Indian repellants are quite good... I've seen paralyzed ants underneath. I don't use them anymore since I'm able to import 'deet' based repellants
Hi Clive, Would you consider making a video showing your overall collection? Would be interesting to see what company overalls you own and how you acquired them.
Although to be fair, It may just be me with an overall fascination. When I was a wee boy my cousin and his brother both got overalls that were race style and had all the cool race badges and Castrol logos ect and I wanted them so badly I guess it just stuck with me.
Fior me the trigger was the local council workers wearing baggy blue or orange nylon boilersuits. I just really wanted to be a worker and have an overall like they did. The irony being that the exact style of overall that started my collection is one that I don't have.
bigclivedotcom my dad was a refrigeration engineer during the early years of his career for sea going containers and I guess I grew up around overalls and dockers boots at all the dock locations including Grangemouth and I did think they were cool too. Have you ever tried to locate the type / style that started you off? Maybe put a shout out on your channel I am sure someone would have some knocking about.
@@mavos1211 It was a long time ago that the style was changed by the company, which still exists. I'm talking around 1980. I did see some in our electrical workshop at the steelworks but didn't have the courage to ask for a pair.
bigclivedotcom fortune favours the bold Clive, Next time you are there wait for the right time ( Friday afternoon is good when it’s nearly the weekend ) and ask, your such a great guy I really can’t see them refusing you a pair and if it’s touch and go Maybe offer to buy a pair from them? ( or swap a pair for more modern dickies ) I really hope you do, please keep me informed I would be really happy for you if it works out. mavos2@yahoo.co.uk
Nice thing about the pyrethroids is that they also got repellent properties for some time even in low concentrations. So insects don't even come close in the first place. I have a few spots around the house that attract spiders (ok, no insect, but still works) within days of removing the last one. I just sprayed a little tetramethrin/permethrin based insect killer onto the wall right in those places and the spots stay spider free for weeks or month.
Big Clive goes around tickling flies feet to see if they beat their wings lol. Ellaibaba, he can't spell lol. I sort of like the red one and even the Chinese one. Very good Clive, excellent review. I never though of them working like this with that component, but I never though about it. lol
I wonder if those Gold moths are sensitive to aromatic Cedar as is used to protect clothes in Cedar chests or wardrobes? If so, Cedar draws Zero watts in use, and no risk of shock or fire.
The one that uses the plant oils is likely citronella (which is derived from lemongrass). If so, it works by masking the odors of CO2 and lactic acid so mosquitos can't detect people
I once had a bunch of UV LEDs and a 50W fan... most badass insect shredder and at 65dBc, you will not hear any midges making for pleasent sleep. Used it to clear the room, then shut it down and went to bed.
I think these devices would become more popular if they had a light to show when they are working, and a flashing light to show when to refill with transfluthrin and of course a phone charger too!
Mosquito Magnet products work in Finland exceptionally well, tho they are quite expensive. A "small" machine can clear up your whole garden of mosquitos.
I think the period is just there to show that Rs is an abbreviation of Rupees. Given that India was once part of the empire they are very particular about their p's and q's.
There was no rupee symbol until recently. So the shortened for Rs was used. Some people would put a dot to indicate the shortening. It's not ₹0.99. That wouldn't be enough for anything more than a cough drop.
Maybe an overalls video in the pipeline. Fabric eating moth season has begun,oh joy. I've noticed many small moths in the conservatory where the towels dry. I nuke the shed in July as that is apparently woodworm flying bug season. Concentrated citronella is available from farm supplies on eBay.
something very weird happening with youtube 'up next' algorithm here.. for some reason it's showing me loads of videos about kids playing. if I try another subscriber video (all my subs are clive type things - codys labs, pbs eons, etc) they are all fine - it's just Clive's vid. very weird. anyone else getting this ?
Moth balls maybe those seem to work. Kansas finally thawed then flooded warmed then rained then snowed now its nice today. Bugs were spotted 4 days ago. So great timing on this video.
Moth balls used to be a block of material that gradually vapourised into the air. Now they're just plaster pellets with a hint of camphor infused into them. It looks like they're lasting for ages until you realise that they're basically fake.
@@bigclivedotcom my mom still uses them, And your right they do disappear. Funny note, she found an old box of them like 10 yeats old in a sealed box, so her thinking was they were weak so when she put them out she doubled the amounts she normally puts out, needless to say it was way to much, we all suffered the next few days running around trying to pick them up. That was 6 months ago the balls are about the size of a pill or pea some, in the garage are about rice sized.
@@bigclivedotcom The mothballs stateside, at least in the midwest, are not camphor. Napthalene or or some similar replacement to it. They work but they also stink and probably are pretty bad for human health too. I wouldn't use them. There is Probably good reason you guys have fake plaster ones.
We use that good night one, it might irritate throat if used daily in older people. We generally put it on in closed room for half hour or so then. When open it for bit and then use room.
Here on in the US pacific NW, we call those midges, "no-see-ums." Nasty little buggers. We also have chiggers- they leave a painful weal where they bite you. They're a type of mite.
Chiggers are called harvest mites in the UK, not really talked about much but they're getting more common with the long hot summers, last year was particularly bad.
