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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 --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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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