Womanly 'clothes washing' & gearbox fluid question

[colnerov]

 I'm thinking the good woman is none to keen to help you get rid of the smell, because you're unlikely to attract many females walking around in that haze.

[Louise2cv]

Before you sling it you could try and soak it in a bucket of v concentrated "vanish oxy" stuff over night. I thought it was a gimmick but I have had some surprising results with it. Find it only works with soaking though, adding to the wash is not so great.

 

As an aside, I quite like the smell in a funny sort of way. Prob not when I can't escape it though.

[Station]

BTW I'm not still walking round wearing the clothes, they reek

[KruJoe]

 

This is professional grade powder degreaser normally used in commercial kitchens, but you should find it at the Asian supermarket or cash'n'carry. I do some serious laundry as part of my business, and a couple scoops of this in the hottest wash is the best thing for shifting greasy stains. Localised pre-soaking might help.

*COLOURS MAY FADE*

 

A few scoops dissolved in hot water, and sucked from a barrel with the pressure washer is flipping brill for engine-bay degreasing. 

[strangeangel]

I'd sling them personally. Aside from the smell, it can't be good having your skin in contact with it either

 

WHS. The smell of used gearbox is one of the most rancid known to man & you'll never get rid of it.

[Luckythirteen]

Speaking as a woman who knows how to use a washing machine...

 

Tried boil washing? Overalls should be up to it - my old Dickies ones were fine after having farm/garage crud boiled out of them on a few occasions. Can't guarantee the same for t-shirts, hoodies etc (esp wooly jumpers), but jeans are generally okay with it.

Or how about carbolic? Really old school solution - in fact it's one of Gran_13s go-to solutions - but it's petrochemical based iirc. So, if you use the Galenic era medicine principle of the Doctrine of Signatures (or 'fight fire with fire' if you like), a petrochemical ought to shift a petrochemical.

Buy some carbolic soap, and grate some in with your detergent of choice.

 

I probably shouldn't share this link, cos it's all kinds of horror: it came up when I searched 'buy carbolic acid'. Holy shit Batman... at least if nothing else, you gents could 'persuade' your partner that kitchen time was preferable to happy time. Shocking that...

[Bobthebeard]

Bin them and buy new overalls? If you have had them for more than two years then you have surely put on weight and they are most likely too tight for you now anyway*.

 

* Or is that just me?

[KruJoe]

 'buy carbolic acid'. Holy shit Batman... ..

 

Jeez* L13, that is horriffic! Those people have power, they're for real. Sick.

I read to post number 3 and started gipping.

[Richard]

That forum has to be a wind up, although I bet there are some regular posters who think it's for real.

[KruJoe]

We are lucky that most of us don't have to share a continent with them, and they don't have passports.

 

I vote we get John_F signed up there for a bit of sport, and post the results here.

[Luckythirteen]

I didn't care to read much further myself. I've a feeling it's keyboard warriorism rather than an outright windup, but then...Republican Party and some of their candidates...you never know.

 

There was another nasty solution I was trying to remember: my brain keeps saying it was phosphoric acid based, but I'm not sure that's right. It is commercial washing stuff, and can be got hold of if you know where to ask. It's spectacularly good, gets kitchen whites white!

[LC Torana]

I suppose you could wash with washing soda in the hottest water you can get, but I wouldn't.

 

If you succeed in getting the smell out of your overalls, I would be concerned that you would then stink out your washing machine.

 

I'd say the game is not worth the candle.