I have 2 plastic toolboxes, there is nothing in them, except tools. Why the smell? ok everyone go smell the inside of your plastic toolboxes, and tell me why, thank you
2007-07-24 01:01:48 · 7 answers · asked by misti1251 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
they may be emmitting chemicals that are used in manufacture try leaving them open to air out
2007-07-24 02:03:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you use the tools or just smell them? Just kidding, forgive me. Plastics tend to absorb the odors of their contents readily and the smell may emanating from something in the tool box or just remnant of a past inhabitant. Smell an empty coffee container (plastic one of course that's been empty for some time) sometime, still smells like coffee. I don't own any plastic toolboxes but my tackle boxes are, and they tend to smell just like the artificial bait stored in them (once - the previous fishing seasons live bait, no longer living, yep that was bad.) Other than that, I'm not sure what the aroma is that you speak of.
2007-07-24 14:55:55 · answer #2 · answered by ~KDN~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plastic is made with plasticizing chemicals to help the forming process. That is what you are smelling not the plastic itself. It will eventually go away as the plasticizer migrates to the surface and evaporates.
I have never heard of anyone who smells toolboxes. Is it a pleasant fetish of some kind?
2007-07-24 02:43:52 · answer #3 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really enough information but I'll give it a shot. Maybe they had water sitting in them at one time. Standing water can stink pretty bad.
Maybe they had oily tools sitting in them at one time. I mean greasy oily tools can stink.
Maybe the tool box was used for fishing tackle box before or a lunch box. You never know.
2007-07-24 01:40:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it smells like poo. i know what you mean, i think thats just the smell of a mixture of metal, rubber, plastic, dirt and whatever else. i remember when i was a kid and opened my grandpas toolbox and all his tools smelled like poo. now i'm older , have my own tools and they have that poo smell... he he he??????????
2007-07-28 12:37:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it stinks because of the heat when its closed no air goes in it so heat starts to develop causing moisture which after a while starts to stink because of the heat
2007-07-24 02:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by westcut 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the mouse that lived in it left some droppings.
2007-07-24 03:38:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