betzilla 56 #1 November 10, 2014 Does anybody have a way to get rid of that awful, puke-like smell that old nylon gets? It makes me retch, and I deal with a lot of pilot rigs that have this stink (I'm guessing butt-sweat is one of the ingredients. sigh). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 558 #2 November 10, 2014 betzillaDoes anybody have a way to get rid of that awful, puke-like smell that old nylon gets? It makes me retch, and I deal with a lot of pilot rigs that have this stink (I'm guessing butt-sweat is one of the ingredients. sigh). ............................................................................. Butt-sweat is not the worst thing I have found in PEPs! I have washed old engine oil, puke and urine out of PEPs. I even re-placed four harnesses (a pair of Softies and two Telesis student rigs) from Brazil. The iron content of Amazonian soil corroded all the cadmium off the hardware and the underlying steel was turning a variety of shades of ugly red rust. Fortunately the rigs arrived before the rust frayed harness webbing. That was around the time stainless steel hardware came into fashion. Now I advise jumpers to buy stainless steel hardware so that I no longer have to worry about red rust abrading webbing. Sure stainless steel produces a bit of grey or black oxide when it corrodes, but that grey powder is too fine to fray webbing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #3 November 11, 2014 Wash it. There are a couple threads on here on how and what to use for detergent.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanair 0 #4 November 12, 2014 To an old dog that is the heavenly smell of memories Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
