Strong smell of TCP?

[yodeli]

@Mousy
Right , now that you found out where the prob was, may I ask you what TCP stands for, as all I found on internet was Tansmission Control Protocol ... which of course , is like money...and has no smell!!
At first I thought may be it was something like Total Crap Prob or even worse ... Poo !
But that could not be dangerous ... I mean unless you have a very sensitive sense of smell

So now giving up... but dying to know what on earth it can be!

Thank you

Frankie

 

[Mousy]

Hi Frankie, it's an antiseptic medicine. It's bought in a brown bottle and is a vile yellow colour the smell is very distinctive.

If you want to know what it smells of try burning a pcb...

Caio bella.

 

[Mousy]

 

[lesleyjean]

 

[Stretto Boy]

It stands for TriChloroPhenylmethyliodosalicyl

I thought everyone knew that!

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[Larrynwin]

It's true source is from the household pet feline, Tom Cats Pee

 

[Stretto Boy]

It's true source is from the household pet feline, Tom Cats Pee

No : it's Tom Cats Piss. Must get the detail right

 

[yodeli]

Never heard or seen this before .... Will have to, next time I go to the UK unless some funster stops here and has a bottle of the stuff so I can see it and obviously smell it!

 

[Larrynwin]

No : it's Tom Cats Piss. Must get the detail right

Being a gentleman I avoided using a vulgar word on open forum

 

[yodeli]

It stands for TriChloroPhenylmethyliodosalicyl

I thought everyone knew that!

Outch ! I think I will better cope with TCP

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[cliffanger]

@yodeli Frankie - if you have ever smelt it (and you would have if you had been brought up in the UK in the 50s/60s/s70's) - you would never have got the smell out of your nose/memory - I can smell it now, and I won't have it in the house.....

 

[Bailey58]

I thought everybody had a bottle of this in their medicine cupboard, ours is at least 30 years old and still ¾ full.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Ahh those were the days when you were a kid and had a sore throat.

Reach for the TCP and have a gargle, I kid you not

Cut on your leg? yep you guessed it good old TCP again

 

[Stretto Boy]

Best thing ever for a sore throat. Just gargle away with a dilute solution as instructed : it does work!

 

[The Dotties]

It stands for TriChloroPhenylmethyliodosalicyl

I thought everyone knew that!

I'm saving that reply for the next funster rally quiz

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[cranky]

Best thing ever for a sore throat. Just gargle away with a dilute solution as instructed : it does work!

Laphroig works better and you don't have to spit it out

 

[Mr Mousy]

Good news (for us) we survived the night! Now enjoying an expresso in the sunshine.

 

[Masman]

Martin says he's got at least 10 "Chinese" ones on board...as was the burnt out one

Hi mousy. I had same problem ,luckily I was in van when it melted. Check them all. I had three melt. Luckily we never leave light's on when we got out. Hate to think what could have happened had I not been in. I replaced all mine with some from Aten lighting. All still cool after a year of use.

 

[Stretto Boy]

Being a gentleman I avoided using a vulgar word on open forum

Ah, if only "urine" began with the letter P it would have saved me getting into trouble On the bright side, if our Eternal Leader Jim is to reprimand me by sending me to Coventry, it would be much appreciated if it could be to the Ricoh Arena around 2.30 pm tomorrow. This will be in good time for me to settle down before the kick-off against Walsall and will save me the diesel and car parking charges

 

[jockaneezer]

Years ago, we were loaned a Peugeot 106 when our car was in for repair. It absolutely stunk of Germoline, especially around the drivers seat, we wondered if the previous owner had suffered from terminal "Farmer Giles"

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[Stretto Boy]

Ah, if only "urine" began with the letter P it would have saved me getting into trouble

Oh, I forgot : urine does begin with a pee. Or is that Purine, which as you all know is a heterocyclic aromatic compound consisting of a pyrimidine ring bonded to an imidazole ring

 

[CWH]

Oh, I forgot : urine does begin with a pee. Or is that Purine, which as you all know is a heterocyclic aromatic compound consisting of a pyrimidine ring bonded to an imidazole ring

Who said that?

 

[hilldweller]

Has anyone asked why there was a smell when the cupboard was probably no open, is the LED on all the time ?

 

[Mousy]

Has anyone asked why there was a smell when the cupboard was probably no open, is the LED on all the time ?

The smell was very strong Brian, as soon as we opened the van door. The light only works when the cupboard door is opened. However I had hung some clothes from a hook on the inside of the cupboard door and we wonder if although the door was shut the light might have been on and we didn't notice.

 

[Stretto Boy]

I'm saving that reply for the next funster rally quiz

Be sure to spell it correctly!

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[hilldweller]

although the door was shut the light might have been on and we didn't notice.

Worth a check, not only heats up the LED it's draining your hab battery.

 

[Mousy]

Worth a check, not only heats up the LED it's draining your hab battery.

We were on hook up which is rare for us so yes, no more lazy clothes hanging for me.

 

[denisejoe]

So glad it's sorted !
I hate the smell of TCP it reminds me of grazed knees as children!!

When I was small it was brown stuff called iodine you didn't fall over after that

Joe

 

[Anthea M]

When I was small it was brown stuff called iodine you didn't fall over after that

Joe

Yes it stained your legs for ages!

 

[Teuchter]

Laphroig works better and you don't have to spit it out

Oh yes you do!! - those smokey/peaty Islay whiskys taste like drinking a smoked mackerel sourmash Oh Please!

Try a Highland or Speyside single malt - now that is worth savouring

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