- 1. Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: "Forest Majors" <forest.majors@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:48:25 -0400
- Is there a solvent or cleaning agent that should be used on oily shop rags before they are washed? Previously I have just thrown slightly oily rags into the washer - but I am reticent to put saturate
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00105.html (7,278 bytes)
- 2. Re: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:06:35 -0700
- When I was a teenager working on my first motorcycle, I put some oily rags in the washing machine. They got clean, but the inside of the washing machine was covered in oily goo. Mom wasn't too happy
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00106.html (8,106 bytes)
- 3. Re: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: James Babcock <jbabcoc@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi Forest. I wouldn't know about the impact to the septic system, but beware of the oily mess left inside of the washer if you should put in saturated rags. If you really need to keep an oil-soaked p
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00107.html (8,379 bytes)
- 4. Re: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: LSAPEX@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:18:38 EDT
- A friend of mine used to get his rags dry cleaned. He had a deal with the cleaners, they would get done in the last batch before the fluid was changed. << Is there a solvent or cleaning agent that sh
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00109.html (7,144 bytes)
- 5. Re: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Budde" <super_racenut@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:57:46
- If they are that bad spend a buck and bring a large load of them to the local coin laundry and leave them the mess. That might be the evil way of doing it, but I'm an evil guy somtimes. Steve Budde m
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00110.html (7,342 bytes)
- 6. RE: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:16:06 -0700
- My wife suggested the same thing. My problem with that is the harm it does to the next poor schmuck who uses that washer to wash his/her clothes. I was once a 'starving student', and if I'd ruined a
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00111.html (7,605 bytes)
- 7. Re: Washing Oily Rags (score: 1)
- Author: Derek Harling <derek.lola@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:26:33 -0400
- OK here's my method - FREQUENTLY drop used rags into soak bucket containing strong soapy water mine's right next to the bench - leave to soak until you feel like washing them. Never let more than 6 o
- /html/shop-talk/2001-04/msg00113.html (7,920 bytes)
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