I love the smell of....

[hornadylnl]

a burnt coil in the morning. If you've ever smelled a burnt transformer or coil, you know exactly what smell I'm talking about.

I replaced it this morning and I can still smell it on my hands. The night shift replaced a motor and brake on a machine last night. They put a 110/240 coil on the motor brake and it's wired for 480. Needless to say, the coil didn't last very long. That, and the way the reassembled the brake, it would have never worked. I love following up on the incompetent.

 

[shibumiseeker]

It's a unique smell for sure.

 

[hornadylnl]

It's a unique smell for sure.

It must be the shellac they use on the windings.

 

[shibumiseeker]

It must be the shellac they use on the windings.

The funny part is it doesn't seem to depend on size. I've burnt up impedence matching transformers the size of an eraser, and smelled fried inverter transformers for the UPS for an entire computer machine room where the thing had to be forklifted out, and they smelled the same, the only difference being in how much of the building stunk after.

 

[hornadylnl]

I've seen small transformers melt down in cabinets that leave an oil all over everything. You can smell it in those cabinets for months.

 

[Thumper]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

 

[churchmouse]

That and there is the unique smell of a lamp ballast during melt down. The tar or whatever it is they insulate them in has a smell all of it's own.

 

[bds792]

Burnt LEDs, nothing like it.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

It's the lacquer. That magnet wire lacquer. LEDs stink their own way, resistors just stink like burnt crap, electrolytic capacitors stink like little else, but that lacquer burning, that's a special smell.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Nah..nah...nah....it's magic smoke. Once the magic smoke gets out, that kills your device and stinks up the place.

 

[churchmouse]

Nah..nah...nah....it's magic smoke. Once the magic smoke gets out, that kills your device and stinks up the place.

If you have a magic bag and are fast enough to catch the smoke you can get it back into the device and it will be fine. You can only do this one time per device....or so I am told.

 

[Colt556]

Jet exhaust. It always takes me back to my Navy days.... I miss them.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If you have a magic bag and are fast enough to catch the smoke you can get it back into the device and it will be fine. You can only do this one time per device....or so I am told.

There's been many times I really coulda used a magic smoke catchin' bag.

 

[tsalazar]

Love the smell of bacon cooking...also love the smell of gun powder.

 

[churchmouse]

There's been many times I really coulda used a magic smoke catchin' bag.

Oh yeah..........................

 

[Liberty1911]

I prefer coffee.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Bacon

 

[CBR1000rr]

Jet exhaust. It always takes me back to my Navy days.... I miss them.

Same here but not from planes. Nothing like the smell of a little JP8 in the morning from an M1.

The smell I enjoy the most? Diesel fuel. The smell from a diesel engine on a cool summer morning is amazing.

 

[Rookie]

Nothing is worse than chicken bones in a cold chamber. Guaranteed to make you puke.

 

[bass pro]

And once the smoke pours out its real hard to put it back in! lol