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Post subject: Re: Smoke Smell
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:07 pm
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blues bondsman wrote:
Back to amplifiers :mrgreen:

I am blessed to have a huge sun porch on the back of my house with huge screen panels, When I get smokey smelling stuff, it lives out there for a few days, gets rid of about 90 % of the smell every time.

a few breezy days and its all gone ! well mostly.



A quick sun treatment is better. When you leave the gear outside for a few days, you leave the gear open to a barrage of dust, spores, mold, mildew, etc, stuff that can make things much, much worse. The quick sun treatment kills the aroma as well as some of the spores, mold, mildew, etc and the gear is not exposed to days of the elements!

If the material is so aged, and so stinky that there's no hope for sunnin' n' cleanin', there's no hope, either live with the smell or go for the gusto -- gut it and replace and clean everything till it smells new!


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Post subject: Re: Smoke Smell
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:17 pm
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Its a big room (had my old hot tub in there)

Nice big sliding windows with tight fine mesh screens too.

Two big sun roof bubble window doo dads too.

Any time we visit relatives that smoke our cloths go out there too.

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Post subject: Re: Smoke Smell
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:29 pm
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I rembemer a guy that had a BF Vibroverb that must have spent 25 years in a bar. EVERYTHING is is was saturated with that tarry crap. To clean it off. He took the chassis out. The speaker out (replaced it). Took the grille off (replaced it). Cleaned the and dried the cab several times at a do-it-yourself car wash place. Took all the breadboard off the chassis. All of the pots and jacks off. Cleans everything with 99% Isopropanol (several times). And contact cleaner. Put it all back together after thorough drying. And guess what? Still smelled like tobacco, esp when turned on. Not as bad, but there.

Imagine the lungs of the guy playing the amp?


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Post subject: Re: Smoke Smell
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:43 pm
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An energized amp chassis acts as a powerful electro-magnet which attracts, ionizes, then adheres free-floating nicotine particulates to the components within -- bakelite tube sockets, carbon-comp resistors, the cardboard hulls of the electrolytic caps, the fiber eyelet boards, switch contacts, everything.

That pantywaist was pissing in the wind......all he accomplished was destroy the amp's mojo. He should've spent his money on a new re-issue instead.

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Post subject: Re: Smoke Smell
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:41 pm
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Betcha never guess the whole thing was WAF driven. :)

Amp never really worked well after all the rig-a-roll. Lost that wonderful 'verb. And what's the use of having a VibroVerb with no 'verb?

On top of which they got divorced a few years later. What they day?

" Life's a Beetch, then you marry one. " :mrgreen:


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