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Boy oh boy! Lots of mineral spirit talk.

I used it to wipe away foreign matter away from my car. I didn't use gloves but next time I will. Plus the vapor was there but I was wiping outside so I didn't really smell it fully, I was wearing a cheap dust mask...no respirator.

So what shall I do with the "dirty" new microfiber cloth that I used to wipe down with mineral spirits? I guess I should re-use it just for that wipe down purpose and then throw it away? I couldn't really clean it...I used soap and water and it got off some black out of the yellow cloth, but still is the same.

- Mike





What you can do with your micro-fiber or even the real cloth rags is take a bucket, fill it with water and toss in some liquid dish soap. Sccccsh it around like the old days where they would wash their rags ( errm clothes ) alongside the river. Scrunge it up up, wring it out and then scoosh it around some more in the soapy bucket of water. Then when you have been able to release as much crap as possible from the cloth... rinse it off with your hose... and then wring out out like you are choking a chicken's neck ahhahha. Then hang it out to dry in the garage or anywhere where it will not fall down and land in the dirt. That is usually sufficient to get futher use out of the cloth once it dries out.

On one occassion I had about 30 cloth rags accumulated... and I was being lazy - - so I waited til they were all evaporated of their mineral spirits and tossed them in the wifey's washing machine hahhhaha. You would be surprised how many loads of wash after that 'experiment' ended up having a slight smell of mineral spirits on them... acckkk... the wifey figured out what I did. Don't do it.

But maybe if you had enough rags accumulated... you could take them to the local laundymat ( you know... that place where people who don't have washing machines go to pay some coins to wash and dry their stuff ). Afterall... you don't really care if your stink up the laundry loads of the other people who use THAT washing machine after you

Yeah yeah.. me bad...

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Last edited by Marq; 06/10/07 08:01 AM.