is there any remedy for cigarette smoke

leftwinger57

You just about always see speakers from a pet free smoke fee houses and that's a great selling point. My 2Bs were from such a house. What if you find some nice SDAs or 10s or whatever brand you fancy and it's inundated w/ smoke stink. Is there anything thing that one could do to rid that smell. I was thinking of the Windex treatment for the drivers but that's usually a cursory cleaning and not a deep one at that.So do you just walk away from the stink or is there anything even over time that can rid the smell?

Schurkey

Windex has been suggested. My personal favorite for dissolving cigarette smoke from walls and other hard surfaces is Parson's Sudsy Ammonia. Most places sell it in the "lemon scent" version, but plain or lemon works great.

Don't forget to wash the grille cloth and cloth side panels. Clean or replace your rag often--after every wipe--or you just move the smoke residue around without actually removing it.







Do not, ever, mix ammonia with bleach.

westmassguy

Smoke has never deterred me from a sweet deal on a pair of speakers. The Monitors and smaller SDAs usually came with wood grained vinyl. Clean every square inch of the exterior with 409/Fantastic. If there's heavy wax buildup, try Purple Power, or judicious use of de-natured alcohol to remove it without damaging the vinyl. For the larger SDAs, and Monitors/RTAs that had real wood veneer, Murphy's Oil Soap will get the smoke off, just don't saturate the wood. Wipe it on, then wipe it off with a clean rag. Grills with wood frames will need to have the grill cloth replaced, and the frames re-painted flat black both sides. Late Production Monitors came with plastic grill frames. Those can be vacuumed, then sprayed down with 409/Fantastic, place them in the shower, and wash them down with warm water. You may have to do it two or more times. As a last step, lightly spray them with Fabreeze while still damp, and put them in the sun to dry. Do not attempt this with wood frame grills.
Windex and microfiber cloths will remove all the smoke from the woofers and PRs.
It may take more than one cleaning. Also the dust caps can be cleaned by wetting the microfiber Cloth with Windex, and gently wiping the dust cap until it's wet, then just let it dry. On heavily soiled woofers and PRs, I use 409/Fantastic on the rubber surrounds and exposed frame first, then do the whole woofer/PR again with Windex.

pitdogg2

another nicotine eater and just melts it away... Don't laugh its called "Totally awesome cleaner" sold at dollar stores. I laughed as dad bought it but after he died (heavy smoker) I used it on the walls and the residue just ran down the walls and got blacker as it found gravity. its cheap its safe and it works and is easy on human skin.

leftwinger57

All right,so it's possible to cure a smoke stinked speaker. Over at AK they just touched on cleaning grill covers and some said for the most part if not edged w/ wood you could bathe them in a Dawn solution then air or fan dry. Thankfully I have not come across said stinkers but one never knows.

oldmodman

My go-to method of odor removal has always been my ozone generator. I have used it on the worlds stinkiest problem. Spilled milk and dirty diapers in a Mom-mobile Minivan. Even after steam cleaning the entire interior it still reeked. Ozone eliminated all odors.

To use it on a speaker I would get a huge dry cleaning bag and put it over the speaker and the ozone generator. Yes, I know that ozone will deteriorate the foam speaker surrounds. But not in the time they will be exposed to the ozone.

F1nut

Start smoking.

PolkieMan

Yea my 1C smelled like they came out of a smokers study/office cigars mainly. I very very lightly sprayed them with Zep
http://www.amazon.com/Enforcer-ZUAIR32-Zep-Commercial-Sanitizer/dp/B003CUTEPC/ref=pd_bxgy_lg_text_y
using white hand towel size soft terry cloths and changing them frequently

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"is there any remedy for cigarette smoke"
death?