I'm sure this has happened to others, but the four foot freezer I had kept some always frozen film in, apparently had a power outage of several days when it's power cord disconnected from the wall socket, about five years back, and though it only held a single package of meat, it was enough to stink the thing up.
I used Lysol to spray the insides to clear the odor, after a quick wipe down and I did no worry about few bricks of films, as they were, I thought, ok in their original packaging, inside sealed plastic freezer bags.
Boy, was I wrong!
I'm in the final stages of a photography vacation with my Rozeann, in a rented RV, with kitchen, and I did no notice anything wrong about the frozen film I pulled out to carry along.
There was no enough room in the RV freezer for the bags of film, so we placed it into the refrigerator, for the trip and to better cold to warm times if I use any of it.
It 'Thawed' over night in the fridge and suddenly, we have the awful smell of that freezer misadventure, in the paper film boxes, and it permiates in that fridge despite a change of gallon size resealable freezer bags when the smell was discovered.
Right now, I've resorted to putting all the film, inbb including a bulk roll of 35mm b&w, into a delicates washing bag, went crazy with Lysol Spray, out of the RV, with windows closed, and gave the film boxes a couple of good spraydowns, then, before the Spray dried, placed the bag into the top half of a large kitchen trash bag, which I also gently poured a box of baking soda, on the bottom of said trash bag.
The holed bag is fixed to the top inside of the trash bag and hanging, not in the fridge, but from an upper cabinet door handle, so it does no get powdered baking soda on the boxes.
Tomorrow, I'll place the films back into new bags, after deboxing them, and I hope the plastic rolls do no carry that order back into the fridge.
I want to get one shot of the film in it's box's as a reminder, so that's why I haven't removed the boxes yet.
Long story short, check your own long term freezers to be sure nothing has gone bad and tainted you film boxes as well, of you might just thaw out some really offensive orders of your own, in the future.
Cheers
I used Lysol to spray the insides to clear the odor, after a quick wipe down and I did no worry about few bricks of films, as they were, I thought, ok in their original packaging, inside sealed plastic freezer bags.
Boy, was I wrong!
I'm in the final stages of a photography vacation with my Rozeann, in a rented RV, with kitchen, and I did no notice anything wrong about the frozen film I pulled out to carry along.
There was no enough room in the RV freezer for the bags of film, so we placed it into the refrigerator, for the trip and to better cold to warm times if I use any of it.
It 'Thawed' over night in the fridge and suddenly, we have the awful smell of that freezer misadventure, in the paper film boxes, and it permiates in that fridge despite a change of gallon size resealable freezer bags when the smell was discovered.
Right now, I've resorted to putting all the film, inbb including a bulk roll of 35mm b&w, into a delicates washing bag, went crazy with Lysol Spray, out of the RV, with windows closed, and gave the film boxes a couple of good spraydowns, then, before the Spray dried, placed the bag into the top half of a large kitchen trash bag, which I also gently poured a box of baking soda, on the bottom of said trash bag.
The holed bag is fixed to the top inside of the trash bag and hanging, not in the fridge, but from an upper cabinet door handle, so it does no get powdered baking soda on the boxes.
Tomorrow, I'll place the films back into new bags, after deboxing them, and I hope the plastic rolls do no carry that order back into the fridge.
I want to get one shot of the film in it's box's as a reminder, so that's why I haven't removed the boxes yet.
Long story short, check your own long term freezers to be sure nothing has gone bad and tainted you film boxes as well, of you might just thaw out some really offensive orders of your own, in the future.
Cheers