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Howdy Gun-Fanciers,
This may just be a "me" issue as I have a bionic nose that a sommelier would kill for due to some hearing loss at a young age and what I think was my brain repurposing some neurons to the Ol' Factory—my sense of smell.
I've purchased some items via PPT and no offense intended to anyone, but some of the gear REEKED of cologne, and some gear just emanated enough cologne where it bothered me but probably wouldn't bother anyone with a normal sense of smell. I'm telling you, Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers have nothing on me here.
This of course is not a commentary on people, just cologne-imbued gear which probably built up over time. Every PPT buyer and seller has been a pleasure to deal with to-date.
Nathan of @WojtekWeaponry mentioned in a thread to use coffee beans to neutralize the scent. I got some coffee beans (something cheap) and filled a spacious plastic container, something big enough to accommodate a CZ case. If you know CZ, their cases are large (especially for the Tactical Sports series) and these would accommodate a case from nearly any other brand.
Well I gotta say, it worked a treat. Leave the case, mags, gun, etc. in a coffee bean-filled case for as long as you like and it'll definitely kill the cologne smell. Of course, cleaning parts works too and that was the very first thing I tried—but the coffee beans were the most effective.
One guy at a gun shop commented that he thought the coffee-infused gun parts smelled good and I agreed, much better than Brut or Old Spice or Axe or whatever people are getting on their guns before a sale. I even sold a used Tesla (a gorgeous specimen) because I could NOT get Chanel No. 5 out of the front passenger seat! That's a high-quality perfume too, but it ended up on my girlfriend when she rode shotgun. I remember with my brand new car (20 minutes old) how upset I was to learn that the window-tinting guy wore huge amounts of cologne when tinting my windows. I asked him NOT to wear cologne in the car for subsequent work and he did anyway. This is the primary reason I will not return to his shop.
Granted, not everyone slathers too much cologne or gets this on their gear, but as a PPT buyer with a bionic nose, I beseech sellers to be aware of this phenomenon...or don't, because cheap coffee beans in a closed container will sort out those offending molecules in due course.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
This may just be a "me" issue as I have a bionic nose that a sommelier would kill for due to some hearing loss at a young age and what I think was my brain repurposing some neurons to the Ol' Factory—my sense of smell.
I've purchased some items via PPT and no offense intended to anyone, but some of the gear REEKED of cologne, and some gear just emanated enough cologne where it bothered me but probably wouldn't bother anyone with a normal sense of smell. I'm telling you, Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers have nothing on me here.
This of course is not a commentary on people, just cologne-imbued gear which probably built up over time. Every PPT buyer and seller has been a pleasure to deal with to-date.
Nathan of @WojtekWeaponry mentioned in a thread to use coffee beans to neutralize the scent. I got some coffee beans (something cheap) and filled a spacious plastic container, something big enough to accommodate a CZ case. If you know CZ, their cases are large (especially for the Tactical Sports series) and these would accommodate a case from nearly any other brand.
Well I gotta say, it worked a treat. Leave the case, mags, gun, etc. in a coffee bean-filled case for as long as you like and it'll definitely kill the cologne smell. Of course, cleaning parts works too and that was the very first thing I tried—but the coffee beans were the most effective.
One guy at a gun shop commented that he thought the coffee-infused gun parts smelled good and I agreed, much better than Brut or Old Spice or Axe or whatever people are getting on their guns before a sale. I even sold a used Tesla (a gorgeous specimen) because I could NOT get Chanel No. 5 out of the front passenger seat! That's a high-quality perfume too, but it ended up on my girlfriend when she rode shotgun. I remember with my brand new car (20 minutes old) how upset I was to learn that the window-tinting guy wore huge amounts of cologne when tinting my windows. I asked him NOT to wear cologne in the car for subsequent work and he did anyway. This is the primary reason I will not return to his shop.
Granted, not everyone slathers too much cologne or gets this on their gear, but as a PPT buyer with a bionic nose, I beseech sellers to be aware of this phenomenon...or don't, because cheap coffee beans in a closed container will sort out those offending molecules in due course.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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smelled heavy of cologne. Like drakkar noir concentrated. Like the cologne you smelled as a kid that you knew it was an old fart's cologne. I tried everything. Rice, coffee, alcohol (i think this made it worse), i just couldn't bear the smell.
