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Embroidery => General Embroidery => Topic started by: bimmridder on October 10, 2012, 10:25:33 AM
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I'll tell you what stinks. It's the embroidered head wear we receive from over seas. It seems to have a very distinct pungent odor. It's bad enough we can't deliver them to our customers. We are trying to find a way to fix this shipment, but I know it will happen again. I'm wondering if anyone else deals with this? My guess is that it's because of the time spent in containers on a ship on the ocean. It's not a mildew smell, but it's not pleasant. We are working with our supplier to resolve the issue. Anyone out there have this happen to them? It's on baseball caps and knit caps.
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good luck, my friend had that with some cd cases from an asi vendor. They were terrible. I mean horribly bad.
they couldn't fix them, but i think it was because they were vinyl. cotton should be fairly easy to get the stink out.
try febreeze and an overnight stay in the screen room where it's really dry.
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Fabreeze is on my shopping list today. Hadn't thought about the screen room. Thanks
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I have never encountered that with any of my imported shipments.....
So it was not the nice smell of spices from Vietnamese food?....lol....
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Nope, no dog meat either.
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Sandalwood. They burn it as incense. Smells like dog piss to me.
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Well we just got some samples that came by air, and guess what? No stench.
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probably a dead stowaway shared your container...he could have had the courtesy to die in a different one.
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You would be suprised how often that actually happens
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eww, gross.
also, you could wash them, i wouldn't dry them, but a quick rinse in some soapy water should work. Then set them out to dry.
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Dave, maybe its you. Take a shower lately? ???
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You might have to look into Ozone treatment.....Some dry cleaners and most fire/flood restoration companies do it....
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You might have to look into Ozone treatment.....Some dry cleaners and most fire/flood restoration companies do it....
I did shower this morning, but then I walked in to a shop in Fairfax ;D
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Not a bad idea... you could get an ozone generator (good to have anyway) and just put it all in a closed up small room and saturate it with O3.
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Not a bad idea... you could get an ozone generator (good to have anyway) and just put it all in a closed up small room and saturate it with O3.
Wow.....Just looked on Ebay and it seems they have come way down in price since my insurance adjusting days.....
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They are still retardedly high considering what you are getting.
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I wouldn't use febreeze if the odor is that bad. Febreeze seems to be a short term solution and later on the smell comes back. I tried it once on some heavy duty jackets that were delivered to me from the customer that smelled like a dead mouse had been in there and it worked for a couple days and then the odor just seemed to come back. It really was there issue in the end to get it cleaned professionally but I just wanted to get them so I could have it smell ok until production was done.
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You might have to look into Ozone treatment.....Some dry cleaners and most fire/flood restoration companies do it....
I did shower this morning, but then I walked in to a shop in Fairfax ;D
zing
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KC caps 6210 -- i have a guy that orders 250 at a time so they send me a sealed case of 144 and then some..(from sportsman)...the things STINK SO BAD! I would describe it as like a wet hemp bracelet from a hippie shop that youve worn for 3 years and it gets wet in the shower and it stinks til it dries LOL....or wet cardboard that a cat may or may not have whizzed on. They usually air out decently by the time ive sewn them and ship them to the customer so i havent had to febreeze but while im sewing the smell is pretty rough. Worse when they were made in vietnam than where they are made now (cant recall where they are made now but the quality had improved as well as the smell)