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Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors?
Chagatai writes "My company is one of America's largest beef and pork producers. Recently I took a trip to see a new computer room that had been built at one of our abbatoirs. While the new environment is nice and sanitary, the old computer room had air intakes that were adjacent to the rendering portion of the plant, and everything smells in an almost unholy way. Management is curious if there are any cleaning agents or means of deodorizing this equipment before moving it into the nice, new office. The only products I could find would clean the outside of the hardware, but the internals would still possess the lovely aroma of boiled dead pig parts. Of course, this is a race against time, as I am sure someone will inevitably squirt Pine-Sol into the system to try to make things better. Does anyone have any recommendations to remove the effluvium of post-mortem porcine matter from our machines?"
Try rubbing alcohol. It should get some of the smell off and then evaporate without leaving any residue. You can just dip the pieces numerous times if need be. I've used it to get blood off of several of my components without any problem. No I'm not a mass murderer or anything I just accidently cut myself while working on my computer and then don't feel it. By the time I notice my computer looks like it just had an abortion.
I don't know if this will work for you, but it's cheap and not risky.
Shut down and unplug the equipment. Crumple up sheets of newspaper, and pack them into the open space of the equipment. Seal it up and give it a day or two, then pull out the newspaper and discard it.
Why do I think this might work? I once bought a used refrigerator. It had been stored with the door closed and the power off, and its inside smelled very bad. I scrubbed the insides with cleaner and let it run for a few days, and it still smelled bad. Someone told me to try stuffing it full of newspaper, close it up, and leaving it for a day. I didn't really think it would work, but it did; the odor was gone. Just gone.
I think that the way it works is just that the fibers of the paper soak up the smell.
Now, if the meat-smelling equipment has actual deposits of meaty chemicals (pork fat or whatever) then I'll bet you will need to wash the equipment with alcohol or something to get rid of it. But if you just have odors soaked into various plastic things, this might work, just as it worked on my old refrigerator.
If you try it and it does work, do please let me know.
steveha
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I remember reading once about a car that someone had been murdered in and his corpse left to rot for some time before it was discovered. The myth is that the car never could be cured of the aweful stench on the interior of the car that came out on warm days, even after completely stripping the car down to the bare metal.
Apparently the myth was tested by some guys a few years ago using a rotting pig carcas, and they determined that it was true. They had all kinds of people try cleaning the car. They even stripped out the seat and the cloth parts. It still stank.
So I don't think that you'll ever be successful.
I will never have these problems.