I am sure you would find the newer mosquito vapouriser - Power+fan from Allout (SC Johnson company) much more interesting. It has a fan that blows over the exposed part of the refill to increase air flow rate (forced convection) for faster vaporization. The units that you show here use natural air convection. I recently got a unit to reverse engineer and have not opened it yet. I am sure you can do a video on that to cover how they step down the AC voltage to power a brushless DC fan under a cost of 1 pound! This unit has no screws and is totally held in place by plastic welding! so opening the unit would destroy the outer casing.
Before the Rupee symbol was created (which was very recently), India just wrote Rupees 40 or whatever. Rupees got abbreviated to Rs. The dot signifies the abbreviation
For some reason i still have a fear of truly what specific chemicals are within the liquids by manufacturers from China & India with Nation's their past track records.
permethrin is synthetic, a man-made chemical in laboratories, but pyrethrum is a completely natural chemical acquired from a certain species of flowers called chrysanthemum.
Wow, I did not know that, you my friend, across the pond, are chocked full of knowledge. I have been a sub for quite some time now and do enjoy your knowledge. Do you have any intentions on doing a video on sensors especially for cars.
For ticks and other critters, I use an 0.5% solution of permethrin in a spray bottle. I spray the dogs, my clothes and shoes. Ticks this time of year can be very troublesome. I buy my permethrin as a concentrate at the local farm supply store. Doubtless it would also work with your moth problem, simply sprayed onto clothes. The stuff is quite safe being based on chemicals found in the chrysanthemum, but like all things, don't overdo. Low-tech solution that doesn't involve taking the stuff into one's lungs.
Are these PTC elements the same as those now used in some cars to heat up the cabin quickly? One post I saw said the device on his/her Mondeo draws 80amps... If so, I guess they come in different sizes! (Check out your Mum's Skoda?)
80 amps from a 12v car electrical system may sound a lot, but it's a very low amount of heat compared to the conventional cabin heater that uses engine coolant, which are in the range of 5-10kW.
here in the states back when Air Wick™ with the whole oils just started the boom in the 2000s I seem to remember the caps being all kinds of colors, mostly depending on the associated color of the fragrance. ie purple for grape and lavender or red for strawberry and cinnamon etc that said, it was mostly just one company with one model and 20 odd years so my memory could be faulty so IDK.
British isles don't seem to believe in window screens. Here in the humid New England, they're the first line of defense against bugs. When the sun goes down, the bats come out and we go inside.
James Van Damme - we do have insect screens, but the type you hang up on Velcro stripes around the window frame on the inside, some have the black and silver sides to increase privacy and sunlight reflection. Also ones in striped form that are hung over ex. doors
Product contains uninsulated (presumably) neutral wire inside fragile plastic housing. Big Clive 10:38 : let me just demonstrate the benefit of unidirectional plugs by quickly swapping live and neutral here XD
Would your lemon grass be citronella? It's the natural oil that I added to candles for camping and outdoor dining. It disguised the human smells that attracted the mosquitoes and other little biters quite effectively.
I had quite an infestation of flour moths. The best option I found was pheromone sticky pads. They went crazy over them, and within a few months, they all were absolutely gone, not a single moth anymore. Good effect, it only targets the bug you want, not all of them. Also, mesh on windows work better than any of this liquid stuff (not outside of course). Just my five cents. :P
I think it’s Vicks do one that you slide a little single use cartridge into and it smells like Vicks vapour rub for when your child has a cold and they can’t breathe very well at night
I've had that on both electronics channels and also in the past on forgotten weapons (mostly features old or interesting somewhat modern firearms when possible taking them apart showing the mechanics inside). So I suspect it might have something to do all of these being "educational" tagged or something and RUclips which is quite inept at handling things properly with its algorithms figures explanations for young kids are the same as complicated mechanical/electrical things.
Indian here, yes that's 85 rupees. Period is just their to show it's an abbreviation. They don't really earn anything from selling these devices(I guess they probably lose some money). But their refills are much costlier around Rs 65, so that's where they earn from, specially with these advanced machines as they only fit refills made for it.
Two alternatives: You can use hair-spray to turn a fly into a glide, and with the amount of midges you get is some places in Scotland I would recommend a Phalanx CIWS. Bit loud but it will kill the little gits.
I've just noticed that the Hopi looks remarkably similar to the dilorian time machine's time readout display. Nice. Also, thank you for introducing me to the term "cockwobble".
@@bigclivedotcom there is also a mug you can buy with the definition. I have called people "plantpot" for years as this was the most offensive inoffensive term I had. Cockwobble has top trumped that, thank you. Also love the channel, keep up the good work. Sorry, autocorrect is still a pain to me. "Cockwomble"
if you have problems with moths, get a piece of cedar. You might have to rough it up every 1-2 years with a bit of sandpaper but you don't have to buy any (expensive) chemicals.
The most annoying thing with the Indian brands is that the re-fills are not inter-compatible... Sometimes within the same company different models have different sized re-fills. If the unit is costly, you may be forced to buy a costlier re-fill. We don't use them much anymore but a little trick is to just pull out the centre hard wick and pour in the refill from another re-fill 🤪
Most of the units (often labeled as electronic liquid vaporiser) can use common refills and that includes some perfumes too. I do not care the brand when I buy the refill because it has always fit...
