MDF gassing

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Topic: MDF gassing

Posted By: dwarren
Subject: MDF gassing
Date Posted: March 12, 2005 at 3:10 PM

anyone know how long it takes before mdf stops gassing, as it stands my car smells like a morgue from a box and two mdf speaker rings I made. Any way to defeat this odor?

the odor seems more potent when the weather warms up.

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Posted By: Chad7n7
Date Posted: March 12, 2005 at 5:34 PM

A couple weeks, and you shouldn't really smell it anymore, it gets less and less distinctive.

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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: March 12, 2005 at 10:33 PM

I've never really noticed any bad smell from MDF. But yeah, if it is moist at all it will dry out and stop smelling shortly.

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Posted By: ss-installer
Date Posted: March 13, 2005 at 9:24 AM

its an aquired smell, i love it with a beer.

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Posted By: oonikfraleyoo
Date Posted: March 13, 2005 at 2:40 PM

MDF has never bothered me. The smell of a fresh fiberglass box riding in back is another story.

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Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: March 13, 2005 at 3:24 PM

well that odor of FB is quite potent I will agree. but that formaldehyde odor seems to alter my concious...

I had to grind the rings down in the door panels and most of the dust entered my car, so now when the windows are down its like i am sanding all over again, I am a dirty installer I guess.

as far as the temp changing; when my subs warm up that damn box really starts to emit a even more potent odor...but oh well

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