Originally Posted by
Monroe
There are many remedies online for the stink of machine and its case. Some of the smell is from the old animal hide/hoof glues getting moldy, and in extreme cases where nothing else has worked using a clear craft spray to seal the case inside may be the only remedy short of peeling off the covering and bleaching the wood. A stinky machine can be easily cleaned and the felt in the drip pan replaced. Just don't put it back into the stinky case til you are sure it is fresh as a daisy.
Yes, there are many remedies. What worked for me was to spray the inside with Lysol till wet then I put the box, tilted, in the sun so the sun shone into the box, and left it there for the day turning as needed to keep the sun shining inside the box. Next day, I repeated the spray and sun. That helped a lot!! Then I bought some charcoal shoe liners (or pads) and put them in the bottom along with bar of Zest soap. I think the Lysol (spray until wet) and the sun did the best job but the charcoal and soap helps keep the odor from reappearing. I did not try coffee grounds. Do the Lysol/sun combination for several days and see if that doesn't help. We love our Featherweights and certainly don't want to store them in stinky cases. Good luck. Oh, one more thing. I keep the charcoal foot pads and the soap in the case all the time.