Clive, did you say that Indian vapouriser killed Wombles :-( Poor Wombles, they may have tidied up old cloths but I don't think they ate holes in them.
after stripping the plastic of your insulater screwdrivers, paint the exposed shaft with a couple of coats of clear nail varnish to give some protection from accidental (low-energy) shorts - it will crack off with wear so inspect and re-apply every now and then - better than nothing
We do have a huge issue with mozzies, horse and deer flies where I live in Shropshire... you should have seen the deer fly bite I got on my arm this summer. Anyway, I found some pyrethrin impregnated combat trousers. Fabby things, wish I'd bought 20 pairs and would love to get the same in a shirt. I've never been able to find out which army they were made for 😔
Also have huge midge/midgefly population here(Nevada, USA). However, not sure if same critter or just colloquially called the same thing. Doesnt really bother us too much though, as the dont have mouth parts.
Holy crap, for €7.60 you could have bought 6 units, however I don't know about the shipping costs. We Indians used Rs. for Rupees and Re. for Rupee. The dot is a part of the abbreviation. Now we use the symbol ₹. Namaskar from India.
It's all about the exchange rate and cost of living. That's still a good price here and if it gives the Indian seller a good mark up then I'm fine with that.
Concerning mosquitoes in the UK being a problem or not, that depends where you live. I live on the Wirral but several miles from any water. However to be green the Wirral councils stopped spraying stagnant water caused by the Dee flooding, quite some years ago. In hot summers there is a mosquito problem now on the Wirral with many people being bit in their gardens.
I lived in India for a year for work, and put one of those guys in every available outlet when I was staying in places not named Hyatt, Le Meridian, or Taj. They worked. The Malaria monsters would just sit on the walls. I also recommend using 40% Deet as shampoo and laundry detergent. At least you'll live long enough to die from a bus running you off a cliff.
Clive's house is now bug free and in a no "fly" zone until 2031. Lol
It's rupees 85, the dot was for Rs. abbreviation. Now it's changed to INR. instead of RS.
Also, the smallest coin you can get is 50 paise (0.5 rupees, about 0.5 penny).
@@katrinabryce Not any more. It's 1 now.
Oh, Clive!
You KNOW we want to see your collection of over-alls, now, don't you?
Put em on!! Put em on!! Put em on!!
Not the arseless ones, the safe-for-work ones.
Arseless? Ohmyy.
Are we talking like a calendar?
11:20 "And they kill mosquitoes, moths, and cockwombles". As a child of the 1970s I grew up reading the Wombles books. I remember the Common Womble of Wimbledon Common, the Water-Womble of the Scottish Highlands, and the Yeti-Womble of the Himalayas, but cockwombles were not discussed in children's books.
quite a few other threats to children weren't being discussed by the BEEB in the 70s
joinedupjon such as?
@@Sinjinator They're probably talking about all the kids show hosts later discovered to have been sexually abusing kids in the 70's (e.g. Jimmy Saville)
Visit any online forum dealing with politics and you'll find the term "cockwomble" used repeatedly.
Could do with plugging a few of these in around Westminster ......
The green British one is most likely citronella oil, which is distilled from a couple of lemongrass species (but lemongrass itself does not work!!!) It works differently to the pyrethrum clones, it masks the CO2 source that certain insects use to home in on its prey. Its safe to use on skin which pyrethrum is not. Also can be used on animals as a deterrent, Kevin Richardson (The Lion Whisperer) uses it on his cats.
@TO NO You are majorly misrepresenting the facts. web.archive.org/web/20150628082005/www.hse.gov.uk/press/record/2006/dt250906.htm
@TO NO sheep dips are organophosphate based - totally different than permethrin - you could drink a cup of permethrin and be fine but do the same with an OP and you win a free trip to ICU
@TO NO And another one that spouts BS. "big pharma just pays, while the super healthy natural stuff is suppressed". Sure...
Citronellol is not really effective. It is probably responsible for a bunch malaria cases each year because someone used it instead of actual insecticide.
Yup, anyone with actual mosquito issues knows that in reality citronella candles and oils due practically nothing, even in large quantities for mosquitos. @@AstralS7orm
What is happening to my reccomended list. Dear god. Why are there only kids shows and "kids" toy review channels? CLIVE what have you done?
Good to know it's not just me :P Clives hacked the system!!!
I'm getting the same thing. I immediately checked my history to check that nobody's been watching kids shows behind my back
Me Too!
Same here
Yeah i was wondering the same thing, but then i remembered what blue shirt kid said, and now i've got the pikachu "oh" face on
Additionally on the pyrethrin thing: Mammals have an enzyme that breaks the pyrethrin down fairly quickly; insects and other animals do not. It still affects nerve cells in people and other mammals, but unless you are exposed to enough of it to stop you breathing (a LOT) it's mainly an inconvenience. I spilled some on my hand one time and it was unpleasantly tingly for an hour or so, but I've suffered zero permanent effects at all.
Cats lack the enzyme UGT1 to break it down
As far as you know.
"...but I've suffered zero permanent effects at all."
