Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:54:49 -0700
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From: VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone
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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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