On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:42 PM, <eric at megageek.com> wrote:
> 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. B In a few minutes, the smell is gone.
I've cleaned oil out of lots of car carpets. You'll get nowhere
useful with kitty litter, coffee, vinegar, baking soda, or the like.
You need to remove all of the oil from the carpet. Carpets in modern
cars are made polypropylene and nylon or polyester, which are all
highly attractive to oil. Removing oil with solvents (if you can get
them out of the car, detergent and water will work.) is the only way
to get substantial amounts out.
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> 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
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> Waldo Emerson
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> David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com>
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> 02/21/2011 15:13
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> Aric <shop at shariconglobal.com>
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> Re: [Shop-talk] Cleaning up spilled mineral oil on carpet
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> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Aric <shop at 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.
>>
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> Can you remove the carpets? B If you can, they can be cleaned. B If you
> can't, pay someone who owns a suitable to do it. B You'll have less
> than satisfactory results with any bulk absorbant. B (though if you've
> got puddles of the stuff, get rid of them first.)
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