cleaning shop rags

I just got a new/used washing machine and I got it so I can wash that pile of shop rags.I'm hoping someone has the special concoction for cleaning them.I've washed some with her dish soap,laundry soap and some bleach but not even one bubble any help would awsome.

 

I just bring mine back to work and take clean ones home.

 

Oxi clean.

 

I must be rich. I just go to BJ's and buy a couple of the packages of them when I need more. I tried the washing/cleaning thing and now I'm at that point in my life where I would rather pay for them.

 

Try Tide and washing soda [Arm&Hammer}

 

i just throw the uni-first guy 20 bucks on the side and he just so happens leave an extra sack of white virgin rags in the back room!

 

If'n you can't work out a deal per autobodyed and a couple of the udders, soak em (the rags, not the udders) in a bucket of uncut Simple Green for a few hours then wash them in your ma-cheen using Less Toil.

 

Whatever you do do not use any kind of solvent on them!!!

When I was a kid, my father made this mistake. They were washed after the solvent bath, and then put into the gas dryer. The ensuing flame ball did not catch the house on fire. But it did scare the shit out of all of us, and put a 4' diameter hole in the ceiling of the laundry room. My mother was not to pleased with him that night.

Dad always threw away his old rags and bought new ones after that.

Damn, I totally forgot about that story until I opened this thread. Good times!

 

Throw em in the washer with your womens undies !! I can promise you that one thing for sure will take place !! Either every time she puts on her drawers she'll think of you or every time you use a shop rag to wipe off your face you'll think of her >>>>.

 

What ever you use for soap, let 'em soak just before the spin/drain cycle. Seems to work with my dirty shop clothes. If I was going to wash my old rags I woulda just brought them to the landromat to ruin somebody else's washer and drier!

 

yup!

 

I've got freinds and relatives giving me old bed sheets. I tear'em up into useable pieces. Once they get unuseably crusty I just throw'em away.

 

I just use shop rags for progressively dirtier wiping jobs until I have used them for an oil spill mop-up. Then I throw them in the garbage.

I am one cheap bastard, but after buying the washer, electricity, soap, water, and your time and effort to wash them I can't believe you're saving a whole lot.

 

Give up and steal new ones from work

 

late night laundermat, and simple green

 

Soak 'em in varsol and take a late night trip to the laundromat.... Works for oilfield clothes and red rags and saves the old lady from getting pissed at you for screwing up the machine.... Make sure it's varsol and not hydrochloric acid in that container though - that'll open the sinus cavity I guarantee !!!!! (not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything.....)

 

I go to the paint (house paint) supply store, and buy a box of painters rags. Crap load of rags shoved into a box. Specify white cotton they are the best.

 

borax

 

At the bowling alley we used to pour 2 cans of coke in with the rags and let them sit for 20-30 before starting the wash.
That was a lot of lane oil, but the old brunswick machines came up with a lot of plain old grease and grime too.

 

pre soak them in a 5 gallon bucket with some tide and oxyclean. safe way to store them after use and before you wash.

 

One part soap flakes ......ten parts gasoline.......put the rag in the end of the bottle ........ shake......... no wrong stuff! Don't do this Outside of Idaho

I don't do laundry

I open another bag imported (really imported) from Costco

 

Lestoil. Its at most grocery/retail stores. Works wonders !

 

My wife discovered this one day while doing the wash. She read the can of GOOP and threw all my old gungy jeans and T-shirts in the washer. Amazing! The T-shirts were not white again but it did remove alot of the old black oil stains. I couldn't believe the jeans though. Stains that had been there for years were either completely gone or faded substantially.

"GOOP" hand cleaner, follow the directions on the can. No smell if they make it the way they used to do it.

"GO-JO" works well but leaves that chemically smell.

 

I've got a stackable washer/dryer in the garage. I wash them in hot water with Wisk. Only once in a while have I had to do them twice to get them clean. If they are too bad, I just throw them out. Seemd to take 2 beers to wash, 3 to dry.

 

You gotta freak'n washing machine!!! It's really gonna piss me off if ya got a dryer too!! We ain't rich enuf to have any of that new-fangled shit....

 

I use old goodguys shirts for rags

 

Yup, makes ya wonder though don't it.

 

%%%%% Hey man check out that Red-Neck thread,something about a Leaf blower and new fangled shit >>>>.

 

Coke. I pour a can of Coke in with the laundry detergent and my shirts and jeans come clean. These are oil patch grease and grime as well. If they are real bad 2 cans. Don't know why it works but it does.
RMAC

 

I washed em at home. When My Ol Lady objected, I said "It's not like they have any more grease on em than my clothes do..."