I have been carrying small pieces of old towels, moistened with water. I keep some wet ones in one baggy and dry ones in another. These seem to do a fine job of removing ink and they leave no fragrance.
Memlili




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I'd like to say something on that comment and please don't take this as an admonishment or a slap to the face or anything other than my sharing some knowledge that I have gained from my hunting experience......

First and foremost, please remember that an animals sense of smell is up to 20 times greater than our own and that the simple fact that you touched the box, you've covered it in the most disgusting of scents, human scents. As one article puts it, to animals we stink! Another indicates the usage of ammonia to deter fox bats for example.

There's a ton of reports on the web about scents and such, but the basis seems to be that if you use unscented items, then all's well. For the most part. Truth be known, as I said before, if you touch it, unless you are wearing rubber gloves, you've left a scent that the animals can find. In the campsites we've put together, whenever an animal comes through it while we are away hunting, the only things that get gone through are the food items. I've never seen or had an animal paw through a box of cleaning supplies or my dirty clothes bag, but, heaven forbid if you forget to put the food out of reach!

Take a look at the sites below, if you want to. They contain some information about scents and animals.

http://www.countrylinemagazine.com/keith.html

http://www.freddiebearsports.com/products.asp?showcase=37&showstyle=2

http://www.tracker-outdoors.com/coverscents.htm

http://www3.telus.net/martinmh/dor_013.html

http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/011402_smells.jhtml

Like I said, just wanted to share some knowledge with my peers and friends and I hope that this comes across the right way.

Steve

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I think Steve has a good point about human scent and that of our
chemicals.
I hadn't thought of it till he brought it up, but now, thinking
back, I remember the incredible preparations my husband and father-
in-law made to go trapping. Wash clothes in just water and then
store in pine needles for a month. Let the traps rust, boil them in
a walnut-shell dye, then wax (never oil!) them. Skip soap and
deodorant and alway wear plain cotton gloves (from the pine needle
storage)
On the other hand - if folks say the chemically cleaned boxes were
eaten, then they were. Period.
(The real question is WHY those idiot animals like the taste of
cleaners.)
So if one wants to experiment with cleaners in the woods, sure, go
ahead, but to be polite we should do it in the maintenance of our
OWN boxes only, and use water on found boxes.
Fair 'nuff?

Aud

What is recommended for cleaning stamp pads?
First-time-boxers-in-NY
----- Original Message -----
From: cadenza74
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:39 AM
Subject: [LbNA] Cleaning stamps (was ink pad sizes)


Can I post a reminder that baby wipes and most stamp cleaners
are HIGHLY sented and attract animals. Now it may be nice to
clean someone's stamp for them, but it isn't so nice if the
chipmunks and bears have dragged it off to have for lunch. I
hope nobody is using commercial cleaning products on my
boxes. I think it contributes to the MIA counts.

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "sandymess" <
sandymess@y...> wrote:
>
> AS a long time rubber stamper, I use baby wipes. They are
easy to
> carry and do an excellent job. They do not tend ot dry out the
> stamps. Purple Iris



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