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Odd question, but I noticed that the clothes that I wear while machining sometimes eventually get a stinky stale smell like a harbor freight store a day or two after coming out of the washing machine. I replaced my shop apron last summer because of the smell. And I tossed all of my blue shop pocket Tshirts for the same reason last summer. My wife would repedadly wash them, but the next day they would smell like walking into a Harbor freight when I take them out of the drawer. The other day my old shop pants had the same problem. My wife washed them several times and switched from armor hammer non scented detergent to heavy duty wisk yesterday so at least it would have a deodorant smell to cover the HF type of smell. She uses a HE machine and we do keep it fresh inside (that is a whole different story.)
My neighbor used to run a machine shop and told me that his clothes always smelled funky no matter what his wife did, and he only wore them in the shop so the smell didn't matter. He said the smell comes from the cutting oils. I use sunoco way oil, dark sulpher cutting oil, just started using anchor lube, and WD40 as a cutting fluid on aluminum. I used to use tap magic, but that stuff stunk nasty while I was using it. The HF smell I'm Describing is similar.
Do any of you guys have this problem, and if so, how do you deal with it. Is there anything to permanently get rid of the smell.
Thanks,
Chris
My neighbor used to run a machine shop and told me that his clothes always smelled funky no matter what his wife did, and he only wore them in the shop so the smell didn't matter. He said the smell comes from the cutting oils. I use sunoco way oil, dark sulpher cutting oil, just started using anchor lube, and WD40 as a cutting fluid on aluminum. I used to use tap magic, but that stuff stunk nasty while I was using it. The HF smell I'm Describing is similar.
Do any of you guys have this problem, and if so, how do you deal with it. Is there anything to permanently get rid of the smell.
Thanks,
Chris
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