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jb · 03-31-2011, 08:17 PM

I don't know how old these beads are, but over the last month or two I have started noticing a funky smell. More pronounced when I wet them. Almost like citrus. Anyone else notice this?

eduardo · 04-01-2011, 12:21 AM

Never noticed a smell. They are turning yellowish brown over the years though.

xrundog · 04-01-2011, 03:43 AM

They do pull in some moisture from the cedar and the cigars as well. This doesn't affect performance. There's no way (that I know of) to clean them.

Mad Dawg · 04-01-2011, 04:50 AM

Coloring over time? Affirmative.

Funky smell? Negative.

I have beads that have been in use for more than 5 years. The only smell they've accumulated in that time is a rather potent cedar aroma that really comes out when I wet them.

ak2000 · 04-01-2011, 03:53 PM

I would toss 'em

Smoker06 · 04-08-2011, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Dawg

Coloring over time? Affirmative.

Funky smell? Negative.

I have beads that have been in use for more than 5 years. The only smell they've accumulated in that time is a rather potent cedar aroma that really comes out when I wet them.

Me too. Light brown beads, heavy cedar smell.

Briandg · 04-08-2011, 06:50 AM

Water goes in and out of the beads as it cycles, being reabsorbed from the box. It's gonna carry some stuff with it that will stay in the beads, and it'll discolor them. that's gonna be normal.

An acid smell, to me, indicates some sort of biological contamination that has released some sort of chemical. Looking like it might even have been some sort of lactobacillus that fed on whatever by products went in that darkened the beads, as there would have been traces of sugar in it. toss them into the flower beds, IMO.

If it was me, I'd think about letting them dry, saturating them with h2o2, letting them dry out some, and another saturation with distilled. May work, should decontaminate them, but probably not worth the trouble. I'd do it out of curiousity.

gumby · 04-01-2011, 05:39 PM

that's what she said

bsslack · 04-01-2011, 06:37 PM

Ahhh, Cerveza Mas Fina Beads!

Time to retire that Batch! Si!

Cheers!

slack

H311oLHD · 04-12-2011, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jb

I don't know how old these beads are, but over the last month or two I have started noticing a funky smell. More pronounced when I wet them. Almost like citrus. Anyone else notice this?

Yes, but more like cedar than anything else.

03-31-2011, 08:17 PM	#1
jb Contributing Editor Herf Meister Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Kansas Posts: 8,058	Funky smelling beads I don't know how old these beads are, but over the last month or two I have started noticing a funky smell. More pronounced when I wet them. Almost like citrus. Anyone else notice this? __________________ ISO Opus DCs, RdC, Perf X, #2, and Super Beli. PM if you can help! TIA.

04-01-2011, 12:21 AM	#2
eduardo Club Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Somewhere in a Cloud of Smoke Posts: 1,371	Never noticed a smell. They are turning yellowish brown over the years though. __________________ "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a fine cigar."

04-01-2011, 04:50 AM	#4
Mad Dawg Administrator Herf Dog Herf God Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 34,199	Coloring over time? Affirmative. Funky smell? Negative. I have beads that have been in use for more than 5 years. The only smell they've accumulated in that time is a rather potent cedar aroma that really comes out when I wet them. __________________ Gone, But Never Forgotten. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ That which does not kill me....has made a grave tactical error.

04-01-2011, 03:53 PM	#5
ak2000 Charter Member Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 10,603	I would toss 'em __________________ Cigars are brain food...... JLOH #19

04-01-2011, 05:39 PM	#8
gumby Contributing Editor MOM November 2012 Emeritus Honorary MOM November 2021 Herf God Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 47,291	that's what she said __________________ I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

04-01-2011, 03:43 AM	#3
xrundog Contributing Editor Herf Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Central, Iowa Posts: 9,806	They do pull in some moisture from the cedar and the cigars as well. This doesn't affect performance. There's no way (that I know of) to clean them.

04-08-2011, 06:50 AM	#7
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Water goes in and out of the beads as it cycles, being reabsorbed from the box. It's gonna carry some stuff with it that will stay in the beads, and it'll discolor them. that's gonna be normal. An acid smell, to me, indicates some sort of biological contamination that has released some sort of chemical. Looking like it might even have been some sort of lactobacillus that fed on whatever by products went in that darkened the beads, as there would have been traces of sugar in it. toss them into the flower beds, IMO. If it was me, I'd think about letting them dry, saturating them with h2o2, letting them dry out some, and another saturation with distilled. May work, should decontaminate them, but probably not worth the trouble. I'd do it out of curiousity.

04-01-2011, 06:37 PM	#9
bsslack Herf Meister Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: A Lone Star State Posts: 7,412	Ahhh, Cerveza Mas Fina Beads! Time to retire that Batch! Si! Cheers! slack __________________ LB... Do not Hold Your Heart's True Words, until they can only fall upon the saddened ears and broken hearts, already filled with the loudness of grief. -unk ...Quick to Judgement...Quick to Anger and Slow To Understand... -Rush (it was true then and it's still applies today.) Remember EVERY American Soldier Past and Present.-You -Me -Everybody

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