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From: JD on 2 Jan 2010 15:07
VanguardLH wrote:
> JD wrote:
>
>> Have you recently bought any plastic-bodied
>> electronics and found an
>> unpleasant chemical stench?
>>
>> I bought an Aluratek internet radio and, after 10
>> days, it is still sitting
>> in my garage.
>>
>> The stink appears to be coming from the plastic
>> casing but it's hard to
>> tell because the case has ventilation slots.
>>
>> I'm pondering whether to return it.
>>
>> Any experience of stinks like this?
>
> Might it be yet another tainted Chinese product?
>
> Toys with leaded paint. Dried apples with a cancer-causing agent. Frozen
> catfish with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines with putrefying
> bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides. Faulty manufacture of
> car tires. Cough syrup tainted with glcol that killed 100 in Panama. Wheat
> glutin tainted with malamime (used to make plastics and fertilizer) found in
> pet food that caused kidney ailments in dogs and cats. Malamine showing up
> in Chinese dairy products. Toothpaste found containing glycol. Noxious
> vapors and sulfide gases emitted from Chinese-made sheetrock in Florida
> homes that are even corrosive to A/C coils. Getting a small sample of the
> banned items returned than they try to send it back through again.
>
> Apparently China's solution to disposing of their hazardous waste is to put
> it into their exported products. Check if the product says "Made in China".
> If so, read that as "We Poison You". Then decide if you're going to keep it
> or return it as a chemical hazard.

That is also my opinion. I would not eat anything
that originated in China. I'm
trying the find what the chemical in that outgas
is likely to be. Anyone have a
spectrometer handy? ;-)

A few months ago I saw cans of beans in Trader
Joes with the label "Made in
China" or something very similar. The only thing I
would feed that to is a hole
in the ground.
From: JD on 4 Jan 2010 17:17
Paul wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote:
>> JD wrote:
>>
>>> Have you recently bought any plastic-bodied electronics and found an
>>> unpleasant chemical stench?
>>>
>>> I bought an Aluratek internet radio and, after 10 days, it is still
>>> sitting
>>> in my garage.
>>>
>>> The stink appears to be coming from the plastic casing but it's hard to
>>> tell because the case has ventilation slots.
>>>
>>> I'm pondering whether to return it.
>>>
>>> Any experience of stinks like this?
>>
>> Might it be yet another tainted Chinese product?
>>
>> Toys with leaded paint. Dried apples with a cancer-causing agent.
>> Frozen
>> catfish with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines with putrefying
>> bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides. Faulty
>> manufacture of
>> car tires. Cough syrup tainted with glcol that killed 100 in Panama.
>> Wheat
>> glutin tainted with malamime (used to make plastics and fertilizer)
>> found in
>> pet food that caused kidney ailments in dogs and cats. Malamine
>> showing up
>> in Chinese dairy products. Toothpaste found containing glycol. Noxious
>> vapors and sulfide gases emitted from Chinese-made sheetrock in Florida
>> homes that are even corrosive to A/C coils. Getting a small sample of
>> the
>> banned items returned than they try to send it back through again.
>>
>> Apparently China's solution to disposing of their hazardous waste is
>> to put
>> it into their exported products. Check if the product says "Made in
>> China".
>> If so, read that as "We Poison You". Then decide if you're going to
>> keep it
>> or return it as a chemical hazard.
>
> I've had a few computer fans that smelled funny, and perhaps it is the
> same smell. It is hard to tell whether the plastic has had something
> added to it, or it is simply poorly made plastic. The smell was bad
> enough, that the fans could not be installed in a system, and had to be
> left inside the original boxes.
>
> I've had one power supply, that had a strong solvent type smell when the
> box was opened. But fortunately for that one, the smell dissipated in a
> few hours.
>
> The smelly plastic problem, on the other hand, only seems to get worse
> with time. So perhaps it is just poorly made plastic.
>
> I used to think it was a fire retardant that was applied, but it
> doesn't seem to be cleanable.
>
> Paul

Thanks Paul and have a great New Year :-)
From: philo on 4 Jan 2010 18:47
JD wrote:
> Hi Experts,
>
> Have you recently bought any plastic-bodied electronics and found an
> unpleasant chemical stench?
>
> I bought an Aluratek internet radio and, after 10 days, it is still sitting
> in my garage.
>
> The stink appears to be coming from the plastic casing but it's hard to
> tell because the case has ventilation slots.
>
> I'm pondering whether to return it.
>
> Any experience of stinks like this?
>
> TIA



Just figured out why the radio stinks

probably tuned in to Howard Stern!!!!
From: Ian D on 4 Jan 2010 20:20

"JD" <JD(a)NoDen.con> wrote in message news:7q7rdcFud4U1(a)mid.individual.net...
> Hi Experts,
>
> Have you recently bought any plastic-bodied electronics and found an
> unpleasant chemical stench?
>
> I bought an Aluratek internet radio and, after 10 days, it is still
> sitting
> in my garage.
>
> The stink appears to be coming from the plastic casing but it's hard to
> tell because the case has ventilation slots.
>
> I'm pondering whether to return it.
>
> Any experience of stinks like this?
>
> TIA

If you want something stinky, try Xcelite screwdrivers and
nutdrivers, etc. I have a set of small Xcelite nutdrivers in
a small plastic case, and they still smell after over 40 years.
Xcelite have been top quality tools. It's the type of plastic
used in the handles. Craftsman and some other brands
have also had similar smells, but not as powerful. These
are all, made in USA, tools.


From: kony on 4 Jan 2010 20:25
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:07:32 -0800, JD <JD(a)NoDen.con> wrote:


>That is also my opinion. I would not eat anything
>that originated in China. I'm
>trying the find what the chemical in that outgas
>is likely to be. Anyone have a
>spectrometer handy? ;-)
>
>A few months ago I saw cans of beans in Trader
>Joes with the label "Made in
>China" or something very similar. The only thing I
>would feed that to is a hole
>in the ground.


Yeah but, there's bound to be people in China shaking their
heads at the US shipping our garbage to them. Their cheap
and nasty manufacturing processes seem to pay off in that
their economy is looking a lot stronger in the future while
the US is going to have to relearn the idea of buying
domestic goods.
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