The smells of the trade

[ozone drone]

Every time I logon here I can practically smell:

Burnt condenser fan motor windings which is a little different than the cooked transformer smell.
That sour refrigeration oil smell from a system that had lots of air in it.
WD-40, sweet smell of 134a, good ol' phosgene. djever notice the persperation smell of some alcoholics is close to the smell of acetylene? The burnt dust smell from resistance heat the first time it comes on in the fall. A warm running copeland semihermetic has its own unique smell.
The burned out heat exchanger smell at a hair salon that died from eating too much hairspray. The cooked mouse on a heat exchanger gag! ....more?

[Dof3]

ozone, you need a vacation. Just a day or to in the country!!!

[bb]

Originally posted by ozone drone
Every time I logon here I can practically smell:

Burnt condenser fan motor windings which is a little different than the cooked transformer smell.
That sour refrigeration oil smell from a system that had lots of air in it.
WD-40, sweet smell of 134a, good ol' phosgene. djever notice the persperation smell of some alcoholics is close to the smell of acetylene? The burnt dust smell from resistance heat the first time it comes on in the fall. A warm running copeland semihermetic has its own unique smell.
The burned out heat exchanger smell at a hair salon that died from eating too much hairspray. The cooked mouse on a heat exchanger gag! ....more?

Hey I'm surprised that you forgot this one......































Ozone from the stuck on electronic air cleaner ! :)

[midhvac]

Ummmm... you forgot about the smell of singed hair from delayed ignitions.

[midhvac]

"Ma'am, where is your trash? I'm very sorry, but if you think that stinking sh*t is going in my van where I have to breathe, you're sadly mistaken. It came from YOUR house, It's YOUR sh*t, and it goes in YOUR trash. Yes ma'am, the trash can in your garage will do just fine, thanks."

[condenseddave]

You are really mentally f*cked.:eek:

I mean, seriously.:p

Seek help, just don't go to that "Ask Diceman" thingy, he's kinda pissed about getting stiffed on his royalties.:D

[otto]

Originally posted by ozone drone
djever notice the persperation smell of some alcoholics is close to the smell of acetylene?
????????? You're getting too close dude!

Anyhow, whenever I get around fuel oil I always remember back to the aft fireroom on the USS Jason.

[appltech1]

Originally posted by ozone drone
Every time I logon here I can practically smell:

Burnt condenser fan motor windings which is a little different than the cooked transformer smell.
That sour refrigeration oil smell from a system that had lots of air in it.
WD-40, sweet smell of 134a, good ol' phosgene. djever notice the persperation smell of some alcoholics is close to the smell of acetylene? The burnt dust smell from resistance heat the first time it comes on in the fall. A warm running copeland semihermetic has its own unique smell.
The burned out heat exchanger smell at a hair salon that died from eating too much hairspray. The cooked mouse on a heat exchanger gag! ....more?

Wow, this is too cool. I here voices and you smell all the crap. :D

[condenseddave]

Originally posted by otto

Originally posted by ozone drone
djever notice the persperation smell of some alcoholics is close to the smell of acetylene?
????????? You're getting too close dude!


LMFAO.:D

back AWAY from Otto.:p

[The Penguin]

lets see the smell of old food in the cooler the smell of a restraunt in the morning before it opens the smell of a night club at 9am the smell of a contactor coil you just fried cause you forgot to check the coil voltage. the smell of old food on your hands after servicing a cooler while eating your lunch, the smell of a rendering plant from down the road then inside it then your self after being inside for 2 minutes. the smell of a engair mua burning badly.

[ozone drone]

Originally posted by condenseddave
You are really mentally f*cked.:eek:

I mean, seriously.:p

Seek help, just don't go to that "Ask Diceman" thingy, he's kinda pissed about getting stiffed on his royalties.:D

Tell me somethin I don't already know Dave :)

If refrigerant REALLY eats the ozone layer.....I'm down to about 4 brain cells and 2 of them ain't payin attention.

and the perspiration/acetylene? ...you don't have to get close.....they reek. It's easy to work up a sweat in this trade ... 110 degrees on a roof ropin up 300 pounds of tools and 200 pounds of refrigerant makes sweatin to the oldies look like childsplay.

[Edited by ozone drone on 09-23-2004 at 06:37 AM]

[woowoo]

Originally posted by ozone drone
[B]Every time I logon here I can practically smell:


Maybe you need to wash your office chair....

[condenseddave]

Originally posted by ozone drone


If refrigerant REALLY eats the ozone layer.....I'm down to about 4 brain cells and 2 of them ain't payin attention.



I've only got 7 left, total, and they haven't spoken to one another since that big blowout back in '89.:D

[Ammonianite]

The smell of your boss passing gas after a night out on the town and a morning of eating breakfast burritos.

[sirtab]

The smell of the roof over a big food court.

