Removing kerosene & cutting fluid smell from work clothes?

[JimO]

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.

old mans wees?

[Voltaire]

I just tell 'her in doors' to suck it up when she tells me to "go away, you smell like a workshop"

In the words of a Famous Brewery: Yeah Right.

[nodrog:Me]

Try being a gynecologist.

[swarfie]

In the words of a Famous Brewery: Yeah Right.

At least I don't smell like toner

[St_Gabriel]

At the moment I'm working in the machine shop of a small factory and naturally, I get pretty well coated in cutting fluid from our machines. It's a mixture of oil and kero.
So each weekend I wash my jeans & work shirts in a hot wash just with regular laundry powder and some water softener. They still end up feeling and smelling slightly greasy afterwards though.

Anyone working in a similar environment know any tricks for getting that shit out better? I know they'll just get dirty again soon but it kinda sucks getting up on a Monday morning and putting on clothes that still smell and feel a bit grotty.

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

Dont know about the Kero per se but I used to work in the petroleum industry and continually got diesel onto the overalls which would remain and never come out. One of the guys mentioned using a cup of "Handy Andy" hard floor cleaner (no shit...) into the load of work clothes. Works wonders and completely removes the smell. It is the cloudy ammonia that does the trick so if you can find that in the cleaning aisle even better (and a lot cheaper)

[GSF]

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?

Yeah, I'm being trained up to the point where I'll be able to operate & maintain all our machines (started out on the various lathes, eventually move up to the faceting and milling machines).

I'll hit them up about Alsco supplied shirt or coat that will fit properly. I don't particularly mind using my own work shirts if there was a sneaky trick to getting this shit out of the fabric but I can't be arsed trying to get them clean anymore. Let the professional laundry people deal with it.

I had always been under the impression that wearing gloves while operating a lathe (or other machines) was a very bad idea. Would nitrile gloves tear, rather than pull your hand into belt/chuck/food processing blades etc?
OSH came through a few weeks back and didn't seem to raise any objections about me working in bare hands with oil/kero mixture. If I'm going to be using a machine for an extended period of time I wear a mask as well, given that there will be a bit of mist floating about.

[Ocean1]

Yeah, I'm being trained up to the point where I'll be able to operate & maintain all our machines (started out on the various lathes, eventually move up to the faceting and milling machines).

I'll hit them up about Alsco supplied shirt or coat that will fit properly. I don't particularly mind using my own work shirts if there was a sneaky trick to getting this shit out of the fabric but I can't be arsed trying to get them clean anymore. Let the professional laundry people deal with it.

I had always been under the impression that wearing gloves while operating a lathe (or other machines) was a very bad idea. Would nitrile gloves tear, rather than pull your hand into belt/chuck/food processing blades etc?
OSH came through a few weeks back and didn't seem to raise any objections about me working in bare hands with oil/kero mixture. If I'm going to be using a machine for an extended period of time I wear a mask as well, given that there will be a bit of mist floating about.

Gloves for cleaning swarf out of lathes. Leather ones. If the tool's set up right the swarf is chipped but you can't rule out the odd string and they're nasty. I once cut stainless strips on a planning machine with a high top rake carbide, 1/2" feed and maybe 2 thou deep. Made 8 ft curly razor blades, you could almost see through the edge. The guy cleaning up after me lost half of the skin off three fingers of his right hand.

Nitrile gloves if you're getting kerro/cutting oil on your hands by all means. Most people show no adverse reaction to them but some develop a sensitivity after a while and it can end careers. The trick is moderation, just the odd splash isn't likely to cause issues but prolonged or repeated exposure is worth avoiding.

[carburator]

Yeah, I'm being trained up to the point where I'll be able to operate & maintain all our machines (started out on the various lathes, eventually move up to the faceting and milling machines).

I'll hit them up about Alsco supplied shirt or coat that will fit properly. I don't particularly mind using my own work shirts if there was a sneaky trick to getting this shit out of the fabric but I can't be arsed trying to get them clean anymore. Let the professional laundry people deal with it.

I had always been under the impression that wearing gloves while operating a lathe (or other machines) was a very bad idea. Would nitrile gloves tear, rather than pull your hand into belt/chuck/food processing blades etc?
OSH came through a few weeks back and didn't seem to raise any objections about me working in bare hands with oil/kero mixture. If I'm going to be using a machine for an extended period of time I wear a mask as well, given that there will be a bit of mist floating about.

barrier cream..
never worn gloves with lathes or mills. you get sucked in period...and destocking of fingers is not pretty
you want a 3m face mask, with clean wipes and organic filters if its misting that bad.