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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1305088794 Message started by Boule’tard on 05/10/11 at 21:39:54 |
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Title: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Boule’tard on 05/10/11 at 21:39:54 You know what I'm talkin' 'bout.. walk into a Harbor Freight and take a whiff. Most any rubber or plastic product out of China has a distinctive.. ahh.. reekage that nobody knows what it is. It's only meaning is cheep cheep stuff :D The internet doesn't seem to know, but the best explanation I could find is this: Quote:
I think I'll add a poll.. we MUST get to the bottom of this! ;D |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Serowbot on 05/10/11 at 23:39:17 A'right you snarky bastard... I'm gonna' say cosmo/packing grease... 'Cause by now,.. I'm used to it... ... and I think I've grown to like it... It smells like my workshed... Half my tools come from there... (the other half, I inherited)... (I was out there 'till 11.00pm tonight),...( Mmm!,.. sawdust, solvent, and lube!...)...:-?... I know it's un-American,.. but I can't afford to be American... ;D... ...If women knew how we felt about Hoppe's no.9, they''d wear a dab behind each ear,... and we'd be enslaved... :-*... Maybe, I shouldn't have said that?...:-?... |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Wolfman on 05/11/11 at 00:22:26 Naw its all the wireing insulation they have stripped off all the scrap wire they bought off us cheap plus ground up rubber tires. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/11/11 at 05:12:27 YOU mean All Harbor Freight stores smell like ours in Longview? One thing Ive noticed down thru the years, every grocery store back room smells the same. Cardboard.. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by bill67 on 05/11/11 at 05:34:56 Thats pesticide to get rid of the Chinese Beetles. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by WD on 05/11/11 at 05:40:53 It isn't just Harbor Freight. Northern Tool carries the same cheap chi-com crap. Wal-mart smells the same way. Emgo motorcycle parts shipments are the worst, gas mask recommended while opening the cartons. Having been in the intermodal container transport business... if you guys knew just how many drivers/material handlers got poisoned by containers of Asian imports... The bike shop I was working for was primarily an Emgo direct merchant. 3-4 40' containers of new product every spring and the older stuff stored until it sold. The outgassing from toxic packaging, lead infused potmetal and cheap latex/synthetic rubber... makes Harbor freight smell pretty good. Hoppe's number 9 huh? I think I'd prefer a couple drops of 100 year old single malt whiskey behind her ears. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Arnold on 05/11/11 at 06:57:01 Anyone remembers the chinese buns made of cardboard? |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by thumperclone on 05/11/11 at 07:15:07 roof rabbit intrails |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Boule’tard on 05/11/11 at 08:33:57 The smell doesn't just come from rubber, though that is a strong source. It was also in this neoprene floor pad (kind of a kid's play mat) that my mother in law picked up at wal-mart. Whooee boy, there's no way I'd let my kids crawl around on that, or keep it in the house, until it had gassed out in the sun a couple of weeks. The smell isn't necessarily on every Chinese product, so I don't think it is a pesticide. Also, it is often on products not prone to corrosion, like the floor pad. But it could be that everything out of China is sprayed with some kind of pesticide or preservative, and it is just that the plastics and rubbers absorb more of it for slow-release in the local Harbor Freight. I think the best theory is that it's part of an unknown recycled mixture. But that particular smell is so distinctive, it has to be something we can identify, dammit! Maybe they add a polymer rejuvenator or something to make whatever junk thrown in the pot mix together with other plastics/rubbers, into a useable material. A general solvent that facilitates the blending of 'close enough' materials. 5741564B53464B50240 wrote:
I know! Kind of like the smell of gasoline, it has positive associations and grows on you. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by verslagen1 on 05/11/11 at 08:52:24 Having mis-spent my youth in various eduacational facilities... I've been advised that if it smells, it's not good for you to smell it. So stick to sniffing vodka. ;D |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by babyhog on 05/11/11 at 09:01:16 As I get older, smells seem to bother me more. Anybody else like that? But I guess I'll have to pay attention better the next time I go to Harbor Freight. Now what's this Hoppes No. 9 stuff? I swear I don't know it, believe it or not. WD's whiskey would work for me, but I'm unusual... lol I do love gasoline smell. My father had a dry-cleaning business when I was little. I'm not sure how it all worked, but back in those days, gasoline and some other solvents were used in the industrial machines. Talk about a distinctive smell. But surprisingly I learned to love it. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Southpaw on 05/11/11 at 09:12:51 Having unloaded my fair share of freight trucks over the years, I'm of the opinion they spray their cardboard boxes with something to try to keep the mold and mildew down due to all the moisture in the trailers they have to pass through. (over the road trailers are the worst as many are not kept in good condition) There's something about the plastic strapping they use that leaves a greenish grey residue on your gloves also! |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Serowbot on 05/11/11 at 09:43:17 Hoppes No.9, Piglett... ;)... gunpowder solvent... ... "a dab behind the ear", is an old shooters joke, probably play on Chanel No.5 perfume... Personally,... a little dab of bacon-drippings behind the ear would have me entranced... ;)... http://image.sportsmansguide.com/dimage/51139_ts.JPG?cell=300,300&cvt=jpeg |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Southpaw on 05/11/11 at 09:53:35 Hoppes #9...some smells, like crayola crayons, or absorbine jr., are instantly identifiable! ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Stimpy - FSO on 05/11/11 at 10:48:49 ...it's the smell of evil chinese warehouse spirits that have possessed all of out cheapo junk ...out of boredom. :D |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Wolfman on 05/11/11 at 12:09:41 Now if you want to enthrall a woman all you got to do is rub some baby powder, pumpkin pie or chocalate behind your ears guys. Female aphrodiziac, scientificly proven...lol |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by Reelthing on 05/11/11 at 12:17:53 That stench is a minor example of what the air in china smells like I spent more weeks than I want to remember in the south china manufact areas a few years ago - so I think after the solvent odor and concrete dust settles out the stench you smell is what is left. |
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Title: Re: What is that Chinese plastic/rubber stench? Post by babyhog on 05/11/11 at 12:23:15 Has to do with guns, hubby probably has some that I've never seen. Gonna have to look for some of that. Bacon.... yummy, but not so sure it would be good behind the ears... lol :P Southpaw - you forgot PlayDoh! Wolfman, chocolate for me please, baby powder makes me sneeze... |
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