After machining down some steel wheels for a track, I managed to cover my hands and clothes in some wonderful axle grease while installing them. I've already washed my hands with gojo cleaner twice.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Razor wrote:
I figured some of you with some experience under the hood of a vehicle might know the best way to get axle grease off your hands and clothes.After machining down some steel wheels for a track, I managed to cover my hands and clothes in some wonderful axle grease while installing them. I've already washed my hands with gojo cleaner twice.
Not a whole lot you can do about the hands except wait a few days. Wash the clothes by themselves a couple times, emphasis on by themselves, then run the washer empty a couple times and it should keep your other clothes from getting dirty.
--Clothes, try soakeing them, you really want to aviod running them through a dryer till the stain is gone, usally once you heat it up, the stain is set. Peter fucked around with this message on 05-29-2008 at 07:46 AM.
Also, for the nasty, nasty stuck on crap, I've been known to use paint thinner. But you have to make sure to rinse it off immediately, wash your hands, and apply some sort of lotion to keep your skin from cracking and falling off.
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Azakias had this to say about Punky Brewster:
industrial strength orange smelling handwipes that feel like sandpaper,
Kimtowels are the brand name
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Also, for the nasty, nasty stuck on crap, I've been known to use paint thinner. But you have to make sure to rinse it off immediately, wash your hands, and apply some sort of lotion to keep your skin from cracking and falling off.
Regular Thinner isn't that bad, or are you useing like aircraft stripper? That shit is some real bad Ju-Ju. I have seen that Like eat off Like Imron and other 2 part paints with ease.
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We were all impressed when Kermitov 2 wrote:
Would strongly advise against putting paint thinner or anything else like that on your hands.
It will just dry out your skin extremely fast, but it's not that harmful. You can use it, but just put some lotion on them later.
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Peter painfully thought these words up:
Regular Thinner isn't that bad, or are you useing like aircraft stripper? That shit is some real bad Ju-Ju. I have seen that Like eat off Like Imron and other 2 part paints with ease.
Paint thinner. When we need to strip paint from the planes, we usually have to get by with paint thinner, sand paper, and lots of elbow grease.
Granted, it IS some pretty beefy stuff. A lot more caustic than the stuff you can buy commercial. Thats why I said I wash hands and apply lotion IMMEDIATELY afterwards.
And its about the only thing that will get the RTV sealant off. Even so, I've had to go for a while, sometimes days or weeks, with my hands a sickly grey color because I didnt want to crack my hands up so bad.
But the towelette thingies will usually scour most of that grease off.
