Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
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Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
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Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#25 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#35 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
A cat?
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#45 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Running 'cat' too many times.
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#5I know there's a family of compounds found in wine that can smell like cat urine[1]. If this laptop has a rubberized component, some googling[2] indicates these same compounds may be employed in their manufacture.
1. http://www.wineanorak.com/mercaptansinwine.htm
2. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130310034151AA...
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#65 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Happens all the time with shady third-party manufacturers in countries other than your own.
You get a perfectly nice sample unit that meets all specs and looks beautiful. When the container arrives off the boat with 100,000 production units you find materials have been substituted with cheaper materials, scrap plastic, and scavenged components.
Walk into any dollar store and you'll smell something similar to this, cheap plastics off-gassing all kinds of wonderful substances. I picked up a flashlight once that literally smelled of kerosene, probably because that's what the overseas factory used as a plasticizer to get that "rubbery" feel on the handle.
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#7Is Dell's assembly line located inside an industrial laundry building by any chance?
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#85 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
It's interesting. Bad capacitors (http://news.cnet.com/When-good-capacitors-go-bad/2100-1041_3...) maybe?
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#95 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Thermoplastic manufacturing is crazy. There's no end of chemical additives used for variant purposes, and substitutes for them for certain usages. Apparently this batch discovered some new chemistry and there was no QA process in place to catch it.
Re: Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
#10Funny, but when I read the first staff comments I thought it was actually a bot responding :)
After comment #4 auto-pilot goes offline