Googled last night and this thread came up. Can 100% confirm that soaking jeans and cotton top in hot sink with a generous helping of soda crystals overnight followed by a normal 60c wash has removed a large amount of grease.
Get yourself in the shed, and dig out a bottle of turpentine substitute or white spirits…rub it over the grease stain, and watch it disappear, then put item in the wash to lose the whiff of the turps.
Okay, I have trawled the old and new forums and found a few bits of advice on getting the Fifth wheel Graphite grease out of cloths and off boots…
I have tried the Fairy Liquid, and washing powder… and just been Shopping for some Brake and Clutch Cleaner, which is spose to be the ‘Wonder Stuff’ for removing it…
But alas, none has seemed to work…
Has anybody else got any ideas as to getting the stuff off??.. I got covered in the stuff today… LOL
Impossible to remove from clothes even using Fairey Liquid and Vanish or any other ‘wonder’ treatment so just bin em!
Baby wipes are pretty good for getting it off your hands in a hurry if you cant get a ‘proper’ wash!
I cant remember how many pairs of jeans or trousers I’ve ruined like this
When you can buy jeans in Tesco for less than £4 a pair why worry, almost cheaper to throw away than it is to wash them!
But having said that, I had half a dozen pairs of jeans that had been consigned to the DIY/Gardening wardrobe as they were unwashable, but a new Bosch automatic washing machine removed every grease mark after only 2 washes …
Martin:
When you can buy jeans in Tesco for less than £4 a pair why worry, almost cheaper to throw away than it is to wash them!
But having said that, I had half a dozen pairs of jeans that had been consigned to the DIY/Gardening wardrobe as they were unwashable, but a new Bosch automatic washing machine removed every grease mark after only 2 washes …
I get tar on my clothes (err not off the brush lol),white spirts or swarfega will remove it a treat.
The tar comes off of them cast iron man hole covers I hump about
Oh tar is a lot worse then grease m8 belive me
Martin:
When you can buy jeans in Tesco for less than £4 a pair why worry, almost cheaper to throw away than it is to wash them!
But having said that, I had half a dozen pairs of jeans that had been consigned to the DIY/Gardening wardrobe as they were unwashable, but a new Bosch automatic washing machine removed every grease mark after only 2 washes …