[Rhodes22-list] Question - Fish Smell

[thenacarville at bellsouth.net]

Brad,
On second thought, the febreeze in place of the odo ban might be a good idea....
Thena




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> From: <thenacarville at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2006/09/13 Wed PM 10:46:43 CDT
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Question - Fish Smell
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> Brad,
> Had a Montego in the 70's that I dumped a large ice chest of fresh shrimp in the back seat...reeked for months....smelled for over a year....actually had hitch hikers refuse to get in....best advice for you is to go to Sam's and get some Odo Ban...use it full strength on the leak...get the strongest wet/dry vac you can and suck the cleaner out (make it as dry as humanly possible)....then add some water to the odo ban and do it again....then one more time with a milder solution...then put a dehumidifier in the vehicle with the windows closed tightly....get it as dry as humanly possible....after the first part is finished, get atleast one pound of coffee (doesn't matter what brand...just ground coffee beans) and put it in a container that won't let it spill but leaves it open enough in the space to absorb the odor....(some professional shrimpers clean their ice chests, dry them, fill them with crumpled news papers sprinkled with coffee to absorb the odor...it works)...you might
>   even use some of the crumpled newspaper....the car has to be kept tightly closed to make this part work...change it out after a couple of weeks.....hope it works for you....the smell really did last over a year....and everytime it got damp again, the smell would return....drove with the windows down for the first time in my life that summer...the smell was unbelievable.....good luck...I feel your pain.....
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> > 
> > From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2006/09/13 Wed PM 08:02:26 CDT
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Question - Fish Smell
> > 
> > Help me out here boys and girls.  We stopped a fishmarket leaving Gulfport
> > Sunday and bought 15 pounds of the biggest shrimp I've ever seen.  Our
> > cooler would only hold five pounds so the store owner packed the rest in
> > plastic bags with ice.  One of the bags must have broken and leaked shrimp
> > water in the trunk.  I pulled out the trunk liner and carpet, pressure
> > washed it, and let them dry in the sun.  The smell still permeated the pax
> > cabin.  Then I poured two pounds of scented baking soda in the spare tire
> > compartment and left it for 36 hours.  The car smelled like flowers for a
> > day and then like shrimp wearing perfume. That has since been vacuumed
> > out. I've been leaving the trunk and windows open overnight but it doesn't
> > seem to make much difference.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a sure-fire method of fumigating a car?  I'm getting a bit
> > weary of driving a car that smells like the shit-house door on a tuna boat.
> > 
> > Brad
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