Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Tue May 23, 2023 10:43 am

Like cleaning up after a crime scene--correction--EXACTLY!
Smoking around cpap machines should be a crime.

Rob K · Post by **Rob K** » Tue May 23, 2023 8:20 pm

That is so gross. No way I would have tried to bring that one back. Does the boiling or baking clean up silicone and plastic that is turning yellow? I have some old masks and cushions that aren't being made anymore. It's the only mask that has worked decently for me so I keep going back to it. They are still usable but they are not looking good.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Tue May 23, 2023 9:07 pm

Actually, disaster restoration is big business.
Mostly because average folks are too squeamish to DIY.

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed May 24, 2023 12:59 am

Rob K wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 8:20 pm
That is so gross. No way I would have tried to bring that one back. Does the boiling or baking clean up silicone and plastic that is turning yellow? I have some old masks and cushions that aren't being made anymore. It's the only mask that has worked decently for me so I keep going back to it. They are still usable but they are not looking good.

google this:

site:cpaptalk.com boiling stuff

Conrad · Post by **Conrad** » Wed May 24, 2023 6:19 am

palerider wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 9:34 am

Conrad wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 7:16 am
Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't imagine how the interior of that machine got so gross! The person had to be smoking while the machine was running in order for all that nastiness it get inside and perhaps blowing their smoke right into the intake.

I hope that you didn't pay too much for that thing?

Again, YUCK!
I didn't, no.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine how it got that way. The outside of it was a light brown, paper towel and a little alcohol, and the color change was unreal, and the paper towel was black.

I had to use gloves while handling it.

Can you imagine what this person's house and car must be like? I see cars all the time that have a light brown coating on the insides of their windows.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Fri May 26, 2023 5:59 pm

Conrad wrote: ↑
Wed May 24, 2023 6:19 am
. . .
Can you imagine what this person's house and car must be like? I see cars all the time that have a light brown coating on the insides of their windows.

Smoker's cars used to be always losing the headliner, as smoke destroyed the adhesive.
You could look over at the light, and it looked like a tent was falling down in the car.
If you could see through the haze, that is.

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