Ozone Locker

I decided to give the Ozone idea a try this season. It seemed plausible based on being used in hospitals and locker rooms all over the country to get rid of unwanted odors. I did a little research and talked to the owner of Whitetail'r, who makes the Scent Purge 50+ generator. While I'm far from a carpenter, I decided to build a locker to keep to all of my hunting items. In there I have underwear, towel, gloves, face masks, hoist ropes, my harness, bow hooks, pants, shirts, stand and sticks, just about everything I carry with me except for my bow. I got the idea of the locker from a video on YouTube and based the design off that. My dimensions were based on the least amount of plywood cuts so it is 6x4x2'. The generator is rated for 80 sq feet, and at 24 sq feet I am well under the maximum size. I finally installed the shelf this morning and my final step will be to install little wall-mounted baskets for my gloves and other small items.

As far as performance, it seems to work quite well. It took about a week to get rid of the plywood smell but now it's pretty much gone, and probably wasn't an issue in the first place. I still wash my clothing every few hunts, then spray it down with scent killer, and then put it in the locker with the generator running. It has a very fresh, natural rain-like odor to it. It takes my boots 2-3 days to be completely scent free but everything else is scent free after about 7-8 hours of hanging after a hunt. So far, so good.

 

good idea. think you should look at ventilating the ozone outside.

 

That is real nice bet it works well. No need to vent it will dissipate. Don't go over board on it ozone is hard on rubber.

 

Ozone is not stable in the atmosphere. It only has a half life of about 28 minutes and after that it breaks down into oxygen (O2). Per the owner and designer of the product there are no adverse effects and no need to vent it outside. I haven't noticed any effects other than the rain-like odor, and scent free clothes.

Ozone is pretty hard on rubber due to the fact that it is an oxidizer. It can also corrode metals but I haven't seen any evidence of that. I've been keeping a close eye on it.

 

That's cool, I really like it!!!!


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I was a little skeptical at first, but it's really cool to put smelly stuff in and pull fresh, scent free clothes out. When I take the clothes out they smell like a thunderstorm but by the time I get to my spot they have no smell at all. I don't know if that's due to olfactory fatigue or not, but I assume it's because of the O3 breaking down and dissipating.

 

Are you taking orders?

 

If I had a home ozone generator and built something like this would it be too powerful to use?

 

neat idea.
how much is the ozone generator itself?? and where did to get it?