in search of the ultimate mattress
[A little background to start with: the futon I made over a year ago is starting to pack down, and it's really comfortable if you put mattress springs under it. The trick is finding some I tolerate.]
Today I learned that if you buy a mattress on Craigslist for $20, even when you peel off all the Febrezed layers of polyester and foam and God knows what, the springs can smell just like Febreze. A while ago I learned that it's very difficult to get oils off of springs, so we'll see how it goes with Febreze chemicals.
Say, does anyone know of something I could spray on my stuff to get the smells out?
Today I learned that if you buy a mattress on Craigslist for $20, even when you peel off all the Febrezed layers of polyester and foam and God knows what, the springs can smell just like Febreze. A while ago I learned that it's very difficult to get oils off of springs, so we'll see how it goes with Febreze chemicals.
Say, does anyone know of something I could spray on my stuff to get the smells out?
posted by missmolly at 11:43 PM
3 Comments:
Methanol is a good solvent. Can you tolerate methanol (or isopropanol, etc.)?
Oh, that would work great, but given that I remember how it smells, I bet I couldn't go near it.
What I wanted at the car wash (next post) was a giant ultrasonic bath. I can't remember what liquid we used in there, though - was it methanol?
Now that you mention alcohols, some of my friends swear by vodka as a cleaner. Maybe it's time to get me some vodka! ;)
We cleaned stuff with toluene, then acetone, then methanol, then blowing the metho dry with nitrogen. And we had to use something nastier to remove the gold/chrome. I can't remember what we had in the ultrasonic cleaner -- it might even have been water.
You could use vodka, or you could go straight for the everclear (which is something like 95% alcohol instead of vocka's 40%) ;)
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