[Diceman]

Yeah, Phosgene is a good one, got enough of that one in my life. And fuel oil, reglular oil, freeeezone, burnt transformers, burnt motors, smoked compressors, fumes from poor combustion, leaking natural gas, pvc glue, very very rarely ammonia, some of them degreasers with orange scent,
peoples pets, sewers and more.........why I put myself through all this,

The smell of money:D

[Green Mountain]

Some wierd people like the smell of gasoline when they are fill up the truck. I'm one of them. Also I used to like the smell of tar when they were mopping a roof on a construction job. They don't do that any more all commercial roofs seem to be vinyl nowadays.

[Diceman]

Kids like the smell of gasoline, I did but......I had a summer job in the early 70's cutting weeds and grass under billboards around the city, boy did that job suck, anyway, worked out of company pick ups, I had to put my hair under a hat cause the boss didn't like long hair........the fag.....so, my lunch bag was in the back of truck one day and it got soaked a little with gas from a leaking gas can, I was starving so I ate it anyway...very bad night burping up gas smells and felt awful.....since then I ain't big on the smell of it.

[R12rules]

Originally posted by Diceman
Kids like the smell of gasoline, I did but........... my lunch bag was in the back of truck one day and it got soaked a little with gas from a leaking gas can, I was starving so I ate it anyway...very bad night burping up gas smells and felt awful.....since then I ain't big on the smell of it.


I had a simular experience on a missions trip into Baja Mexico.
I was photographing a work crew from our church who were servicing a bus. A close friend approached me and faked me out pretending to hand me a glass of iced tea.
I had been pre-occupied with viewing the whole area thru my camera lense. I didnt realize that glass he was handing me was actually being used to prime the carbuerator of that bus.
AND IT DIDNT CONTAIN ANY THING RESEMBLING "ICED TEA"!!!

While he's shouting; "Bob don't!!!" .... I'm spewing out gasoline and trying to decide what NOT to drop... my camera, the glass of volatile liquid, ..... or simply a barrage of verbal obscenities.


He guides me into the nearby medical clinic and the first thing we hear is someone exclaiming; "hey, I smell gas!"
Well no duh!!!

We're in this exam room washing out my throat and argueing; "I can't BELIEVE you did that!" While he is saying; "I can't BELIEVE you did that!"


It's funny now, but at the time .... not so funny.

[Green Mountain]

Originally posted by Diceman
...very bad night burping up gas smells and felt awful.....since then I ain't big on the smell of it.

You probably didn't get to sleep until you ran out of gas.

[Timber]

Originally posted by Diceman
Kids like the smell of gasoline, I did but......I had a summer job in the early 70's cutting weeds and grass under billboards around the city, boy did that job suck, anyway, worked out of company pick ups, I had to put my hair under a hat cause the boss didn't like long hair........the fag.....so, my lunch bag was in the back of truck one day and it got soaked a little with gas from a leaking gas can, I was starving so I ate it anyway...very bad night burping up gas smells and felt awful.....since then I ain't big on the smell of it.

That explains it all Dice

[Diceman]

I'll deal with you later, right now it's time for my molotive cocktail, I usually just have one before dinner.

[Edmund Forsthe]

how abouth the smell of catpiss in a damp basement?

[ozone drone]

Originally posted by Edmund Forsthe
how abouth the smell of catpiss in a damp basement?

Call me weird Ed, but that one I don't get too nostalgic for.

[Edmund Forsthe]

not being nostalgic its one of those smell you wish never to run into again, makes me want to turn around when i smell it in a basement.

[bja105]

I worked with an alcoholic pot smoker a few years ago. We were working in bar/restaurant, after it closed, so we'd show up at 2:30 a.m. The poor guy wrecked his car high, lost his lisence and had no more car, So for a while I had to pick him up. When he got to sweating out the booze, combined with the smell of pot an marlboro's, he smelled just like a compressor burnout. It left my truck stinking, too.

I told him this, and he said "are you telling me I smell like a burnout?" I told him he looked like one, too. We had alot of fun on that job.

[midhvac]

I'm glad this isn't a gynecology forum :rolleyes:

[wolfdog]

Virginia 10

[Green Mountain]

While we are on the subject. What is the worse smell you ever smelled? The only thing that ever almost made me puke is when I went to empty a can of fishing worms that was left in the hot trunk of my car for four days.

[hi-tork]

I too love the smell of gasoline while filling at the pump; it has to be the right mixture of gas and air to smell good; if its splashed on your hands, to rich... :D

I too hate cat urine...

[The Penguin]

I stopped liking gas after a syphioning incident when I was broke and very young working teenager

cats piss really stinks when its on your wetsuit or your side of the bed
the worst smell I have encountered was when I was walking on a farmers land folowing a creek with my buddies we were night fishing and we came across a dead sheep with its stomach swollen up like a ballon we dared each other to pop it and I did whith a 5ft stick I puked right there shoulda had a 20 ft stick man!