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Sling wrote:I think you missed the smell of your heatpump turning on for the first time in the fall.
pete_roth wrote:I <3:
smell of gasoline
smell of chemicals used ina dark room
smell of printer ink from a type setter or the ink from a press room
smell of magic markers
smell of rubber cement
smell of new cd's tightly packed in bulk orders (ritek)
smell of new electronics
smell of old electronics burning
smell of a freshly struck match
and I still have plenty of brain cells!
JediNinjaWizards wrote:Hey, does anyone else suffer from this problem? Whenever I open a new motherboard, it has an unmistakable smell, I call it "New Motherboard Smell." I'll sit there and sniff the new board, because it smells good! Has anyone else ever done this? Or am I insane, and should stop sniffing electronics for fun? Also, like new car smell, it goes away over time.
bhtooefr wrote:Could it be the smell of fresh solder?
That's certainly not a bad smell...
I wouldn't know, I've never smelled a new mobo
Bob Maenhout wrote:All things what smell nice are toxics . I smell my farts when Im behind the PC :lol:. But I smell glue (not addicted or so, but just when we are busy with glue, always take a sniff), car gasses in garages, my PSU (smells nice), burned PCB's (smells nice too)