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The worst smell...
2010-03-23, 11:53 AM #1
...you've ever had the displeasure of inhaling... POST IT!

Mine:

Here at work, we run large web press machines. The process is complicated but in short the images are pasted onto a very hot material that is adhered to a steel drum (which contains a heating element). The glue used to coat the material is odorless when cool. But once heated... well. Imagine if you left tuna fish inside of a plastic container with its own juices. For 6 months, in the sun. Then you decide "Hey I bet that smells good".... No
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
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2010-03-23, 12:02 PM #2
One of my friends farts.

Smelled like death.
2010-03-23, 12:24 PM #3
since im preggo right now everything smells either 1000x better or 1000x worse. its usually worse. i have to wear a construction mask just to go into the bathroom.
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2010-03-23, 12:26 PM #4
Well one time there was this girl and things started getting se
2010-03-23, 12:38 PM #5
ohhhhh
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2010-03-23, 12:48 PM #6
Probably something fecal or vomit-related.
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2010-03-23, 12:57 PM #7
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
...you've ever had the displeasure of inhaling... POST IT!

Mine:

Here at work, we run large web press machines. The process is complicated but in short the images are pasted onto a very hot material that is adhered to a steel drum (which contains a heating element). The glue used to coat the material is odorless when cool. But once heated... well. Imagine if you left tuna fish inside of a plastic container with its own juices. For 6 months, in the sun. Then you decide "Hey I bet that smells good".... No


I'm right with you on that one. We have similar here. You want to rip your own nose out when smelling that ungodly odour.
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2010-03-23, 1:07 PM #8
Autopsy, after they took all the guts out. There were 3 bodies IIRC. The scent stayed in my clothes and hair until I've had a shower, and even then, I still thought that I could feel it. Intense stuff.
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2010-03-23, 1:14 PM #9
Originally posted by Jep:
I'm right with you on that one. We have similar here. You want to rip your own nose out when smelling that ungodly odour.


You're not using an Indigo by chance are you? :)
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2010-03-23, 1:45 PM #10
http://www.liquidass.com/

I bought a few bottles for April Fool's Day a few years ago. Good god, that stuff is terrible.
2010-03-23, 1:49 PM #11
Iraq.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2010-03-23, 2:03 PM #12
Originally posted by andreawesome:
since im preggo right now ....


I was prepared for this to take a totally different direction. lol
2010-03-23, 2:34 PM #13
A patient **** the bed once. He was chronically constipated from a mixture of anti-psychotic medication and weeks of hospital food. It literally smelled like death. I couldn't even go near his room. Just thinking about the smell makes me gag, I can smell it my mind's nose.

Or a preserved lamprey we dissected in bio. In both cases I was sleep deprived, which made it all the worse.
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2010-03-23, 6:18 PM #14
Originally posted by Spook:
Iraq.


so true.
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2010-03-23, 6:22 PM #15
when i was doing community service, i had to clean up dead fish
2010-03-23, 6:26 PM #16
I was doing my student teaching at a Middle School, and one of my students had broken her foot at some point during the past week. They were working on a project in the library, and at some point she raised her hand and I came over to help. I bent down a little bit to get closer to eye level, and the equivalent of what I can only describe as having been a month old trout slapped me right across the face. Turns out, she had not showered at all for a week and a half with her foot. So really, you had a a middle school girl who had not showered in a week, and was a little overweight so god knows she probably was sweating like mad. It was by far the worst smell I've ever come across
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2010-03-23, 6:41 PM #17
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Well one time there was this girl and things started getting se


Good lord, that is a terrible smell. Some chicks... I don't get it.
2010-03-23, 6:43 PM #18
This one time I was mopping up with some dirty old nasty mop water.

It wasn't near the worst spell ever, but it did make the whole room smell like .. yea..

Mop bucket water though, it was weird.
It's like "Where is that COMING FROM!?! It's OVERHWELMING!!! WE CAN'T ESCAPE IT !? Oh wait it's just us around.... smell the bucket .... AWWW Man it's the bucket you just mopped the whole floor with that!!!!"
2010-03-23, 8:19 PM #19
A dead dog carcass I found fermenting in the hot and humid Louisiana summer definitely tops the list for me.
2010-03-23, 9:31 PM #20
When I was in college I lived in a small apartment on the 3rd (top) floor of a complex. For about three days I was smelling the most horrendous odor that a friend of mine eloquently described as "vomit farts". I searched high and low for the source. I sprayed fabric cleaner, shampooed the carpets, removed any and all trash I could find, emptied my fridge etc all to no avail.

I found out on the fourth day while heading downstairs to get out of the apartment that the lady below me had passed away and had no family who would wonder if she was missing. It was mid summer in northern Indiana and we had westward facing windows. The smell I had found was her rotting corpse coming through my baseboard heat ducts. I threw up in the parking lot.

That smell haunts my dreams.
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2010-03-23, 9:45 PM #21
Originally posted by Yecti:
ewww


You win. Thread over.
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2010-03-23, 9:50 PM #22
Ooooo-ooooooooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell?
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2010-03-23, 10:03 PM #23
Originally posted by Yecti:
When I was in college I lived in a small apartment on the 3rd (top) floor of a complex. For about three days I was smelling the most horrendous odor that a friend of mine eloquently described as "vomit farts". I searched high and low for the source. I sprayed fabric cleaner, shampooed the carpets, removed any and all trash I could find, emptied my fridge etc all to no avail.

