Heavy Diesel Mechanics nightmare Greasy clothes destroying the wife’s washing machine at home

[@dominicnolan6975]

Doing ironwork in a steel mill. Had to crawl through grease and never thought I'd be able to use my clothes again. Thank you!!!

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

So it worked for you I take it

[@muhammadshafeyjaved4183]

How much ingredients quantity do you guys use for a 5 gallon bucket?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Well depends on how dirty I have used 2 liter coke and go from there

[@mitchrosario1529]

Tired of looking like I rolled around on the fifth wheel 🤣🤣🤣

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Feel your pain

[@trumpisaconfirmedcuck5840]

Long post but works. Trust me! I am not a professional mechanic nor do I work in the mining industry. I'm just a girl into hot rodding. Had my share of nasty stuff like dirty rags with road grime from the undercarriage, mineral spirts, gasoline, motor oil... and the big daddy of them all: GEAR OIL. That stuff reeks! Dish soap is what kills the washing machine pump. Learned that lesson the hard way. It doesn't ruin the washer itself though. Some youtube videos, $20 for a new pump, and a couple hours later and I was back in business. As a plus I also repaired my torn washing machine seal (that was much harder than the pump). Appliances are usually pretty easy to fix and I'm not expert. Just everything I've had break I was able to DIY with youtube. So here are my tricks: Stuff that reeks from long distance... ie volatiles like gasoline and mineral spirts: any rags or clothes with those on them leave them outside and let them "off gas" for a few days. Dirty stuff that stinks at close range. Depends how stinky and how dirty. Optional step (can skip this step if not too bad) for this for really stinky/dirty stuff: soak it in a bucket with a lot of dish soap and water. Hand wash it. With disposable gloves :p After this step, make sure you really hose the stuff off (or put in a bucket with just water) and try to get all the dish soap out. Wash your clothes in the machine machine. Add some soda (coke, diet dr. pepper, doesn't matter) and simple green (very little!) to the wash. After washing, clean the drum with simple green and paper towels. Then before you wash your normal clothes, put some clean rags (old clothes) in the wash. Make sure the washing machine is mostly full, but not totally stuffed. Add more simple green and soda. What this will do is clean the drum with the rags scrubbing the drum and each other for you...

[@marksmith8953]

thanks for the tip. things get so dirty in the wind turbine industry

[@JonDingle]

Great tip, l am going to try that!

[@tonycoleman3531]

Thanks for the tip I will try it bro

[@tawny218]

Thank you! I could never get the stains out of my husbands clothes so he does it himself. There is a lot of screening involved.

[@alleynanci]

Thank you!

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Am surprised at the response I have gotten on this , if you read thru the messages there are 2 good alternatives method too.

[@dakotadavis5462]

Mining and steel industry here we use bluewolf or purple power added with gain it works miracles best option is to have a uniform company do it when they trade out cloths

[@Junior_Jackson]

In your washer. Before adding clothes. Pick the setting that washes longer. Probably “whites”. Let the water start to fill. Hot water best for extra dirty. Add 1/3 cup of borax, 1/3 cup baking soda. 4 second squirt of dawn dish liquid. (Real stinky. Add 1/2 cup Pine sol.) Add clothes. 1/2 cup of vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser. Close the lid and wait. Works great.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Hmmm maybe I’ll give it a go

[@roscomcfarland204]

Dude I needed this

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Hope it helps, we use to handle this oil that we called honey oil it was the most tacky stuff I hv ever seen and this was the only way I could get rid of this

[@calebseverson318]

I worked on the rig floor often, oil based mud and pipe dope are terrible to get off. I will have to try the coca cola, I always douse dawn and laundry detergent, but now I use spray and wash too. Any tips for boots?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depends on what type of material on the boots

[@loosh__sii]

also at what parts do you use the fluids ? at what ratio?✌🌊great video worth being placed on youtube

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depends on how am washing them and how heavy and what type of oil or grease am up against. Heavy gear oil is the toughest

