On 27 Feb 2007 13:30:17 -0800, "Louise65" wrote:

I have been having a burning rubber smell coming in the entrance way
to my 3rd floor condo. An electrician was out yesterday and checked
with no luck finding any electrical issues in my condo and in the
landing light outside my condo.

The smell is not in the next door condo - there are only two per
floor- and no smell reported in the condo immediately below mine.

The condo's utilize radiator heat on the opposite walls then the
smell. Also, the smell is worse at night.

In need of other suggestions or HELP!!

BTW there was a little study on tv 2 or 3 months ago that showed human
noses are better than many think. They pulled something with chocolate
in it along the grass and had people try to follow the path. They had
to get down on the ground and get their noses within an inch or less
of the ground, but that helped a lot. They also got much better with
a little practice. So I would say, Go look for the origin of the
smell. It's not the air itself.

Smells are strange. The one time I had a smelly basement, not burning
rubber but moisture related, I bought a 50-pound bad of that stuff
that dries things, and put it in a bucket (with a perforated divider
in the middle between the empty half and the other half.) After I
dried the floor area, I foudn the steps still smelled, even with my
nose 5 feet up. I put it on the second step, and after a day or two,
it didn't smell there, even though my nose was five feet up. I put it
on the 4th step, and that space smelled right after a couple days.
But the 3rd step didn't. I still this can't have been accurate, but
over time I put it on all the steps and the smell was gone. I would
think any smell might have been made weaker, but it would disperse and
be the same strength almost everywhere.

Oh, wrong story. Last month I plugged in an old phone machine that
hadn't been used for years. Almost immediately I smelled something
burning, although not rubber. I turned it off quickly and took it
apart, and turned it on and saw wisps of smoke. I couldn't see where
the smell was coming from, so before it stopped, I touched all the
parts. One was burning hot, although after a half hour the pain wa
gone and I didn't need any first aid. So now I know the what is
burning, but without a schematic, I can't even guess at what the bad
part is. It's probably not the part that is hot.