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Some years ago there was a thread about the removal of hydraulic oil from clothes.
I don't remember the answers, and can't find the thread.
Seems washing with Coca-Cola was one option, but I'm not sure. Seems there were a few ideas.
Dang, I THOUGHT I was paying attention!
Any help out there?


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Pretty much a daily bath for me, mix any liquid laundry soap with enough water so it will spray in a squirt bottle, pre treat the coveralls or clothing for a few hours, launder normally on 'heavy soil' cycle. Modern wash machine that skimps on water sucks.


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Dawn dish soap and simple grren are what we use.


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Originally Posted by high_country_
Dawn dish soap and simple grren are what we use.


This works at my house also....

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I'm the one who ask in the 1st thread. Pre treat with Dawn or purple cleaner. Get a tub or bucket big enough to hold items and agitate. mix Pine sol, Oxy clean and Dawn. soak clothes several hours stirring with boat paddle or something every couple of hours. After several hours I had oil rings floating on the surface and dipped them off.my stuff soaked about 36 hours. All came out.

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Originally Posted by flintlocke
Pretty much a daily bath for me, mix any liquid laundry soap with enough water so it will spray in a squirt bottle, pre treat the coveralls or clothing for a few hours, launder normally on 'heavy soil' cycle. Modern wash machine that skimps on water sucks.


If your old washer quits, HAVE IT FIXED NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT COSTS! The new washing machines, all of them, do not get clothes clean. To get detergent out you have to run another whole cycle w/o adding detergent.


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Borchardt, I see you have been there, done that. Three weeks into the new machine, wife says, "what would it take to get the old Maytag going again?" "Oh a new water solenoid, maybe a flex hose on the water pump". Order came down, "Do it". The new water saver is behind the shop, re purposed to store old chainsaw parts that are too good to throw away.


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Originally Posted by flintlocke
Borchardt, I see you have been there, done that. Three weeks into the new machine, wife says, "what would it take to get the old Maytag going again?" "Oh a new water solenoid, maybe a flex hose on the water pump". Order came down, "Do it". The new water saver is behind the shop, re purposed to store old chainsaw parts that are too good to throw away.


Good move! I wish I had saved my old machine, I did not know about the "new" BS.


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Simple green and dish soap in a tub. Soak and stir occasionally


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