I got oil all over my mechanics gloves today. Is there a good way of washing them?

 

ERA Plus is excellent for removing oil, so is Dawn. Try one or the other, or a mixture and some warm water.

Also, ERA is the ONLY soap that will remove diesel smell from clothes without making the whole load smell like diesel. I drove a tanker for 6 years,, I know!!

 

Well, if you don't want to get hit in the head with a baseball bat, from your wife/girlfriend/Mom. . . . . .
Do NOT use the washing machine!!!!

Get a 5 gallon bucket (clean, of course) and put about a cup of LESTOIL and a good detergent in the bottom, and fill 2/3 full with cold water.
Drop the gloves in and stir with a paint-stir.

Let sit for a while.

Stir.

Empty bucket and rinse.

If there's still oil in/on the gloves. . . . repeat.

Let the gloves air dry, or place near a de-humidifier.

 

God, yes!! Let air dry!! Do NOT put in the dryer,,, unless your hands have tiny, little crumpled up fingers!! Because that's what your gloves will look like when you pull them back out!! lol!!

 

I had some yahoo break into our semi and for whatever reason, smeared the grease off of the fifth-wheel all over the gray velour seats!! Had to have been a kid!!

Anyways, I had some of that Quick-N-Bright that they used to sell on late night TV commercials, back before Billy Mayes,,, I figured it sure couldn't make it any worse, so I grabbed a hand full of the pink goo and smeared it around the grease, wiped it off with a dry cloth and it was all gone!! Just like in the commercials!! lol!! Amazing stuff!!!

I know that Quick-N-Bright would get your oil out, but not everyone is as obsessed with cleaning products like I am, so I doubt you have any lying around!!

I see it for sale in the "As Seen On TV" stores in the malls.

 

I know a lady who added gas to the washing machine. Thankfully she left the room because it blew open the washing machine and the door to the room.

 

Where can I get ERA or LESTOIL?

 

I just put the gloves on and get a handful (so to speak) of hand cleaner (goop, gojo, etc.) and work them into the gloves just as if I was cleaning bare hands. Then toss the gloves in the washer with whatever work clothes I'm washing. Works like a charm.

As has been stated, do not put them in the dryer - ever.

 

Era is just a laundry detergent, and a pretty good one. I have used a gallon bucket with Dawn to clean mine, I use them when I scrap a/c compressors, so they get pretty bad. Regular wrenching I tend to not use them as much.

 

Era is a laundry detergent, and should be available wherever you buy your laundry 'stuff'.

Lestoil comes in (about) a quart container, and is a liquid.
I've seen it at the local grocery store ("Giant Food") and also in hardware stores.
We have a hardware store near here, called "American Hardware".
They carry 'everything'. I jokingly said to the manager, one day, "If American Hardware doesn't have it, you don't need it."

The next time I went in there, they had shirts with THAT phrase silkscreened onto them!

As firstonraceday said, Then clean in a bucket. (Trust me on this. I cleaned a BUNCH of shop rags in a washing machine. . . . ONCE. I wound up buying a new washing machine. Literally!)

 

I've have really good luck cleaning mine with oxyclean.
Take a 5 gallon bucket fill it half way with hot water , then dump a container of oxclean in , stir it up with a broom handle and then add your gloves. Agitate with said broom handle again, then walk away and let them soak for a couple of hours or overnight.
Agitate again, take them out, rinse them off and let them dry ( no dryer, as said before) and they are as good as new.
Biggest issue is finding a place to dump the oil/water mix left in the bucket.

 

Very good point.

Rep points earned and sent.


My county's landfill has a (free) 'hazardous waste day', once a month.
If you make small 'loads', take the oil/water 'waste' to them and re-use the bucket.

Just a thought. . . .

 

Mine does too!! They take everything,,, batteries, waste oil, anything that would hurt the ground if thrown in the land fill.

 

Try simple green and a car wash. Just Clip them to the floor mat holders, douse with simple green, and spray with the pressure washer.

 

i take my greasy gloves with me when i go to town. then stop at the car wash and hang them on the floor mat racks,then power wash'm. keeps the wife happy that way