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If you want to accelerate the process you might try this-
Take a salad bowl, small saucepan or equivalent vessel, and fill it with tepid water. Add and mix-in 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda. Immerse the cards and slosh them around for about 15 minutes. Rinse and dry. Air for a few hours before you put them back in the box.
Worked for me.
Worked for me too! Thanks for the tip.
I am also leaving the second deck spread out on the dining room table for a couple days to see if that works too.
And, I put the jokers and ad cards from my Copags and Dal Negros in the dishwasher tonight... it worked and there were absolutely no problems. I'm going to do a more thorough test after I dirty some up.
OK, I must Haiku again...
Dal Negros
Extraordinary
They really smell bad brand new
Some like it, but why?
Where I find this method really works well - is on the acrid "plastic-vinegar" smell (kind of hard to describe) that Copag's and some Kems have. That's where I got the idea.
The freedoms I just got don't smell too bad. I have to hold them up to my fac to smell them. One deck of my kems on the otherhand smelled awful for awhile. Now they are okay, but I think the Dal Negros are better. (They smell like really strong altoids to me. Strange.)
You think they were made in a third world sweat shop?
I believe it's the curing chemicals used during the manufacturing that makes them smell like that. I'm no chemist, but when I saw Cellulose Acetate as the composition, the Acetic Acid smell (vinegar) made sense.
Knowing that baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate), neutralizes vinegar- the rest was simple deduction.
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