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Old 04-12-13, 01:13 PM
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Degreaser for clothes !

You get flat, you remove the wheel, fix the flat, curse around a little because it is cold, windy, raining, fingers are frozen, but you still are proud you didn't call wife to pick you up, and you move on.

You go home, and find that your right hand sleeve touched the chain all over and has grease stains I know regular detergent ain't gonna work ! Do you guys just live with the stain, or is there any products .. ? Can I use chain degreaser on clothes ? ..
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Concentrated dish soap works for most fabrics and some synthetics. Pre-apply 12-24 hours before washing.
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This'll do it.

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Yup, dish soap works great! I use Dawn original(blue stuff) as some of the foo fooey smelling ones don't cut the grease as well. It gets literally everything out(sometimes dye too, so rub a small spot with it, let it set of 15 minutes, and rinse. If the color stays, you should be fine. I just rub the dawn in when sorting my laundry to do it and by the time I get to the garmet, a few hours has elapsed and that seems to be enough for me.
Don't dilute it.
Rub it in.
Let it set.
Wash in warmest setting the material can stand.
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It seems like everything I own has a grease stain on it. I've got so many bikes in the garage, it's hard to get in and out, without accidentally bumping into something greasy. I feel like nothing works great to get out the stains.
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Follow the instructions on the back for stain lifting.
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Originally Posted by Spoonrobot
Concentrated dish soap works for most fabrics and some synthetics. Pre-apply 12-24 hours before washing.
^^^^Dawn will take grease out of anything, including ducks! It's also good for washing your bike.


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Simple Green. Dilute 1:1 with water. Test for color fastness in inconspicuous area. Pour solution on grease spot. Gently rub. Machine wash warm water. Repeat in necessary.
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Shout. Comes in a spray bottle. Works incredibly well. Even gets out old stains. I've used it to get some old jerseys back to their original color.
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Originally Posted by Nakedbabytoes
Yup, dish soap works great! I use Dawn original(blue stuff) as some of the foo fooey smelling ones don't cut the grease as well. It gets literally everything out(sometimes dye too, so rub a small spot with it, let it set of 15 minutes, and rinse. If the color stays, you should be fine. I just rub the dawn in when sorting my laundry to do it and by the time I get to the garmet, a few hours has elapsed and that seems to be enough for me.
Don't dilute it.
Rub it in.
Let it set.
Wash in warmest setting the material can stand.
yeah, I actually had a friend say that if you mix original blue Dawn 2-1 with hydrogen peroxide it will get just about any stain out.
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Automotive brake cleaner will remove dirty grease stains. You might want to do it outside, the smell disagrees with some people.
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The Cascade dishwasher pods with dawn do wonders for clothes.
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This'll do it.


This was great. How could you not buy it after that performance.
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This'll do it.

I had a girl come to my door selling this stuff. they are good salesman because they dont let you say no. but I did. They are trained to have that sense of humor. The woman that came to my place was JUST like that and said some of the same stuff. It looked like good stuff but I just didn't want to buy it. They travel from state to state with a team of 10 people and go door to door.
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but on topic, I recently through a riding jacket (neon yellow) out in my garage without any thought as to where it was going to land. turned out that it landed on my chain and got grease ALL OVER it. Here is the bad thing...I had JUST sold it on slowtwitch and was getting ready to send it out the next day!!! I thought it was ruined and gonna have to return the guys money. I sprayed it with zap citrus orange cleaner and let it soak in for 30 min. came back and used a toothbrush on it, put it through the wash and it was much better but still there so I soaked again, toothbrush and washed....boom completely gone and looked brand new again. saved me big time! I use that zap citrus degreaser on everything, it is amazing! You can get it at home depot. I bought a gallon jug of it 8 years ago (Its concentrated) and I still have 1/2 gallon left.
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