I did the same, and I am fine, other than a tendency to flit round the room bashing in to the standard lamp repeatedly... and the compulsive need to regurgitate on to my food to make it more digestible... but we wont mention those minor effects. ruclips.net/video/OnIXXe83fe4/видео.html
It is 85 Rs which is MRP, you can get 5 Rs discount locally, comes around 1.2USD. The price is basically of the liquid bottle, the machines are sold virtually free of cost in India. Its a clever marketing, because these machines can be used with the same brand bottles only, and so the refill you will require every 20-30 days or so, makes it recover the cost for the machine by the company.
Bro even mosquitoes vaping now wtf
I purchased a dungarees type carhartt overall two weeks ago; absolutely amazing ! Total game changer for me - no more builder's bum :)
The 'Good Knight' branded one is manufactured by Godrej which is an enormous company manufacturing consumer appliances of all sorts and other stuff. They have been around since the late 1800's and they have an enviable and very well deserved reputation in India. I would trust their products more than most others. They haven't lasted over 100 years as consumer goods manufacturer by playing fast and loose with safety.
It does seem a very robust unit.
all-out actually kills mosquito and other insects instead of disabling them as it contains kerosene
And its 85₹
Just one refill (one bottle) is 70-80 INR (current price) and the 85 INR was a very old stock being sold via ebay.
A friend who suffered from gout once bought some pyrethrin based meds from t'internet. He concluded the side effects were unpleasant but insects left him alone.
Topical pyrethrin? It's usually used as lice infestation shampoo, where it is washed of quickly. I hope he didn't spray it on himself.
I used to smoke like a chimney, insect's left me alone too...
I got the impression he took it internally but probably not. His gout cleared up when he cut down on sugary drinks.
You probably mean powdered pyrethrum plants, they sell it as herbal cures, still toxic, and does nothing medical but not as dangerous as taking pure pyrethrins.
Cockwomble. noun: Someone who is incompetent or inept; a person of little tact; a person with considerable overconfidence in their abilities, or lacks self awareness. LOL i love it!
It is an excellent word.
I wonder if 'twatwomble' exists, or is it too close to 'twatwaffle'?
SigEpBlue -😆
A middle-class version of fuckwit then?
Finally, a single word to describe the majority of the population.
Possibly even better than ‘sheeple’.
@@blackcountryme quite the opposite. A cockwomble is a sub par fuckwit. That said, the current government is full of cockwombles
"People complaining that it didn't light up, and that's largely because it didn't have a light in it" Gold lol
I have seen a device VERY similar to that Indian one, here in Spain, some years ago. The brand I use DO also have two positions, but the icons next to the 3-position switch show the "I" setting marked with a flower and a mosquito, and the "II" marked with two flowers, indicating that it's not meant to be used to kill/annoy insects. They are rated 5w.
Good Knight is a well established brand in the mosquito repellent industry here in India, and has been around for several decades. Repellents like this are pretty much a requirement when living in tropical climates like India's. If anything, people complain that these repellents are too weak. I've heard that if these things actually killed mosquitoes, they would have a PR disaster on their hands. Not because people love mosquitoes, but because people would extrapolate and decide that it's too toxic for home use.
Rs. (with the period) is an abbreviation for Rupees, so that's 85 rupees. You might also see the new-ish unicode symbol ₹ being used. A hundredth of a rupee, a paisa, is too weak now, and has fallen out of common use.
I wonder how much International shipping costs the Indian eBay sellers. For me to ship something like this to India would cost about 800 Rupees by basic untracked airmail.
Looks like it starts at about Rs. 200 (so about £3) for a 20 cm^3 package weighing 250 gms, from India to mainland UK. This price estimate is from the postal service, which is typically reliable but might not be the fastest. www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/CalculatePostage.aspx I'm surprised it's that cheap, to be honest. Just checked FedEx, and they give an estimate of just under Rs. 4,000, which borders on robbery, but you'd get predictable delivery times.
You should look into "allout ultra" it has a lot more features than "good night" like a 8 hour timer and an "ultra mode" that turns the power super high for an hour and has a slide to select the precise power. My family had bunch of them and I distinctly remember how hard it was to find the refills for them.
I've used, limitedly, some stuff called permethrin which is a member of the pyrethrin family. I use it for ticks, which are a big problem where I live. I mention this because permethrin is highly toxic to cats and fish. Something to keep in mind. But it is effective against ticks - I use it on clothes, applying it and letting it dry. Never want it wet on skin, I believe.
Technically it is toxic to most, if not all, animals, but most mammals are not affected by reasonable dosages because we possess an enzyme that very rapidly neutralizes and metabolizes the toxin which quickly removes it from circulation, thus protecting us from exposure. Cats, however, lack that enzyme as it’s been lost or become inactive in their genetics so you have to be careful about the dose a cat can receive versus most mammals (though cats can still tolerate low levels without harm, but those low levels are like 1% of what most mammals can safely tolerate by weight, if I recall correctly). That enzyme is why sedating the human patient that tried to commit suicide by drinking the fluid was sufficient to likely avoid lasting harm, they just had to bide time for the body to produce more enzyme and complete deactivating/metabolizing the toxin after the initial dose likely overwhelmed the body’s ability to metabolize it in near real time. It’s much like our tolerance for alcohol that is toxic to most other mammals because we possess enzymes to deactivate and metabolize alcohol in the liver relatively quickly and that is rare in mammals outside of primates (it turns out some primates also enjoy alcohol and even exhibit similar rates of alcoholism to humans).
