Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle...that's the same as with amateur radio equipment. If you buy a piece of used gear and the person who owned it before you was a smoker, the gear had that odor. Many people advertise equipmentent as being owned by a "non-smoker." Robert Kyle Cassidy wrote: >i bought a small camera bag and leica lens on rec.photo.forsale about six >years ago and it arrived giving off such a pervasive odor of cigarette smoke >that i could smell it through the box. probably assisted by the cloth of the >camera bag and the padding inside it, the package positively reeked. i was >very suprised that the _lens_ had a strong odor of cigarette smoke as well. >several days (three or four) of sitting on the back porch fixed the lens, >but the bag held the smell for a considerably longer time. in the end, i >removed the inserts and ran them through the wash which helped, and dabbed a >little bit of "old spice" in the camera bag, which did not help. > >later someone told me that a product called "fabrise" (sp?) is helpful for >removing the odor from things. > >i've recently also noticed items such as books on ebay with the tag "kept in >a non smoking house!" > >kc >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >