Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:38:47 -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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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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