9inchheel Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 new boots bad smell maybe pig leather how to get rid of bad smell in new boots
Mike Hinch Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 If it is the leather that is issueing the smell then I might tend to think of some sort of eighteen carbon parifin carried in on a methanol solvent with just a touch of glycol. But as I see it without knowing the kind of smell or the chemical carrying the olfactry signature I can not be specific. Sitll there are about three ways to go one seal in the smell. Two add some chemical with a strong counter smell. Three add some chemical that will covailently or ionicly bond and thereby change the nature of the molicule. Once a while back I wanted to alter the color of a pair of black boots and got no useable suggestions anywhere so by accedent I found that the pigment was some form of mecury bichromate and that zincsulphate would convert the chromium to zinc-chromate which is yellow and the mecury to mecurysulphate which is orange. Please any chemical engineers out there go easy on me as I am not a chemist but I did use zincsulphate to turn the black boots from black to blochy yellowishorange. Anyway the result was what I wanted and smell can be adjusted in similar fashion.
9inchheel Posted October 28, 2012 Author Posted October 28, 2012 thank you mike. ive tried a couple of those suggestions but feel im going to wreck the boots completly.
Shafted Posted October 29, 2012 Posted October 29, 2012 Spray them down with Fabreeze. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
Mike Hinch Posted October 29, 2012 Posted October 29, 2012 Fabreeze is good also Lysol has been known to be highly effective for certain smells and for Putrisine and Kadaverine there is a product with the highly scientific name Anitichypoo.
shoerepairer Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Air them. If they are new, then they may have only been made a short time before you brought them. Leave them in a well ventilated place or outside it weather permits & I'd bet a pound to a penny the smell will dissipate after a few days. Before the great suggestions (fabreeze) I'd certainly try this first. Repair Reuse Recycle. Cobbler it.
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