What is the most effective way to get bike grease out of pants?
03-12-12, 07:19 PM
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What is the most effective way to get bike grease out of pants?
What is the most effective way to get bike grease or oil out of pants?
03-12-12, 07:21 PM
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Wear bibs or bike shorts. Problem solved.
Edit: Honestly, I have no idea.
Edit: Honestly, I have no idea.
03-12-12, 07:29 PM
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I've used orange degreaser and a brush to gently scrub it out. I'm not sure how that will work on all clothes, but it did work on a pair of khakis that I rubbed against the chain. I've also had some success with a stain pretreat on smaller areas.
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Impossible. I've ruined too many pairs of pants to count.
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Goop is what we always used for grease on clothes growing up on the farm. Rub it into the stain, let it sit for awhile, wash in the washing machine by itself. Repeat until gone. Don't dry in the dryer until it's all the way out. Seemed to work pretty well. Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but that's what I would use. https://goophandcleaner.com/
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^ Yep. Also I fixed it for you
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Goop is what we always used for grease on clothes growing up on the farm. Rub it into the stain, let it sit for awhile, wash in the washing machine by itself. Repeat until gone. Don't dry in the dryer until it's all the way out. Seemed to work pretty well. Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but that's what I would use. https://goophandcleaner.com/
I use Goop for oil/grease stains, and it works well.
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Dawn dishwashing liqued and a tooth brush.
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forget it. make them into work clothes.
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i took drastic precautionary measures years ago. i dont own a single pair of white underwear, socks, pants or shoes. i have two blue dress shirts and everything else i own is either dark brown, dark green, black, gray or dark blue. khaki pants foreshame.............
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Murphy's Oil Soap.
Pour it on the stain and let it sit. If it's a heavy amount of grease, you might want to scrub it a bit with a toothbrush. Then run through your washing machine.
Pour it on the stain and let it sit. If it's a heavy amount of grease, you might want to scrub it a bit with a toothbrush. Then run through your washing machine.
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In general, I have found cooking oil works very well to break up the oil, then wash out the bike oil & cooking oil with regular dish soap. Haven't tried it on fabric, but that how I wash my hands. This also works very well when cleaning up oil based paint.
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If we're going to pretend that this isn't a shill post, can we at least get rid of the OP's sig line/advertisement?
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It does sound as if he is trying to see if anyone has a viable solution before he starts on the ad campaign.
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What is bike grease? If your chain is dirty clean it. Shouldnt be anything transferable on your cahin or chain rings. Shout works great on just about any stain by the way.
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