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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: vlady on January 04, 2007, 12:37:06 pm

Title: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: vlady on January 04, 2007, 12:37:06 pm

A moth has flown up in the control panel and died.  How can I get it out of there?
(http://www.vansworld.com/images/bug.jpg)

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: drewstar on January 04, 2007, 12:40:01 pm

looks like a software bug. Better call tech support.


Course. they'll tell you it's a feature.

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: RobRoy on January 04, 2007, 12:56:31 pm

How did that get in there. Removing the top side and shaking it out might be the only way. Its not that difficult to remove, and silicone it back into place.Labor wise maybe 1/2 hour.

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: tony on January 04, 2007, 01:48:53 pm

I've had it happen before...not a moth, but a smaller bug.  It disappeared on its own.

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: East_TX_Spa on January 04, 2007, 01:52:29 pm

I really want to know what the little eye on the bottom left is for.

Terminator (the Curious)

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: RUBADUBDUB on January 04, 2007, 02:00:39 pm

Term, Thats so you can INVERT the display screen. It allows people who can't read upside down to see what the temperature in the tub is when they are in it! ;)

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: East_TX_Spa on January 04, 2007, 02:16:24 pm

Cool!  Turn the display upside down, the moth will fall out, problem solved.

Terminator

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: vlady on January 04, 2007, 02:19:41 pm

No, no, no - that isn't what the button does.  That is the "beam me up" button.

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: RUBADUBDUB on January 04, 2007, 02:36:38 pm

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Cool!  Turn the display upside down, the moth will fall out, problem solved.

Terminator

I'm sorry I replied..... ;) ;D ;D

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: Zep on January 04, 2007, 02:51:54 pm

re: Thats so you can INVERT the display screen

That is an excellent idea!

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: East_TX_Spa on January 04, 2007, 03:02:04 pm

The Tiger River Spas display does the same thing.  I'm trying to catch me a moth in my Caspian to see if it will work.  So far, I ain't caught nothing.

Term

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: wmccall on January 04, 2007, 03:04:45 pm

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No, no, no - that isn't what the button does.  That is the "beam me up" button.

I was thinking it was for the ejection seat.

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: Zep on January 04, 2007, 03:17:58 pm

re:  I'm trying to catch me a moth in my Caspian to see if it will work.  
So far, I ain't caught nothing

Terminator ...take all them moth balls out from inside your spa shell...
you'll catch one!

(http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour/images/moth.jpg)

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: East_TX_Spa on January 04, 2007, 03:22:35 pm

I always wondered how difficult it would be to get a vasectomy if you were a moth.

Terminator

Title: Re: How can I get rid of this bug?
Post by: tanstaafl2 on January 04, 2007, 06:45:48 pm

If it got in there has to be a hole somewhere. If you can see the backside of the panel from inside the tub when you remove the outside siding and can find anything that might be the access point the bug went in through perhaps you can put a vacuum on the bottom and suck the little bugger out of there? Might need to use a bit of rubber like an "O" ring to create enough vacuum. But if the surface isn't very flat probably won't work. Can't recall off the top of my head what the bottom side of the control panel looks like and it is probably different from yours even if I could.

Assuming you can find a hole in the first place!