On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:19:40 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:27:48 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:08:48 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:38:19 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:44:17 -0500, Ignoramus21254
wrote:

Some of my clothes, not surprisingly, have dark spots from used oil
and carbon. I am not sure if it is the oil itself, or the carbon works
as a dye, but they do NOT clean up with regular clothes detergent. I
want to clean them out properly.

Would anyone have a suggestion as to what to do with these dark stains.

Thanks

Goop (smells good) or Permatex (smells awful) hand cleaner will take
care of the oil. Make sure the clothes are dry first and don't wet
them for a half-hour or so after rubbing it in.

'Don't know about the carbon. That's just rubbed into the fabric. If
washing in regular detergent won't do it, I don't know what will --
unless it comes out with the oil.
Drt cleaning. Use caeb/choke cleaner - some brakr cleaners work too.
If the "dry cleaning" doesn't work the only way to get rid of the
stains is a scissors.

Don't you want to caution him to test either of those solvents on a
hidden area of the clothes first?

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I've used both on cotton and polyester blends with no problem. Safe
on any natural fiber -

That's good to hear. I haven't looked at the MSDSes on those but I
heard someone call B12 "acetone" the other day and I didn't buy it.
Surprisingly enough, a lawnmower engine will run on half diesel and
half gasoline. I stumbled across this on djutube the other day and
watched it out of curiosity. http://tinyurl.com/ycdale54

Let's see: Brakleen non-chlorinated has Acetone, Heptane, Methanol,
and Toluene. Berryman's B-12 carb cleaner has 2-Butoxyethylene, mixed
Xylenes, and n-Propanol. They just don't sound "clothes friendly",
y'know?

I'm still extremely dissatisfied with "green" cleaners. They simply
don't work at all. What they did to mineral spirits in order to lower
the VOCs is just disgusting. "Low odor" and "odorless" work fine, but
the tree-hugger approved stuff is just miserable. I had to go buy
some real mineral spirits after being unable to use the green **** to
clean some oil off painted areas before painting. It also failed
miserably when I brought it home and tried to clean oil paint off
artist's brushes.


I might not want to use it on acetate/

Might not need the scissors for that large hole.

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