Help: Removing Odor From Game Used Item

[GoCubsGo32]

I recently purchased a Florida Marlins game used teal batting helmet (1993-95). I love it! -- until I removed it from the box and it reeks of smoke

Since it's game used, I'm debating how to go about removing the smoke odor...trying hard not to clean it directly. Thought about putting some fabric softer sheets with the helmet in a shipping box, tape it up...and wait awhile to open it.....???

Anyone have success? Feedback?

Thank you!
-Gary

[butchie_t]

Just leave it out and just let it air out. Probably best you can do with it.

[Jcfowler6]

Baking soda is very good at removing smoke smell. I purchased a collection once that was from a long time smoker. Worked like a charm. I took a larger cooler put items in it. Taped shut with duct tape after I placed an open box of baking soda. No need to pour any out. Just cut open top of the baking soda box. Place inside with items. Tape shut. I gave it a month. Not sure if it would take less time. the smell was gone when I opened it.


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[Snapolit1]

Relieved we weren’t discussing pants.

[GoCubsGo32]

Originally Posted by Jcfowler6

Baking soda is very good at removing smoke smell. I purchased a collection once that was from a long time smoker. Worked like a charm. I took a larger cooler put items in it. Taped shut with duct tape after I placed an open box of baking soda. No need to pour any out. Just cut open top of the baking soda box. Place inside with items. Tape shut. I gave it a month. Not sure if it would take less time. the smell was gone when I opened it.


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Thank you!

I did just that....now the waiting game. Time capsule to be open March 29 with results...*fingers crossed*!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo32

Thank you!

I did just that....now the waiting game. Time capsule to be open March 29 with results...*fingers crossed*!

Awesome, let us know how it worked. They make baking soda packaging that you just open both sides of the box that has a flo-thu design. They would work great for something like this.

I am a little late but I use Mycomist. I have the pump spray bottle and it works wonders. It is basically the concentrated stuff they use in bowling shoes. So it kills anything bad along with odor control. I am using it on 4 vintage BB gloves now.

[HankAaron755]

Do you believe the baking soda trick would work for old magazines? Have a number of Sports Illustrated magazines from the 1960s that have a musty smell to them. They do not appear to have water damage or mildew, but have a distinct dingey basement smell.

Would sealing them in a tub with an opened box of baking powder relieve some of this odor?

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by HankAaron755

Do you believe the baking soda trick would work for old magazines? Have a number of Sports Illustrated magazines from the 1960s that have a musty smell to them. They do not appear to have water damage or mildew, but have a distinct dingey basement smell.

Would sealing them in a tub with an opened box of baking powder relieve some of this odor?

It couldn’t hurt ti try, I don’t think.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Relieved we weren’t discussing pants.

I was thinking, specifically, of the pants Kruk was wearing during the 1993 All Star game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcfUSDT10s