Topic: Shop Laundry

[flybox1]

MAYBE now the wife wont force me go to the laundromat with my shop rags 
http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/mechanics-laundry-detergent?gclid=CKzK-e3_kMsCFcYlgQodZfcOYA

[Buckskin Bandit]

Perfect! Fast Orange laundry soap! 

[RevDoc]

MAYBE now the wife wont force me go to the laundromat with my shop rags 
http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/mechanics-laundry-detergent?gclid=CKzK-e3_kMsCFcYlgQodZfcOYA

Uummm, Flybox, have you been running bikes with the shop door closed so you're breathing a lot of fumes again? 

[flybox1]

MAYBE now the wife wont force me go to the laundromat with my shop rags 
http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/mechanics-laundry-detergent?gclid=CKzK-e3_kMsCFcYlgQodZfcOYA

Uummm, Flybox, have you been running bikes with the shop door closed so you're breathing a lot of fumes again? 

I love the smell of kerosene in the morning. . . 

[Stev-o]

MAYBE now the wife wont force me go to the laundromat with my shop rags 
http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/mechanics-laundry-detergent?gclid=CKzK-e3_kMsCFcYlgQodZfcOYA

Uummm, Flybox, have you been running bikes with the shop door closed so you're breathing a lot of fumes again? 

I love the smell of kerosene in the morning. . . 

I love the smell of two stroke in the morning!

Seriously now, do you wash your shop rags?  Once mine get absolutely filthy dirty, I just toss em.

[70CB750]

MAYBE now the wife wont force me go to the laundromat with my shop rags 
http://www.permatex.com/products/product-categories/mechanics-laundry-detergent?gclid=CKzK-e3_kMsCFcYlgQodZfcOYA

Uummm, Flybox, have you been running bikes with the shop door closed so you're breathing a lot of fumes again? 

I love the smell of kerosene in the morning. . . 

I love the smell of two stroke in the morning!

Seriously now, do you wash your shop rags?  Once mine get absolutely filthy dirty, I just toss em.

Same here.  I seem to have never ending supply of old rags.

[eigenvector]

I would never ruin my washing machine by trying to wash a shop rag.  To say nothing of the chance that the dryer would turn into a raging inferno.

[ken65]

Had a heap of flannelette shirts that I cut into rags. Anyway after using them to polish and whatever else i did with them
I popped them into the wash thinking well done Mr  recycle bloke.  When a freshly powder coated frame got all dusty
I wiped it down with a freshly laundered rag and  it scratched the sh$t out of it. Never again .

[Mantree]

Perfect might actually get my cloths clean

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[chewbacca5000]

That is funny stuff.  I think it would work, but the grease would probably stick the wall of the washing machine.  That is what happens in my Ultra sonic cleaner.

[flybox1]

That is funny stuff.  I think it would work, but the grease would probably stick the wall of the washing machine.  That is what happens in my Ultra sonic cleaner.

Exactly why the boss sends me to the laundromat, not to mention the lingering chem smell.
The product claims to prevent these remnants.  I dont know that I dare to try 

[chewbacca5000]

That is funny stuff.  I think it would work, but the grease would probably stick the wall of the washing machine.  That is what happens in my Ultra sonic cleaner.

Exactly why the boss sends me to the laundromat, not to mention the lingering chem smell.
The product claims to prevent these remnants.  I dont know that I dare to try 

Women's noses are much more sensitive then men's so if you want to roll the dice be my guess.  Please, be sure to bequeath me your sohc4 collection.  See you in Honda heaven.  ha,ha,ha.

On a side note you can get 1 gallon of that Fast Orange at Harbor Freight for a reasonable price.  Has the hand pump too.

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

New rags are cheaper than divorce. You will NEVER convince her to let you do this in HER washing machine. Just start using her towels. She wants new ones anyway.

[flybox1]

That is funny stuff.  I think it would work, but the grease would probably stick the wall of the washing machine.  That is what happens in my Ultra sonic cleaner.

Exactly why the boss sends me to the laundromat, not to mention the lingering chem smell.
The product claims to prevent these remnants.  I dont know that I dare to try 

Women's noses are much more sensitive then men's so if you want to roll the dice be my guess.  Please, be sure to bequeath me your sohc4 collection.  See you in Honda heaven.  ha,ha,ha.

HAHA...yeah. Truth.  I planned my cases washings and paint bakings around her long work weekends

[Stev-o]

New rags are cheaper than divorce.

Trust Jerry on ANYTHING that is related to divorce. 
He is the forum expert on this!

[seanbarney41]

I have never been married, and even I would not wash my shop rags in my own washing machine...come to think of it, I surprise myself that I even own a washing machine...

I wonder how my work's uniform service does it.  It is not unheard of for me and co-workers to take the occasional and unexpected hydraulic oil full body shower and uniform service has always got them clean.

[eigenvector]

They probably dry clean them.

They use something like toluene or something like that to dry clean clothes - would handle oily rags just fine.

[scottly]

Lots of the laundromats near CA oilfields had machines dedicated for work clothes. If you put your crude oil soaked work clothes in a regular machine they got really pissed off.

There was a guy in Phoenix a few years ago that decided the best way to get oil out of clothes was to wash them in gasoline, in his washing machine. I don't remember if he died in the explosion, but he was certainly a candidate for the Darwin Awards.

[70CB750]

In military we would dump our coveralls into open tank and empty a specific type of fire extinguisher on top of it.  It would clean the grease and stain completely off - it just needed little agitation - and after that the laundry would go through regular wash.

Of course it was forbiden but it was very effective.  Than one day the boys in the shop done it again - only to find out that the extinguisher liguid is now dyed bright red to prevent soldiers from using it for cleaning.  We ended up with bloody - pun intended - red set of overalls.