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What are your favourite electronics smells?
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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: strawberry on December 06, 2021, 02:40:45 am ---gasoline

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Not smelling it too much, I hope.
Neper:

--- Quote from: 25 CPS on December 02, 2021, 05:13:06 pm ---Freshly unsealed magnetic tape would be another.
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There was a time, when I could have told the various brands apart just by their smell. Scotch was probably the easiest because very distinct. Next came Ampex Grand Master.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Neper on December 06, 2021, 11:12:59 am ---
--- Quote from: 25 CPS on December 02, 2021, 05:13:06 pm ---Freshly unsealed magnetic tape would be another.
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There was a time, when I could have told the various brands apart just by their smell. Scotch was probably the easiest because very distinct. Next came Ampex Grand Master.

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I think it was Scotch tape that was musician Frank Zappa's engineer discovered after years of archival that the brand was the best in terms of preservation of the recorded material.

I wonder what substances made that brand so special. Nobody knew at the time. It was pot luck what you bought.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 06, 2021, 12:25:31 pm ---I wonder what substances made that brand so special. Nobody knew at the time. It was pot luck what you bought.

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I'd guess it comes mostly down to the adhesive, and also the grain and consistency of the coating. The smell is almost certainly mostly the adhesive/binders.
eti:
Well I've found out one of my LEAST favourite electronics smells - the smell of MG Chemicals 835 RA type flux! Yuck!
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