Removing kerosene & cutting fluid smell from work clothes?

[GSF]

It's no usually mandatory to get covered in it yourself either, has anyone shown you how to set it up or checked it since? It's not uncommon to get a wee splash on you but it shouldn't be enough to get coated in it.

The lathes themselves only spray a pretty minute amount of aerosolised mixture onto the workpiece, and they sit under extractor hoods. I get the shit on me when cleaning swarf off the machines (we're machining precious metals). So usually my hands get oily after cleaning down, then go and scrub them clean but I seem to always manage to wipe some on my work shirt that I wear over the top of everything. Repeat that a couple of times over a week and its pretty grubby.

[Ocean1]

The lathes themselves only spray a pretty minute amount of aerosolised mixture onto the workpiece, and they sit under extractor hoods. I get the shit on me when cleaning swarf off the machines (we're machining precious metals). So usually my hands get oily after cleaning down, then go and scrub them clean but I seem to always manage to wipe some on my work shirt that I wear over the top of everything. Repeat that a couple of times over a week and its pretty grubby.

OK, seems likely there's a solution though, talk to the boss about the dustcoat eh? And you definitely should be wearing gloves.

Are they threatening to offer you an apprenticeship or at least some training?

[Grumph]

Get a job at an accountant. Heaven forbid you should smell of manual labour when you get off work.

Ah, jeeze, that bloody ink is hell to remove....and these days you'd have to count money wearing rubber gloves....

[jasonu]

Get a job at an accountant. Heaven forbid you should smell of manual labour when you get off work.

Yeah and those Bucket guys are a bunch of cunts too.

[Kickaha]

Yeah and those Bucket guys are a bunch of cunts too.

They always have been

[The Reibz]

All my clothes smell like they have had half a cup of diesel added in as fabric softener. You can't get rid of the smell ever

[carburator]

The lathes themselves only spray a pretty minute amount of aerosolised mixture onto the workpiece, and they sit under extractor hoods. I get the shit on me when cleaning swarf off the machines (we're machining precious metals). So usually my hands get oily after cleaning down, then go and scrub them clean but I seem to always manage to wipe some on my work shirt that I wear over the top of everything. Repeat that a couple of times over a week and its pretty grubby.

ppe and disposal able gloves
and overalls or end up like me chemically fucked..

[Yow Ling]

Yeah and those Bucket guys are a bunch of cunts too.

She must be working in the Tiatanium dome company

[caspernz]

All my clothes smell like they have had half a cup of diesel added in as fabric softener. You can't get rid of the smell ever

Try Napisan (in a pretty pink container) on hot soak cycle.

[speights_bud]

ppe and disposal able gloves
and overalls or end up like me chemically fucked..

I couldn't agree more with this,

I do a lot of Spark eroding which involves a lot of "kerosene like fluid".

My advise is don't fuck around with Latex or Vinyl gloves, they often perish in a matter of seconds with a lot of chemicals. Use Nitrile gloves instead.

[Voltaire]

I miss proper work smells , all I get is toner cartridge and coffee.

[Grumph]

I miss proper work smells , all I get is toner cartridge and coffee.

Couple of drops of "R" on the heating element in the coffee machine....

[swarfie]

I just tell 'her in doors' to suck it up when she tells me to "go away, you smell like a workshop"
I have to admit to being pleased about not doing much spark eroding these days and the CNC is doors shut most of the time.
It's part of engineering/toolmaking and it's been my income for 38 years....get used to it

[speights_bud]

Couple of drops of "R" on the heating element in the coffee machine....

Or a few drops of Hoppes No9 gun oil, ooh baby....

[sidecar bob]

I just tell 'her in doors' to suck it up when she tells me to "go away, you smell like a workshop"
I have to admit to being pleased about not doing much spark eroding these days and the CNC is doors shut most of the time.
It's part of engineering/toolmaking and it's been my income for 38 years....get used to it

My wife smells like a dental surgery when she's fresh home from work, I find that quite confusing, & she says I smell like her father when I get home from work. Apparently girls like that.