@@ethanpoole3443 That's profoundly interesting. Thanks Ethan. It makes me wonder about the many ways medicines must operate to manage a target problem. (But now I worry that Clive experiment with drinking some to see if he can test the process in some way. [wink])
It's actually rupees 85 (₹85). The dot after Rs is used because Rs is short for rupees. Now a days, ₹ is used instead of Rs.
As I remember, pyrethrum was originally extracted from a chrysanthemum native Borneo, Java, Malaysia - somewhere in that area. Since this was not available to the USA during WW II as a source of supply, DDT was developed to take its place. For this reason reason, I've always thought of pyrethrum as an insecticide - an insect-specific nerve poison, acting on the synapses.
0.99 Indian Rupee would equal 0.011 Pound Sterling, so I bet it's meant to be 99 Indian Rupee or 1.09 Pound Sterling.
Also 85 Rupee would be 94 pence.
Yeah it is, I think the '.' is just to show its an abbreviation of 'Rupees'. I recently got back to London after a month working in India 👍
@Eevel Ewe 1 Mexican Peso equals
3.58 Indian Rupee.
If you meant Pedros we don't do slavery round these parts, ya hear?
@@Kinkajou1015 well played sir.
@@Kinkajou1015 LoL
@Kinkajou1015 yes it is 99 rupees
The best solution for moths is to use the fly tongue catchers (or fly paper). You hang it at the corners of doors near the potential source. I stumbled upon this by chance. I received a small pack of 4 from someone, and decided to do it for nostalgia reasons, flies aren't exactly an issue because of screens. So i hung them in various places, one such place being right near my clothes rack at the entrance, but i couldn't put it in the middle of the road and the ceiling has a bike rack. So, door corner to wall it was. The thing was caked in moths in under half a year. All of it. It's actually...disturbing since some still move until they die. Have repeated the process near the other clothes in the house, same effect.
Rest assured, those Indian repellants are quite good... I've seen paralyzed ants underneath. I don't use them anymore since I'm able to import 'deet' based repellants
Is anyone else getting only kids toy channels in the recommendations on this video, and ONLY this video
Yes, I seem to be getting that as well.
Hopefully, it's just RUclips's usual shenanigans.
Same here for some strange reason
I was afraid it was only me and was wondering what I had watched to create such horror.
Pyrethrins are based on extracts that come from Chrysanthemums. Having Chrysanthemums in your yard can discourage ants.
Hi Clive,
Would you consider making a video showing your overall collection?
Would be interesting to see what company overalls you own and how you acquired them.
Although to be fair, It may just be me with an overall fascination.
When I was a wee boy my cousin and his brother both got overalls that were race style and had all the cool race badges and Castrol logos ect and I wanted them so badly I guess it just stuck with me.
Fior me the trigger was the local council workers wearing baggy blue or orange nylon boilersuits. I just really wanted to be a worker and have an overall like they did. The irony being that the exact style of overall that started my collection is one that I don't have.
bigclivedotcom my dad was a refrigeration engineer during the early years of his career for sea going containers and I guess I grew up around overalls and dockers boots at all the dock locations including Grangemouth and I did think they were cool too.
Have you ever tried to locate the type / style that started you off? Maybe put a shout out on your channel I am sure someone would have some knocking about.
@@mavos1211 It was a long time ago that the style was changed by the company, which still exists. I'm talking around 1980. I did see some in our electrical workshop at the steelworks but didn't have the courage to ask for a pair.
bigclivedotcom fortune favours the bold Clive,
Next time you are there wait for the right time ( Friday afternoon is good when it’s nearly the weekend ) and ask, your such a great guy I really can’t see them refusing you a pair and if it’s touch and go Maybe offer to buy a pair from them? ( or swap a pair for more modern dickies )
I really hope you do, please keep me informed I would be really happy for you if it works out.
mavos2@yahoo.co.uk
Nice thing about the pyrethroids is that they also got repellent properties for some time even in low concentrations. So insects don't even come close in the first place. I have a few spots around the house that attract spiders (ok, no insect, but still works) within days of removing the last one. I just sprayed a little tetramethrin/permethrin based insect killer onto the wall right in those places and the spots stay spider free for weeks or month.
In larger quantities pyrethrin and it derivatives will kill most if not all insects. Beatles, wasps, cockroaches, grasshoppers, etc.
So it had nothing to do with Yoko Ono after all!
Big Clive goes around tickling flies feet to see if they beat their wings lol. Ellaibaba, he can't spell lol. I sort of like the red one and even the Chinese one.
Very good Clive, excellent review. I never though of them working like this with that component, but I never though about it. lol
Is anyone else's recommended videos list full of kids stuff on this video? It's only this video that has them, and that's on both my laptop and phone.
Android is the same
I wonder if those Gold moths are sensitive to aromatic Cedar as is used to protect clothes in Cedar chests or wardrobes?
