Shameless not an AIBU HELP!!!

[Tryingtostayyoung]

I know this isn't an AIBU but I need answers and I've put elsewhere and not heard anything back...

I've just bought an electric radiator from a friend of a friend, turned it on whilst there to check it worked, I've come home and plugged it in to show my DM, within 60seconds I could smell like a rotten egg smell, turned it off straight away. Any ideas what this is? Maybe just because it's not been on properly for a really long time?! Really frustrated. 😡

Heaters can get dusty, and it takes a while to burn off before they stop smelling

Not sure that would be like rotten egg though - are you sure that's what it's like?

Only time I have had that was when there was a problem with the socket and electrics not the appliance. I would get an electrician round.

Could you try it in a different socket?

I've got electric heaters out of the loft and they've let off a smell, for a while.

I'd put it somewhere it won't do much damage, if it shorts and leave it on.

There's a 'burning off' stage, for most old things, I think.

Actually thinking about it when it was a problem with our electrics it was more a fishy smell.

Thanks everyone, I actually now do think it's because it's not been turned on for a while and only been used a few times because I just re read the instructions and it says that it will let off an odour when you first use it for a while and I know that it has only been used two or three times for a very short period.