Workshop smells

[Am333rcr]

Good burnt fuel from my oily diesel some my old fordson.

Not a garage smell but spent shotgun cartridges

 

[rtbcomp]

My Dad used to have a Primus blow lamp when I was a kid. I was always fascinated by it and loved the smell of the meths and parrafin burning.

And the smell of burnt paint.

 

[arther dailey]

Fresh cut wood,fresh cut grass, TVO fergie tractor, and wood burning on the parkray in winter, yup none of those are in my workshop ,the concrete drying when it has waterproofer and frost proofer in it is also a good smell.

 

[arther dailey]

possibly my favorite a proper bon fire

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Just left mine to grab another beer, returning the smells were fantastic.

Metal grinding.
Welding fumes.
Linseed oil.
Bee's wax.
Brewed coffee.
Beer.

 

[Cobbler]

I can still recall the smell of TVR from when tractors drove past as a child, I suppose it's nostalgia! I've seen it somewhere that smells are the most memory inducing sense we have.

Should have read TVO, auto-correct again!

 

[Maker]

I don't think anyone has said Creosote yet.

 

[wookie]

I don't think anyone has said Creosote yet.

Oh yes, creosote especially on a warm sunny day... mmmm

 

[bs85]

I don't think anyone has said Creosote yet.

Found creosote good for clearing a blocked nose.

 

[arther dailey]

Shotgun cartridges ,yup ,loverly but you get funny looks sniffing the chambers when you eject rather than blowing the smoke down the tubes like most do at the local clay busters ground

 

[Am333rcr]

Good burnt fuel from my oily diesel some my old fordson.

Not a garage smell but spent shotgun cartridges

Dam predicted txt. I should have checked before I sent it.

Burnt petrol from my wee series land rover and my diesel fordson

Also spent shot gun cartridge's.

 

[BarrieJ]

Methylated Spirits from lighting a paraffin blowlamp, the smell of paint being burnt off, fresh putty, linseed oil and coke burning in my old forge.

Always have a pang of nostalgia for the smell of a steam engine pulling into a station, hot oil, hot metal and burning coal and the kaleidoscope of smells on the surface of a colliery, pine pit props, hot oil, coal, steam and horse manure.

 

[GW8IZR]

When I was an apprentice on the railway, the signal bobby's used the gas hobs to warm the signal box, the smell of partially combusted gas used to waft into the locking frame and equipment room - every so often when I light the gas grill I get the same waft for a second or so I'm transported back to my youth. Funny how smells can do this :-)

For me .. any hot oil smell is pleasant but as we have drifted away from the original topic and included generic smells.. hot clay mud and oil on a Quatro ( or any rally car really ) exhaust after smashing past in a blaze of Cibbies - any Forrest stage at night will do for me!