N_Cook wrote:

[...]
And in the case of rotted horse manure smell from some types of old
transformer windings perhaps Caproic Acid or Hexanoic acid giving that smell

Some pre war Philips radio sets had rubber-covered wiring that stank
like rotted manure when you touched it with a soldering iron. I have no
idea what they used in it that was different from other makes.

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