

| Subject: | Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone |
| From: | John Rodgers |
| Date: | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:38:47 -0500 |
Gogle for "Ozone Generators" and also for "Ozone Generator Plans". You will get literally hundreds of hits on the topic. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Anthony Egeln wrote: > Where might one buy a store bought ozone generator? > > Anthony > '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) > > > John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: The ozone generator is the way to go - store bought variety if possible, > due to the safety guards build in. Homemade generators work too. It is > amazing what they can do. > > I once had to de-fume a carpeted house where an old lady lived. How she > lived there I don't know. She smoked heavily and was a cat person - any > number of cats over a number of years. The combination of the heavy > smoke fumes and nicotine particulate in the house, combined with cat > pee and cat poop accumulated in the carpet over the years - it was > baaaaaad! Your body automatically stopped your breathing when the door > opened as a self preservation measure. I set a large ozone generator in > the place and ran it for two weeks straight. At the end of the two > weeks, you would never know anyone ever smoked in there or that any cat > had ever trod the carpet. After the defuming, the place was cleaned then > new carpet installed. The old carpet was burned for safety reasons. The > company that replaced the carpet didn't want whatever was in that carpet > exposed to anyone, so it was more or less cremated in a closed incinerator. > > I don't know what long term - 5 days or more - exposure of ozone to the > plastics and rubber in a van might do, but for a couple of days I don't > imagine it would do much. And to really get rid of the smell, the ozone > would get into every nook and cranny since it is a gas. > > Good luck. > > John Rodgers > 88 GL Driver > > Tabe Johnson wrote: > >> Auto detailers will use an air cleaner >> that produces Ozone. The free oxygen >> oxidizes (go figure) the nasty smelly >> hydrocarbons in the air. >> >> Don't breathe ozone, though. Bad for >> the lungs. >> >> I have used a "Living Air" air cleaner >> with good results in cars before. >> >> >> tabe johnson/87 westy >> >> >> >> > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > >
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