Plug-Ins Perfume Diffusers - Wicks ?

[o{O}o]

Anybody know where I could get spare wicks
for those plug-in room fragrance things ?

Or use something similar in place of the wicks
that would be suitable ie.long cig' filters.
The wicks are about 6cm long, 8mm thick.

The wicks use capillary action to draw the fluid
up to the small heating unit. Once in a while the
wicks need to be replaced.

I want to use quality essential oils in the bottles
instead of that air poison from Glade etc.

 

[Bushy]

Duck into KMart or one of the cheap shops and get replacement wicks for
outdoor mozzie burners. About the same thickness and a bit longer than you
need.

Hope this helps,
Peter

"o{O}o" <noname@smratchat.net.au> wrote in message
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Anybody know where I could get spare wicks
for those plug-in room fragrance things ?

Or use something similar in place of the wicks
that would be suitable ie.long cig' filters.
The wicks are about 6cm long, 8mm thick.

The wicks use capillary action to draw the fluid
up to the small heating unit. Once in a while the
wicks need to be replaced.

I want to use quality essential oils in the bottles
instead of that air poison from Glade etc.

 

[David L. Jones]

"o{O}o" <noname@smratchat.net.au> wrote in message news:<cgf252$am$1@perki.connect.com.au>...

Anybody know where I could get spare wicks
for those plug-in room fragrance things ?

Or use something similar in place of the wicks
that would be suitable ie.long cig' filters.
The wicks are about 6cm long, 8mm thick.

The wicks use capillary action to draw the fluid
up to the small heating unit. Once in a while the
wicks need to be replaced.

I want to use quality essential oils in the bottles
instead of that air poison from Glade etc.

Co-incidently I got this email today, which if true you might think
twice about using these things...

EMAIL: "Glade Electrical Plug Ins"
"Message as forwarded to me...

This is one of those e-mails that if you didn't send it, assuredly,
someone on your list will suffer for not reading it.......

My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last week. Their
house burned down...nothing left but ashes. They have good insurance,
so the home will be replaced and most of the contents. That is the
good news.

However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire.

The insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several hours.
He had the cause of the fire traced to the master bathroom. He asked
my sister-in-law what she had plugged in in the bathroom. She listed
the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying to her,
"No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high
temperatures. " Then, my sister-in-law remembered she had a Glade
Plug-in in the bathroom.

The investigator had one of those "Aha" moments.

He said that was the cause of the fire. He said he has seen more home
fires started with the plug in type room fresheners than anything
else. He said the plastic they are made from is a THIN plastic. He
said in every case there was nothing left to prove that it even
existed.

When the investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left
from the plug-in were still in there. My sister-in-law had one of the
plug-ins that had a small night light built in it. She said she had
noticed that the light would dim....and then finally go out. She
would walk in a few hours later, and the light would be back on again.

The investigator said that the unit was getting too hot, and would dim
and go out rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down,
it would come back on. That is a warning sign.

The investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug in
fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many burned
down homes.

Thought I would warn you all. I had several of them plugged in my
house.

I immediately took them all down.
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW!!!!"

END


Dave

 

[Rowan Crowe]

tronnort@yahoo.com (David L. Jones) wrote in message news:<894aa0b3.0408252338.2a5ed196@posting.google.com>...

PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW!!!!"

Snopes is the first place I check when I see something like that.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/glade.asp

Still "undetermined" ...