If so, Cedar draws Zero watts in use, and no risk of shock or fire.
Jay Littleton unless you light the block of cedar on fire, that is
The one that uses the plant oils is likely citronella (which is derived from lemongrass). If so, it works by masking the odors of CO2 and lactic acid so mosquitos can't detect people
I once had a bunch of UV LEDs and a 50W fan... most badass insect shredder and at 65dBc, you will not hear any midges making for pleasent sleep.
Used it to clear the room, then shut it down and went to bed.
I could almost smell the chemicals watching this. How are you dealing with them with bare hands? He's one in a billion.
I think these devices would become more popular if they had a light to show when they are working, and a flashing light to show when to refill with transfluthrin and of course a phone charger too!
Mosquito Magnet products work in Finland exceptionally well, tho they are quite expensive. A "small" machine can clear up your whole garden of mosquitos.
Also available here named the midge magnet.
@@bigclivedotcom Gotta love all that generic stuff that they sell with different brand names. :)
Clive I've never seen as many toy channels on my entire time on RUclips as I see right now in your "up next" list.
Yes
Weird. I wonder if it's based on the image looking like a toy spaceship.
Yeah, it's 85 Rupees, I not Indian but Bangladesh and no way it'd be as low as Rs 0.85 .
We don't write Rs for rupees, we write "Rs." The dot is a part of it.
I think the period is just there to show that Rs is an abbreviation of Rupees. Given that India was once part of the empire they are very particular about their p's and q's.
yes, u are right, ₹ is another symbol for it.
You are absolutely right. I am from India. However now we are using ₹ instead of Rupees, like €, $ etc.
@@rahulgkhs I love that symbol! ₹
There was no rupee symbol until recently. So the shortened for Rs was used. Some people would put a dot to indicate the shortening. It's not ₹0.99. That wouldn't be enough for anything more than a cough drop.
04:04 It's Rs.- Rupees. And ₹85
Is roughly about 1.2 USD.
But how does it vaporize the mosquito? You didn't clarify that! :(
Aimless Idiot you mean how do the mosquitoes vape
Maybe an overalls video in the pipeline. Fabric eating moth season has begun,oh joy. I've noticed many small moths in the conservatory where the towels dry. I nuke the shed in July as that is apparently woodworm flying bug season.
Concentrated citronella is available from farm supplies on eBay.
something very weird happening with youtube 'up next' algorithm here.. for some reason it's showing me loads of videos about kids playing. if I try another subscriber video (all my subs are clive type things - codys labs, pbs eons, etc) they are all fine - it's just Clive's vid. very weird. anyone else getting this ?
Yes. Had the same issue once before.
Same here, the entire list is children's games.
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Yep, it happens on random videos for me too. One was a Demolition Ranch video, which is very much not a childrens channel :)
@@edwardhugus2772 is it because he mentioned Wombles (cock?) In the video? 😃
From the thumbnail I thought this was a jetpack
(I am /exceptionally/ drunk, cut me some slack)
Doctor Bag PhD Me too! It looked like some red retro sci-fi rocket! And I'm sadly sober...
Is there no thin phosphorus film that can be used to unflicker the led display?
Bloody annoying, isn't it? I wish he'd get the same device John Ward uses.
Moth balls maybe those seem to work. Kansas finally thawed then flooded warmed then rained then snowed now its nice today. Bugs were spotted 4 days ago. So great timing on this video.
Moth balls used to be a block of material that gradually vapourised into the air. Now they're just plaster pellets with a hint of camphor infused into them. It looks like they're lasting for ages until you realise that they're basically fake.
@@bigclivedotcom my mom still uses them, And your right they do disappear. Funny note, she found an old box of them like 10 yeats old in a sealed box, so her thinking was they were weak so when she put them out she doubled the amounts she normally puts out, needless to say it was way to much, we all suffered the next few days running around trying to pick them up. That was 6 months ago the balls are about the size of a pill or pea some, in the garage are about rice sized.
@@bigclivedotcom The mothballs stateside, at least in the midwest, are not camphor. Napthalene or or some similar replacement to it. They work but they also stink and probably are pretty bad for human health too. I wouldn't use them. There is Probably good reason you guys have fake plaster ones.
How do the moths fly with those balls?
@@oscarbear1043 proudly.
Why don't you put overalls in plastic storage containers if they aren't being used or displayed?
I store some of them in sealed bags in the attic.
@@bigclivedotcom attic tour!!
Good gracious - we have cancer victims popping up in the middle of your videos now
We use that good night one, it might irritate throat if used daily in older people. We generally put it on in closed room for half hour or so then. When open it for bit and then use room.
Here on in the US pacific NW, we call those midges, "no-see-ums." Nasty little buggers. We also have chiggers- they leave a painful weal where they bite you. They're a type of mite.
Chiggers are called harvest mites in the UK, not really talked about much but they're getting more common with the long hot summers, last year was particularly bad.
I get chiggers in my back yard cause of the water dragons(big lizards like goannas) and chiggers itch like hell.
