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A coat of car wax will probably be all the protection you need. It also protects from normal corrosion. But buff it completely clean--you don't want wax rubbing off on your wood stock. It might affect the ability to take a finish.
Or apply the wax immediately after spraying. You have to wait a half hour or so before ventilating the garage. Once it is ventilated you can simply wipe it down with cleaner or WD-40 or wax. I use butchers wax on my table top every 6 months or so. But I take care to wipe off all the excess completely.
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I've done it a couple of times without any prep and it seemed to have no effect on any of my tools.
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Never had an issue here, I bomb the shop once a year to kill spiders.
Ed
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get the ones that smokes-a dry fogger- rather than the ones that spray out a mist. i used these
https://www.raid.com/en-us/products/raid...dry-fogger
in our house due to spiders. set em off on friday and came home sunday. no residue on surfaces and spiders seem to be gone.
of course- i may have gone overboard- 4 in the basement, 4 on 1st floor, and 3 in the attic.
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Long story made short but years ago I helped my parents clean up a property they were selling. It was pretty bad. ~1500 sqft house, I think it only needed 2 bug bombs as per the directions. I did 7 plus 2 in the crawlspace. I started at the back of the house. 1 in each back bedroom, one in the master, 2 in the hall and 2 in the livingroom/kitchen area. then I closed the front door and we left it for a week. My mom said they went up there the next weekend and you couldn't walk anywhere in the house without crunching dead roaches.