[Rhodes22-list] Question - Fish Smell

[Brad Haslett]

Thena,

Thanks. On that note of encouragement, I'm going to bed.  You can bet I'll
try everything you suggested.  On a positive note, this might make a good
party car - no need for a designated driver.

Would have given you a heads-up call on the visit to the Gulf but we had a
full schedule.  I visited at length with the gal who manages our place in
Long Beach while the owner is in Iraq.  She works for the city and is in the
know.  LB may not be quite as sleepy when this is all over but it sounds
like the master plan is nice.

Brad


On 9/13/06, thenacarville at bellsouth.net <thenacarville at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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.....
>
>
> >
> > 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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