On Friday, September 6, 2013 11:16:39 AM UTC-7, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:03:22 -0500, The Daring Dufas

wrote:



On 9/6/2013 12:09 PM, Oren wrote:

On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:22:46 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:



Did you pull out the drain pan? They are easily forgotten and can get

nasty



Exactly. Especially in units in the 50's - 60's. Areas with high

humidity. After cleaning the pan, Mom would add about 1/3 cup of

bleach in the pan that seemed to reduce any lingering smell.



Another nasty smell came from fish, Black Mullet. Due to the mercury

content the fish would not freeze completely and eventually was able

to rot in the freezer. Folks would salt cure the fish in an wooden

barrel before they had refrigerators.





If someone ate a lot of the poisonous mercury containing Black Mullet,

wouldn't that person pop their top if they got too hot or angry? O_o



TDD





chuckle



I presume folks didn't know about the mercury or dangers back then. As

a kid we played with mercury from T-stats, it never harmed me (twitch,

twitch, twitch).

OMG - a trip down Memory Lane! As a child, I played with mercury from a broken thermometer??!! Who knew??!!!

knock on wood (bangs head) appear not to have suffered consequences but writing this lower case just in case the jealous gods are tapping our internet half as successfully as the nsa..

HB

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