I am sure you would find the newer mosquito vapouriser - Power+fan from Allout (SC Johnson company) much more interesting. It has a fan that blows over the exposed part of the refill to increase air flow rate (forced convection) for faster vaporization. The units that you show here use natural air convection. I recently got a unit to reverse engineer and have not opened it yet. I am sure you can do a video on that to cover how they step down the AC voltage to power a brushless DC fan under a cost of 1 pound! This unit has no screws and is totally held in place by plastic welding! so opening the unit would destroy the outer casing.
I've just made that video. It will be released next week. The circuitry was very interesting.
@@bigclivedotcom Glad to hear that bigclive. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
Here's a sneak preview so you don't have to open yours.
ruclips.net/video/L49oHi_v07c/видео.html
Clive, Have you ever considered selling various bits and pieces by the pound ? Especially self tapping screws for plastics.
You should look at the new air wick essential oil piezo fresheners. Very neat inside.
Already made that video. They are based on the much older Glade wisp units.
They all look so beautiful!
I have a giant can of pyrethrin insect spray called Dr. Doom . expensive and deadly .
yeah that's all nice and that
but the real Question is
can it run Doom ?
RandomUserName Blasting a cloud of insects with the BFG9000 is quite effective.
Before the Rupee symbol was created (which was very recently), India just wrote Rupees 40 or whatever. Rupees got abbreviated to Rs. The dot signifies the abbreviation
For some reason i still have a fear of truly what specific chemicals are within the liquids by manufacturers from China & India with Nation's their past track records.
The products are all from fairly high profile international companies. Just regionally priced and themed.
The point is for the "Rs" as in Rs. being an abbreviation of Rupees.
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The dark green may be citronella based. A common lemony smelling plant sold in the U.S. for patios to deter mosquitoes. Tootles... Wade
It must have been answered already, but 'Rs.' is an abbreviation of Rupees, that explains why it ends with a period.
permethrin is synthetic, a man-made chemical in laboratories, but
pyrethrum is a completely natural chemical acquired from a certain species of
flowers called chrysanthemum.
Wow, I did not know that, you my friend, across the pond, are chocked full of knowledge. I have been a sub for quite some time now and do enjoy your knowledge. Do you have any intentions on doing a video on sensors especially for cars.
For ticks and other critters, I use an 0.5% solution of permethrin in a spray bottle. I spray the dogs, my clothes and shoes. Ticks this time of year can be very troublesome. I buy my permethrin as a concentrate at the local farm supply store. Doubtless it would also work with your moth problem, simply sprayed onto clothes. The stuff is quite safe being based on chemicals found in the chrysanthemum, but like all things, don't overdo. Low-tech solution that doesn't involve taking the stuff into one's lungs.
Are these PTC elements the same as those now used in some cars to heat up the cabin quickly? One post I saw said the device on his/her Mondeo draws 80amps... If so, I guess they come in different sizes! (Check out your Mum's Skoda?)
Similar idea if the car heaters are based on PTC ceramic.
80 amps from a 12v car electrical system may sound a lot, but it's a very low amount of heat compared to the conventional cabin heater that uses engine coolant, which are in the range of 5-10kW.
here in the states back when Air Wick™ with the whole oils just started the boom in the 2000s I seem to remember the caps being all kinds of colors, mostly depending on the associated color of the fragrance. ie purple for grape and lavender or red for strawberry and cinnamon etc
that said, it was mostly just one company with one model and 20 odd years so my memory could be faulty so IDK.
Clive, I don't know anything about these things .. but could you not upgrade the HOPI meter to not flicker on camera? 🤔 Could be an interesting video!
I don't think it's possible as the multiplex speed is set in software.
Rs. is an abbreviation of Rupee. Just how "Mr." is an abbreviation of Mister.
British isles don't seem to believe in window screens. Here in the humid New England, they're the first line of defense against bugs. When the sun goes down, the bats come out and we go inside.
James Van Damme - we do have insect screens, but the type you hang up on Velcro stripes around the window frame on the inside, some have the black and silver sides to increase privacy and sunlight reflection. Also ones in striped form that are hung over ex. doors
Product contains uninsulated (presumably) neutral wire inside fragile plastic housing.
Big Clive 10:38 : let me just demonstrate the benefit of unidirectional plugs by quickly swapping live and neutral here XD
I believe i saw the kind you can wear on your wrist at CVS years ago.
Would your lemon grass be citronella? It's the natural oil that I added to candles for camping and outdoor dining. It disguised the human smells that attracted the mosquitoes and other little biters quite effectively.
I had quite an infestation of flour moths. The best option I found was pheromone sticky pads. They went crazy over them, and within a few months, they all were absolutely gone, not a single moth anymore. Good effect, it only targets the bug you want, not all of them.
Also, mesh on windows work better than any of this liquid stuff (not outside of course). Just my five cents. :P
I think it’s Vicks do one that you slide a little single use cartridge into and it smells like Vicks vapour rub for when your child has a cold and they can’t breathe very well at night
Weirdly, RUclips's suggestion bar for this is filled up with kids' videos, at least for me. Has that happened to anyone else?
Same here. Ususally I get links to AvE, Electroboom and Fran Blanche - not this time though!
Same here, really strange...
