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How do you get the grease out of your clothes?

  • 16-08-2012 9:26am
    #1
    Crow92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭


    I've had a spate of ruining jeans lately, mainly from grease/oil and in once case spots of spraypaint.

    How you you guys get rid of grease stains from your everyday clothes??


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  • #2
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Crow92 wrote: »
    How you you guys get rid of grease stains from your everyday clothes??
    Prevention is better than cure - trouser clips!

    I never wear 'everyday' clothes on the bike.


  • #3
    Crow92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Crow92


    It's not from riding, I have a terrible tendency to do mechanics in whatever i'm wearing and don't have a set of overalls...which leads to messy hands and sometimes oil stains on clothes.

    And I don't wear lycra on the bike bar padded shorts under jeans.


  • #4
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,370 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    U've just answered your own question.


  • #5
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    You can buy degreasers for that. Washing up liquid and warm water, handwashed, often works for me


  • #6
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I've left them soak in neat flash degreaser and then chuck it into the wash for a cold wash. Works sometimes. If it's dried in, forget it, it will only fade over time by washing it.


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  • #7
    Crow92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Crow92


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    U've just answered your own question.

    Ah I know I shouldn't and won't in the future but the fact of the matter is I have and I want to try get rid of the stains in one lot, have about 5 pairs of jeans to do.


  • #8
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,616 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    rub swarfega into it throw in washer, usually works

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #9
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Crow92 wrote: »
    It's not from riding, I have a terrible tendency to do mechanics in whatever i'm wearing and don't have a set of overalls...which leads to messy hands and sometimes oil stains on clothes.

    Do your mechanicing naked. Much easier to clean oil off skin...


  • #10
    Holyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Holyboy


    I use spray on vanish before washing but it doesnt really work on my jeans as they are very dirty all the time! My friend says he puts toothpaste on the stains and leaves it to dry, the pastey white type, ive never tried it though.


  • #11
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Dark jeans and a laid back attitude towards grease on them.
    Works for me mostly


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  • #12
    johnk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭johnk123


    Crow92 wrote: »
    How you you guys get rid of grease stains from your everyday clothes??


    Mammy..... :cool:


  • #13
    RV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭RV


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Do your mechanicing naked. Much easier to clean oil off skin...

    Just be careful not to get anything caught in the spokes


  • #14
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Salt and club soda might work.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnRJ9DF6pI


    (Also, I had some success with leaving talcum powder on the stain overnight, brushing off the powder and washing as usual, but that was when the stain was very recent.)


  • #15
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    Caught my new altura windbreaker in the cog with a nice 8 inch black grease stain. Well dried before I even spotted it. Tried detergent, soap, water and a light degreaser but the bet in stuff remained. Rememberd how my Fenwicks chain lube broke up and liquified the gunge on my chain almost instantly. Put a drop on each spot and rubbed in with light tooth brush for a few seconds and the wet cloth soak. Instantly spotless no fabric damage or discolouration. Synthetic chain lube as a cleaner, I wouldnt have guessed.


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