The smell of OLD Plastic Squeeze bottles.

From: David Eastman (clearemulsions@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/10/02-06:07:55 AM Z

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The smell of OLD Plastic Squeeze bottles!

After a few years of use (or inactivity?), I notice
that my squeeze bottles (PP or PE)develop a tell-tale
smell... I have rinsed them for hours, tried acid
rinses, ethanol and methanol rinses...nothing works,
but well, it may have weakened a bit.

Does anyone have any experience with this?
What causes this smell?
It appears only to be on the inside... These bottles
were only used for distilled/deionized water, kept
mostly in the dark, under red, or low level
flourescent light.

Removing the smell is potentially important in the
process I am using.

The bottles are otherwise in good shape and it seems
wasteful to start the whole process over again with
new bottles....

ANY IDEAS?

Ray

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