Author:  yorbrick  Posted:  Dec 8, 2021 17:14  Subject:  Re: Cigarette smell  Viewed:  48 times  Topic:  Buying Cancel Reply	BrickLink ID Card yorbrick (1185) Location:  United Kingdom, England Member Since Contact Type Status Apr 11, 2011 Seller Store: Yorbricks
To get smoke smell out, soak them in vinegar. If really bad, keep them in there a few hours submerged. Then they smell like vinegar!

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Re: Cigarette smell - rab1234 (1970)

I don't agree with it, but technically, they can be sold as new: New Parts - Parts are brand new, taken directly from new sets or were purchased "as new" in another form such [...] (30 months ago, Dec 8, 2021, to Buying)

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Re: Cigarette smell - SylvainLS (46)

[...] Then add some salt and oil and they’ll smell and taste like fish & chips? ;) :P Anyway, vinegar can be rinced and pretty quickly “evaporates.” (30 months ago, Dec 8, 2021, to Buying)

Re: Cigarette smell - legoman77 (3628)

[...] At what point do they again smell like Lego? If they smell like vinegar and you put oil on them, do they smell like salad. If someone at Lego production passes by the bagging [...] (30 months ago, Dec 8, 2021, to Buying)

Re: Cigarette smell - rab1234 (1970)

Haha. Vinegar smell does disappear on its own pretty quickly. I’ve only ever ended up with one cigarette smoke batch. I couldn’t even stand the smell so I threw it all out [...] (30 months ago, Dec 8, 2021, to Buying)

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