[@peterwagner7592]

What is the pipe? Are you blowing air into the bucket to create the agitation? Do you use the baking soda/oxiclean along with the coke/dawn or seperate?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Yes the pipe is blowing air into the water causing agitation effect, i mix up stuff I use but coke alone has great effect

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Bucket has always worked!! Never thought about coke... But Dawn is good.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

That’s an oil field secret

[@a.humphries8678]

@@sonofmontezuma3732 dawn or coke?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

@@a.humphries8678 depends on what your dealing with? Heavy dirt light oil Dawn, heavy oil and grease , wipe it down get rid of much of the grease as possible then was with cola

[@loosh__sii]

how toxic does the water become and i wonder if a possible of filtering the water could be maybe even using a bigger sized gallon drum and maybe something like a fuel pump to filter out and redirect and reflow the water a few times,?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

I did test it with ph strip and mines were not toxic

[@CarlosRamirez-yw3hy]

Ok after washing the clothes and obviously ringing them out, can I just stick them in the dryer? Also I’ve heard waterproofing clothes is a thing?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

It depends on your spouse, I do that and now. Water proofing is something that varies depending what you do, if F.R. Clothes can be affect by something like that

[@armandohierro45]

How much time do you leave it in the buckect?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depends on stain , but overnight for severe to 1 hour

[@rockbandwii6]

Work in the railroad industry, i just took my stuff to the laundromat

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

I did that for a few years but after a while I was a hassle , stuff lost , they close before I could get to them & etc. So I had to go back to washing at home

[@a.humphries8678]

I'm here because my husband constantly has diesel on his clothes. I've been washing them in washer and dryer, now it smells like I dumped diesel in them.... Is there a way to wash or get the smell out of the appliances? All of our clothes now smell like diesel.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Been there , best answer is not popular (by the way )1st was his stuff in his own dedicated washer or wash at laundry Matt, I have had mixed results chemicals tend to affect different fabrics differently, but I wash my stuff if Súper bad I will spray tub with purple power cleaner and wipe it down then run the machine with dawn and no clothes and re-examine seems once you get that diesel smell in the machine it’s hard to get rid of due to different type and designs of machines you might not be able to get rid of hence my 1st option

[@trumpisaconfirmedcuck5840]

Step 1: paper towels and simple green or purple power and dish soap. Clean the drum(s) with them. Make sure after you've cleaned the drum that you get 99% of the dish soap out because it will kill the washing machine pump otherwise. Step 2: Put a bunch of old clothes you don't care about with simple green (very little) and soda in the wash. Make sure the washing machine is full but not stuffed. The old clothes with "scrub" the drum for you. Trust me I've put gear oil soaked rags (stinks even worse than diesel) in the wash and I thought I would never get it out. If you do it well the old clothes won't even smell. I even clean my oil drain pan for oil changes the same as step 1. And I've gotten gear oil in it and it doesn't stink. Simple green and dish soap. Surprisingly another thing you can do... though it is usually an unnecessary mess is clean it with less stinky oil. Whenever I change the gear oil in my cars, afterwards I change the engine oil and transmission fluid. Oil dissolves with other oils and while motor oil and transmission fluid don't smell great, they smell a ton better than gear oil or diesel fuel.

[@jasontodd9302]

They make washing machine cleaner pods 🤷🏽‍♂️ I’m a diesel mechanic and after I wash my uniforms I will either wash the washing machine with 2 bleach pods or 1 affresh washing machine pod.

