Getting oil from bicycle chain off car seat?

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JayADee

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#2211996 6-Apr-2019 22:56

I use simple green to clean my bike chain, it's a degreaser... never heard of sard, must try to remember that.

danepak

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#2212000 6-Apr-2019 23:13

Hahaha!!! Gold comment. And yes, about time for a vacuum. Poor neglected car.

Oblivian

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#2212040 6-Apr-2019 23:54

Always sard in the laundry (Didn't realise theres also a spray version now) for tricky cheese(couPIZZAgh)/oil/grease or sweat stains and unavoidable dirty collars that fancy dress shirts seem to thrive on

Beavis

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#2212043 7-Apr-2019 00:19

We had our cat go thru a neighbours garage and get the underside of her body covered in used engine oil. She then came in thru the cat flap and spread it on the carpets and 2 beds. The only thing that worked was the cleaner that comes with the Rug Doctor that you hire from Countdown or Mitre 10. Everything else “sort of took most of it out.” It was a real life saver. Cat cost $500 at the vets...

robjg63

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#2212123 7-Apr-2019 08:32

Sard is brilliant stuff. Its been around your years.
So many years in fact that when I started work as a computer operator around 1981, it was the only thing that could get printer ribbon ink off my white business shirts!

Every laundry should have a bar. It can usually get tomato pasta sauce mark's off white fabric!

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JayADee

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#2212188 7-Apr-2019 11:32

I a man going to get me a bar of that. Where do you buy it?

I just remembered I also used simple green on the light grey couch to get the dog smear spot off it ( you know, where the dog constantly rubs up leaving a black, icky smear? Worked well on there. I also use it on walks, same reason. Also clean the entire bathroom with it every week.

Oblivian

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#2212197 7-Apr-2019 11:49

JayADee: I a man going to get me a bar of that. Where do you buy it?

Most supermarket laundry section

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JayADee

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#2212271 7-Apr-2019 12:43

Oblivian:
JayADee: I a man going to get me a bar of that. Where do you buy it?

Most supermarket laundry section

Thanks.
Previous post was meant to say 'I am' and 'walls' sigh.

geoffwnz

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#2212576 8-Apr-2019 09:08

I think Sard might be the "new" Napisan that our parents all used to soak everything in.

De-Solv-It (citrus based) will also remove pretty much any stain that I've come across so far. Mitre10 has it. Presumably Bunnings etc will also. It will dissolve the tar based sound deadening in cars quite easily and when I soaked my workshop overalls in it for a night, followed by a soak in Napisan then a wash, they came up better than commercially cleaned overalls.

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trig42

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#2212583 8-Apr-2019 09:18

De-Solv-It is great for labels on sauce bottles (when you want to reuse them). I'm not sure how it would go on fabrics, given it is pretty much an oil itself.

Smells great though.

geoffwnz

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#2212658 8-Apr-2019 09:37

trig42:

De-Solv-It is great for labels on sauce bottles (when you want to reuse them). I'm not sure how it would go on fabrics, given it is pretty much an oil itself.

Smells great though.

Seems fine on the many fabrics I've applied it to. But you really want to give it a good wash afterwards.

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