Me too 🤔
Yes, not the first time this happens. Had it on a few videos over the last months (I think every time it was on electronics channels)
I've had that on both electronics channels and also in the past on forgotten weapons (mostly features old or interesting somewhat modern firearms when possible taking them apart showing the mechanics inside). So I suspect it might have something to do all of these being "educational" tagged or something and RUclips which is quite inept at handling things properly with its algorithms figures explanations for young kids are the same as complicated mechanical/electrical things.
Indian here, yes that's 85 rupees. Period is just their to show it's an abbreviation. They don't really earn anything from selling these devices(I guess they probably lose some money). But their refills are much costlier around Rs 65, so that's where they earn from, specially with these advanced machines as they only fit refills made for it.
Two alternatives: You can use hair-spray to turn a fly into a glide, and with the amount of midges you get is some places in Scotland I would recommend a Phalanx CIWS. Bit loud but it will kill the little gits.
Did it stop the two people who drank the liquid from chewing holes in clothes?
Also, were any animals killed or injured in the making of this film?
By the way Godrej uses prallethrin as mosquito repellent. It is a pyrethroid like you described.
I've just noticed that the Hopi looks remarkably similar to the dilorian time machine's time readout display. Nice.
Also, thank you for introducing me to the term "cockwobble".
That's cockwomble. There is a definition online.
@@bigclivedotcom there is also a mug you can buy with the definition. I have called people "plantpot" for years as this was the most offensive inoffensive term I had. Cockwobble has top trumped that, thank you. Also love the channel, keep up the good work.
Sorry, autocorrect is still a pain to me. "Cockwomble"
The red one seemed to be the best quality
Is there a t-shirt with the big clive logo and the words, "that's interesting"? Because I would buy that.
if you have problems with moths, get a piece of cedar. You might have to rough it up every 1-2 years with a bit of sandpaper but you don't have to buy any (expensive) chemicals.
The most annoying thing with the Indian brands is that the re-fills are not inter-compatible...
Sometimes within the same company different models have different sized re-fills. If the unit is costly, you may be forced to buy a costlier re-fill.
We don't use them much anymore but a little trick is to just pull out the centre hard wick and pour in the refill from another re-fill 🤪
Most of the units (often labeled as electronic liquid vaporiser) can use common refills and that includes some perfumes too. I do not care the brand when I buy the refill because it has always fit...
I wonder if careful decanting into an empty cartridge would work.
@@bigclivedotcom it works! Try it
Clive, did you say that Indian vapouriser killed Wombles :-(
Poor Wombles, they may have tidied up old cloths but I don't think they ate holes in them.
Only cockwombles. Ordinary wombles are fine.
The suggested videos list for this video is very weird...
after stripping the plastic of your insulater screwdrivers, paint the exposed shaft with a couple of coats of clear nail varnish to give some protection from accidental (low-energy) shorts - it will crack off with wear so inspect and re-apply every now and then - better than nothing
I used to put heatshrink over my bare shafts.
cypermethrin is my go to. It lasts a very long time if you keep it out of uv light.
Delta dust is even more potent
Knocks flies out of the air
We do have a huge issue with mozzies, horse and deer flies where I live in Shropshire... you should have seen the deer fly bite I got on my arm this summer. Anyway, I found some pyrethrin impregnated combat trousers. Fabby things, wish I'd bought 20 pairs and would love to get the same in a shirt. I've never been able to find out which army they were made for 😔
I've never heard of that. I wonder how long the pyrethrin lasts for.
Cool to see something from India for a change.
Don't forget cleg flies (Google cleg if you don't live in the uk) they bite through clothes as they are evolved to bite horses and cows with dense fur
We have them here. Horrible things.
Also have huge midge/midgefly population here(Nevada, USA).
However, not sure if same critter or just colloquially called the same thing.
Doesnt really bother us too much though, as the dont have mouth parts.
Is that what those are!? (Las Vegas, NV)
@@djstringsmusic2994 looks much like a mosquito but maybe a little smaller and dont bite?
@@robertjohnsonfox8829 Yes, thank you I've been wondering what those were for years!
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Holy crap, for €7.60 you could have bought 6 units, however I don't know about the shipping costs. We Indians used Rs. for Rupees and Re. for Rupee. The dot is a part of the abbreviation. Now we use the symbol ₹. Namaskar from India.
It's all about the exchange rate and cost of living. That's still a good price here and if it gives the Indian seller a good mark up then I'm fine with that.
Concerning mosquitoes in the UK being a problem or not, that depends where you live. I live on the Wirral but several miles from any water. However to be green the Wirral councils stopped spraying stagnant water caused by the Dee flooding, quite some years ago. In hot summers there is a mosquito problem now on the Wirral with many people being bit in their gardens.
I would have thought it would be very difficult to tell the sound of a mozzie and a Scallie apart on the Wirral. Both have an annoying whine. 🤭
So what do u think about Indian mosquito killer. Anyways I am using it for 8 years and is very good and works well
I'd buy a bigclivedotcom shirt that said, "There's no harm in being destructive."
I have terrible trouble with cockwombles (footprints in my ice cream!) so this video was a great help!
I see you have taken the unusual step of spelling the word correctly and incorrectly... 🤔