Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:49:09 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone
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That's funny! You hit the nail on the head.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Mike Collum wrote:
> 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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