Subject: Re: PARTS CLEANING

From: [email-masked] (Mark Kinsler )
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 01:56:25 GMT

>To avoid this embarassment in the future, I recently bought
>a pack of un-colored shop towels from Trend Lines.   They
>are really terrible -- almost like cheesecloth.   NOT recommended.
>
>I wish I could find a source of GOOD shop towels, but without
>the color.

Obviously you have not been schooled in the proper machinist's technique, 
which is to wash them when she's not home.  Throw your coveralls in there 
while you're at it; if they come out pink she'll just laugh.    

I've been using the 50/$8.00 cheesecloth towels from Harbor Freight.  
They work pretty well, actually, and certainly beat the heck out of paper 
towels.  Made in Bengla Desh by Bengla Deshis.  
  
If you're being fancy and live in an industrialized area, though, you 
can get shop towels from the guys that supply uniforms to your local gas 
station guys.  

                           Mark Kinsler
                             whose father used old undershirts for shop 
                             towels.  Why don't I have any of those?

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Brooks)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:58:42 GMT

For those of us here on the left coast, OSH sells rags in bulk, or by the
cubic whatits.  When I run low on rags (and it's not time to retire a bunch
of clothing) I'll generally get a shopping bag full for about 10 bucks.  I
think that they charge about $1.59 a pound for mixed colors, and about
$1.89 a pound for white cloth.  The white's mostly cotton fabric, though
the colored stuff generally has a lot of cotton-poly blend.

The full bales cost a bunch-- I think that it's a cubic yard and about
$150 for the thing.  Haven't needed that many rags just yet.

BTW, I've had pink underwear, too.  *Never* wash a red Union suit with
whites if you value your dignity.  OTOH, never buy a union suit if you
value your dignity.

Pete Brooks