I found out on the fourth day while heading downstairs to get out of the apartment that the lady below me had passed away and had no family who would wonder if she was missing. It was mid summer in northern Indiana and we had westward facing windows. The smell I had found was her rotting corpse coming through my baseboard heat ducts. I threw up in the parking lot.

That smell haunts my dreams.


Dude dead people smell almost as bad as dead burning people.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2010-03-23, 10:04 PM #24
Originally posted by Antony:
Ooooo-ooooooooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell?


The smell of death surrounds you
2010-03-24, 2:08 AM #25
Originally posted by Yecti:
Grossness.


Imagining that smell makes me a die a little inside..
2010-03-24, 5:50 AM #26
Yeah, Yecti wins...
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2010-03-24, 5:54 AM #27
Originally posted by ELITE WARRIOR:
A dead dog carcass I found fermenting in the hot and humid Louisiana summer definitely tops the list for me.

This, except it was a fox.

Also it was a hot and humid Kent summer.
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2010-03-24, 5:58 AM #28
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
You're not using an Indigo by chance are you? :)


Negative, we're using digital printers like the HP9000, HP5000 and VUTEK PressVu. Its when its time to laminate certain types of media to coroplast, fomecore, diebond, etc, the glue'll heat up and smells like an atom bomb composed of rotten eggs and rotting carcasses went off.
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2010-03-24, 6:40 AM #29
Ahhh, so you're printing large format stuff. Is that thing slow? (The VUTEK)
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
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2010-03-24, 6:53 AM #30
Yep, large format. The vutek will print a 4' x 8' coroplast in about 25-30 minutes. So its not exceptionally fast. Its also a 5 year old model, the first generation of UV Ink flatbeds. Honestly, I was never really impressed with that oversized hunk of metal. Its probably sitting around 180 ft an hour.

New-Gen vuteks and competitive flat-bed printers (I'm not talking about the ones costing millions) are faster and the UV Inks are finally up to par. With our PressVu 600, they just weren't as flexible and durable as they claimed.
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2010-03-24, 11:04 AM #31
It's surprising that they are using UV inks at all, I like the plastic based ink that the Indigos use. It's not technically ink, but I suppose you can't use "ElectroInk" as they have dubbed it, without the entire oil process.

I wish we did something large format here, just to have it, but we only print our own product labeling. Are you guys mass producing on something that slow?
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2010-03-24, 11:27 AM #32
Burning hair and nursing homes are the worst smells I've experienced. But that is nothing compared to Yecti's story.
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2010-03-24, 11:34 AM #33
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
It's surprising that they are using UV inks at all, I like the plastic based ink that the Indigos use. It's not technically ink, but I suppose you can't use "ElectroInk" as they have dubbed it, without the entire oil process.

I wish we did something large format here, just to have it, but we only print our own product labeling. Are you guys mass producing on something that slow?


Most older digital printers use solvent-based ink. One of the upsides of UV Ink, especially current-gen UV inks, is that it dries instantly. Sure don't go scratch at it, but even if you touch it with your fingers you wont damage the image. It also smells less than your typical solvent ink (which gives quite the buzz).

There's a new technology coming out with latex-based ink. We're currently considering some machines, but the 30k-50k $ models are just too slow to fit our needs. 100 square feet per hour is just terrible when we have to print around 2000 square feet a day. There are more expensive ones but we don't want to spend 200k on a printer anymore. At least not yet.
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2010-03-24, 11:53 AM #34
St George's Cross underground station is the first one that jumps to mind, but Yecti wins.
nope.
2010-03-24, 11:59 AM #35
Originally posted by Jep:
Most older digital printers use solvent-based ink. One of the upsides of UV Ink, especially current-gen UV inks, is that it dries instantly. Sure don't go scratch at it, but even if you touch it with your fingers you wont damage the image. It also smells less than your typical solvent ink (which gives quite the buzz).

There's a new technology coming out with latex-based ink. We're currently considering some machines, but the 30k-50k $ models are just too slow to fit our needs. 100 square feet per hour is just terrible when we have to print around 2000 square feet a day. There are more expensive ones but we don't want to spend 200k on a printer anymore. At least not yet.


Same goes with our 'inks', they scratch (have to be varnished, which is UV) but they are dry before it's applied to the paper. It's actually a really impressive process compared to the printing processes I had thought were used lol.

We run two HP Indigo WS2000 machines, and multiple cutting/finishing machines. Search 'Pool Shock' on amazon, and you're probably looking at something I made :)
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
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2010-03-24, 12:24 PM #36
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
Same goes with our 'inks', they scratch (have to be varnished, which is UV) but they are dry before it's applied to the paper. It's actually a really impressive process compared to the printing processes I had thought were used lol.

We run two HP Indigo WS2000 machines, and multiple cutting/finishing machines. Search 'Pool Shock' on amazon, and you're probably looking at something I made :)


Neat!

What kind of cutting/ finishing machines are you guys using?
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2010-03-24, 12:44 PM #37
We have two ABG International machines. Which I would highly recommend if you're doing flexo/web configurations. We also have a Rotoflex Vericut, which we got prior to the ABG machines. I would NOT recommend the Rotoflex. Nor anything from that company.

edit: ABG machines: One Omega Digicon, one Digicoat.
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
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2010-03-24, 12:51 PM #38
PM, guys.

More smell talk.
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2010-03-24, 12:54 PM #39
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
PM, guys.

More smell talk.
kthanksbai


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