Removing smoker smells from hardware?

Well probes are not exactly expensive...

As for the USB Scope, perhaps give it a gentle spray or wipe over with a fabric refresher? SWMBO'd uses Febreze fabric refresher with reasonable success but on fabrics not hard surfaces. She's not a great fan of artifical scents so I suspect you can get these refreshers "sans parfum" or at least with something overpowering.

No, sure, but I'd rather not replace them if I don't have to, given they are nearly new (as in usage). I think they are quite good, X1/X10 switch and with a matching capacitor thing in the plug.

As mentioned, the (ally) sleeve case has been washed in hot water and I think that be is pretty good now (I'm guessing it's down to the permeability of the smell molecules that impact how persistent / resistant to cleaning it stuff is).

It's one of these OOI:

(Did you know that slavery is banned these days Dave? <g>)

Yeah, I've used that on fabrics (and the room air fresheners) in the past ...

Nor am I, even requesting the Mrs put on any perfume as she goes out the front door, not in the bedroom etc. ;-)

Pre lockdown we visited daughter and she had a couple of those oil stick things in the lounge. I had to put a bag and electric band over them as they were making me cough and my eyes sting. Same with a particular brand of hand cream the Mrs would sometimes apply and I could tell she had done it as soon as I walked in the room. ;-(

I smelled 'burning' in the house the other day and even went outside and sensed it a bit stronger. 10 mins later I saw a fire engine go past.

I should have some white vinegar and baking soda on the way as they do seem to be regularly used (in various ways) so they may have some special properties.

Cheers, T i m

Yes I'm afraid this is the only way to do it. No I cannot explain it, but its obvious that there are micropores in most materials and these chemicals do get deep into materials, even if they appear hard. All I can say is if you can mask it, do so, but over a year or so, the smell does reduce, of course it might be that the senses just get used to it. Its a bit like if you have a dog in the house, you can tell as soon as you walk in, no matter how clean the house is. Brian

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Have you considered exorcism?

bleach is a good way to kill smoke smell

Bit odd, in that washing clothes gets rid of any tobacco smells. Of course since it's likely got ventilation slots, the inside bits could be coated too.

My sister bought a car ten years ago and after she'd paid noticed the smell of smoke. She tried everything, but every time I went in that car I could smell the smoke. She got rid of the car a couple of years ago.

I bought a reclining chair from the BHF 18 months ago, and despite all efforts it still sometimes smells of smoke.

Sometimes in the night I smell smoke, and when I look on the CCTV someone's walked past, presumably smoking.

Bill

If ordinary TV cable is permanently immersed in water the copper braid gets discoloured, and sometimes the cable becomes very lossy. Some installers run cables along gutters and if the gutter isn't draining properly and is nearly always full of water that's when it can happen. It also happens when pillocks run ordinary coax underground, unprotected. Also when underground cable is in a duct and the duct has a point lower than anywhere where it can drain.

This is why we have 'direct burial' cables of course.

Bill

Phantosmia.

stick it in an empty small room with an ioniser for a week....

Agreed. When I was running my mobile disco, the clothes would go straight in the clothes bin when I got in, and would smell Chan after being washed but 'kit', always seemed to carry the smell, even after being wiped down with a soapy cloth.

True, other than I took the insides out and wiped that down with a damp soapy cloth ... and the ally case actually never smelled as bad as say the PVC covered cables or the rubberised front and rear ends.

Lots of the Googled solutions to this seem to cover the absorption of the smell once it's left the device but my question was how can it continue to emit such, even after it's been thoroughly washed in hot soapy water?

I mean, if you could imprint wire with some other fragrance you could be onto some big money in the air freshener game!

Cheers, T i m

I know the issue.

You hear many people that do.

Yup, daughter bought a reclining chair locally when stepdaughter was first suffering from her cancer (3x enlarged kidney) and that came from the house of a smoker and still stinks now,. She keeps a throw over it but we might see if we can treat it with something (mind you, the dog seems to have adopted it as his chair so not so much of an issue).

Yup, I get the same and used to smell it when the guy next door smoked. When out in the back garden I know when another neighbour home worker is on a break as I can smell her dope (and judging how often I smell it it much cost her a bit)?

I can also often tell if anyone in any of the cars immediately ahead is smoking dope or a cigar etc (you can *see* them smoking a vape as it looks like a steam train)!

Cheers, T i m

Are you sure this animosity of yours isn't due to your moral disapproval of smoking?

I bet Victorian temperance enthusiasts spoke similarly about the odour of booze.

Animosity?

They may well have done, except I CGAF if someone wants to set fire to their money, till it impacts me, then I feel I have the right to have a say in the matter.

We have a human need to consume liquids, albeit without flavourings or alcohol, there is no need for us to suck smoke into our lungs and so doing so is their *personal* choice.

Just in the same way people carrying *personal music players* should keep them *personal*, and people using a *personal telephone* should do the same (and hence the need for 'quiet carriages', just like there was the need for non-smoking carriages, after enough people called for such).

I don't care about smoking, I care about having to smoke (when just going about my day-to-day business) or suffer the side effects of someone else's personal choice (just as I would someone causing an accident whist drink driving or not picking up after my dog and then someone else walking it it).

Cheers, T i m

Then you won't be in the least surprised to hear that your virtue-signalling campaign for a global vegan diet is treated in similar fashion by those you seek to 'convert'.