A trick I use when 'staging' a home for an open house if there are odors,
is to fill a bowl with white vinegar and place it in the room with the
smell. In a few minutes, the smell is gone.
This will work well in a small space like a car, but it might not be a
permeant fix (it may work permanently however.)
Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Sent by: shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net
02/21/2011 15:13
To
Aric <shop@shariconglobal.com>
cc
shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject
Re: [Shop-talk] Cleaning up spilled mineral oil on carpet
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Aric <shop@shariconglobal.com> wrote:
> Howdy All,
>
> Long story short, it seems I didn't secure things too well when sending
some
> homebrew high voltage capacitors down to my brother's place and one of
them
> fell over and leaked an undertermined amount of mineral oil onto the
> carpeting in the back of the car. B Any suggestions for cleanup and
getting
> rid of the smell? B It's probably a decade since we built them and I
have
no
> recollection of what we did for cleanup back then or how hard it was to
do.
> Right now the plan is kitty litter, but I'm not sure it'll do much for
the
> smell or get it all out of the carpet.
>
Can you remove the carpets? If you can, they can be cleaned. If you
can't, pay someone who owns a suitable to do it. You'll have less
than satisfactory results with any bulk absorbant. (though if you've
got puddles of the stuff, get rid of them first.)
--
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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