How do you wash your dirty mechanics clothes
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Joined: Jan 2015
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From: Dont Colorado Wyoming
Year: 1990
Model: Cherokee (XJ)
Engine: 4.0
i get the 3 pack of white t-shirts from walmart for $5, and recycle my old ratty jeans that i cant wear to work anymore. If its gonna be real bad, i have a pair of coveralls. Every once in a while, NAPA sells coveralls for like $10. my local store has a clothe rack with them. Alsco rejects. i usually just soak em in water a hit em with a hose and air dry. they stay in the garage.
Caracticus Potts The Mod
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Hainsville, NJ
Model: Grand Cherokee
I have a old washing machine in my garage, I wash them two times then bring into the house to dry in the machine when wifey not looking...
LOL other wise hanging on coat hangers in the garage till they dry
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From: usa
Year: 2000
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 6 cylinder
[QUOTE=CurrySoSpicy;3407403Huh, so you're the guy ruining the machines at the laundromat?.......[/QUOTE]
Slightly off topic but that reminds me of one of my adventures.
Speaking of ruining laundromats, i had a big big load of clothes to wash when i moved to California decades ago to take a job with a defense contractor.
So visited the local coin laundromat. Loaded up 4 or 5 washing machines.
Now i wanted to get this done fast, so i stuffed as much clothes as possible into the driers.
Must of overloaded one of them beyond capacity cause it started smoking!
The smoke got thicker and thicker; women screaming, running out, kids crying, oh the humanity!
In an adrenaline-like panic, i pulled my clothes out of that smoking drier and out of the other one.
Good thing too and just in the nick of time. That dam drier start spewing flames.
OH OH! Now it looked like the ceiling above that there drier is starting to smoke too!
Next thing i knew i heard sirens. Yep the fire dept. has arrived! Police cars too!
A big crowd gathered now watching the action as smoke billowed out of the laundromat door.
Seen a policeman starting to question people.
Decided to get the hell out of there and fast! Feets don't fails me now!
Slightly off topic but that reminds me of one of my adventures.
Speaking of ruining laundromats, i had a big big load of clothes to wash when i moved to California decades ago to take a job with a defense contractor.
So visited the local coin laundromat. Loaded up 4 or 5 washing machines.
Now i wanted to get this done fast, so i stuffed as much clothes as possible into the driers.
Must of overloaded one of them beyond capacity cause it started smoking!
The smoke got thicker and thicker; women screaming, running out, kids crying, oh the humanity!
In an adrenaline-like panic, i pulled my clothes out of that smoking drier and out of the other one.
Good thing too and just in the nick of time. That dam drier start spewing flames.
OH OH! Now it looked like the ceiling above that there drier is starting to smoke too!
Next thing i knew i heard sirens. Yep the fire dept. has arrived! Police cars too!
A big crowd gathered now watching the action as smoke billowed out of the laundromat door.
Seen a policeman starting to question people.
Decided to get the hell out of there and fast! Feets don't fails me now!