[@src4409]

I would try these and add baking soda. It will absorb smells. Leave it on a soak cycle.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depending on what’s on them sometimes baking soda will flare up (reaction) so put a little at first

[@Pontiacdreams]

How much of each ingredient in a 5 gallon bucket?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depends on soak time and what your working on? Heavy oil ( 80/140) ? Grease? In typical a washer it’s 2litter coke and regular amount of soap

[@janeleezenger5429]

Trying it now

[@inasiebert497]

What are the measurements for all the ingredients?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Depends on size of load 5 pairs of jeans Súper dirty 1 1/2 liters coke and 3 oz of soap and repeat , but it f your feeling crazy 6 pairs of jeans all 3 liters and 4 oz of soap use dawn that works best

[@demiilockes]

@@sonofmontezuma3732 can you use generic coke?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

@@demiilockes I don’t know , I always used coke , I think some fellas tried cola soda ( cheaper version of coke) but not the same results

[@rachellecalabrese4447]

The coke seems to help because it’s acidic so since I don’t have coke at home I will try my citric acid or vinegar

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Vinger has a strong odor , citruis will work

[@barka2818]

I fucked up the washing machine is it any way to clean it?

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

In which way? Might be to late to save, how old is it ?

[@barka2818]

@@sonofmontezuma3732 its 1 year Old 😂

[@armandohierro45]

Nevermind. Just heard how long. Lol!

[@thelittlelenora]

My man is an auto mechanic, who somehow gets his clothes greasier and dirtier than any other mechanic I’ve ever seen. I usually treat his clothes with degreaser before washing by hand in the bath tub using with dawn, naphtha, borax, arm & hammer, tide, etc and I’ve probably tried everything except for coke. I’ve never heard of using coke before but id be happy to give it a shot! So, he’s been pretty rough to me this week so I told him he could wash his own clothes. He put them straight in the washer added soap and walked off. I pressed cancel and stopped the load. I said to him that he would need to, at the very minimum, please spray them with degreaser before using the washer. He responded by called me names and re-starting his load. I turned off the washer again and told him if he didn’t want to he should take his clothes to the laundromat (or just be a little bit nice to me cause then I’d wash them). He replied by insulting me. I did my best to stay calm and I explained to him all the work I normally do in washing his clothes. I told him that basically the washer is made for washing the clothes of office worker normie types not of sexy greasy hot-rod men who get as dirty as he does on the daily. He told me I’m stupid and I don’t know what I’m talking about etc. He said he might just wait till I fall asleep and then use the washer, which as it turns out is in fact what he did.

[@Badger1776]

True love

[@CupCakeWookieTiff]

Thankfully I didn't get that response , but both my husband and I have been at our wits end because we KNOW not the normal stuff will work to get this sort of crud out. My husband works with grease, silicone mixing agents, etc. I'm like , let me bring out the Ole wash board and I have carpal tunnel so the immense pain in scrubbing there and with a brush were atrocious! I know Coca-Cola is like some wicked wicked thing invented that has multiple purposes, so I'm in this for sure!. It can even take away erosion from things where batteries met their demise!

[@farelimm]

Bruh 😐

[@TMBfan]

Ma'am this is a Wendy's

[@Redneck_4wheelers]

Women you cant ever be right with em they tell you to do your own laudry and you do ane then they tell you no

[@jasontodd9302]

Y’all know there’s a product called Affresh Washing machine cleaner right????

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Did not know that but I well check it out

[@jasontodd9302]

@@sonofmontezuma3732 really? I looked into a product like that before I even started washing my mechanic uniforms at home because I didn’t want to hear my wife’s mouth 😂 it works really good though. And our washer has a “clean washer” mode.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

If I find it I will do a follow up video

[@rickiadams3971]

@@sonofmontezuma3732 4th gen mechanics auto/diesel/jet. daughter/wife/mother here. store bought tablets and clean cycle is fine but can also clean with pinesol or bleach with regular cycle. run empty cycle with hot water. 1-2 cup of either. if steel tub use pinesol. if porcelain tub can use either pinesol or bleach. top loader: while machine is filling take old rag dip in water solution and wash. tub and agitator. front loader: fill detergent drawers with cleaner. take rag with cleaner and make sure to wash the door gasket and drum with rag. after cycle open door/lid to air dry. if you have an agitator remove and wash out and put back in.

[@sonofmontezuma3732]

Well when work In oil field you hv to make due

[@jakeowens1770]

what is the ratio , dont talk so much