Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:10:49 -0400
Reply-To: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone
In-Reply-To: <CAEOIPKOOCKNBBDDDMBPGEKKAKAB.vw.doka@gmail.com>
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You sound way too knowledgeable about this.
(If you can remember the '60s ... you weren't there)
Mike
VW Doka wrote:
> That's because the 'indoor growers' use them to control the odor of their
> 'crops'.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of John Rodgers
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 4:39 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone
>
>
> Gogle for "Ozone Generators" and also for "Ozone Generator Plans". You
> will get literally hundreds of hits on the topic.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Anthony Egeln wrote:
>> Where might one buy a store bought ozone generator?
>>
>> Anthony
>> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>>
>>
>> John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: The ozone generator is the way to
> go - store bought variety if possible,
>> due to the safety guards build in. Homemade generators work too. It is
>> amazing what they can do.
>>
>> I once had to de-fume a carpeted house where an old lady lived. How she
>> lived there I don't know. She smoked heavily and was a cat person - any
>> number of cats over a number of years. The combination of the heavy
>> smoke fumes and nicotine particulate in the house, combined with cat
>> pee and cat poop accumulated in the carpet over the years - it was
>> baaaaaad! Your body automatically stopped your breathing when the door
>> opened as a self preservation measure. I set a large ozone generator in
>> the place and ran it for two weeks straight. At the end of the two
>> weeks, you would never know anyone ever smoked in there or that any cat
>> had ever trod the carpet. After the defuming, the place was cleaned then
>> new carpet installed. The old carpet was burned for safety reasons. The
>> company that replaced the carpet didn't want whatever was in that carpet
>> exposed to anyone, so it was more or less cremated in a closed
> incinerator.
>> I don't know what long term - 5 days or more - exposure of ozone to the
>> plastics and rubber in a van might do, but for a couple of days I don't
>> imagine it would do much. And to really get rid of the smell, the ozone
>> would get into every nook and cranny since it is a gas.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>>
>> Tabe Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Auto detailers will use an air cleaner
>>> that produces Ozone. The free oxygen
>>> oxidizes (go figure) the nasty smelly
>>> hydrocarbons in the air.
>>>
>>> Don't breathe ozone, though. Bad for
>>> the lungs.
>>>
>>> I have used a "Living Air" air cleaner
>>> with good results in cars before.
>>>
>>>
>>> tabe johnson/87 westy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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