JPhil
Huh?
I have a motley collection of shop rags---old t-shirts, old towels & scraps of bedsheets, old genuine shop rags, etc. (I do keep them in closed metal containers, labeled "clean" & "dirty".)
But washing the dirty ones has always been a problem. I don't have a professional shop service of course. In the past, I have used a 5-gallon bucket with lots of detergent and a piece of plastic pipe with a hose connection and holes drilled up and down the sides and I soak & slosh & rinse & wash & pour it out in the alley, an all day affair---but that's a pain in the ass. I typically just take the particularly soaked filthy ones and put them in the trash. For someone else to deal with. And of course I will not put them in my household clotheswasher, nor will I do that to a laundromat anymore (I admit, I have in the past. I've been a bad bad boy).
I've even thought about buying a used clotheswasher to put in or more realistically outside the garage and run with the garden hose & extension cord, but I don't want to take up the space for such an infrequently used appliance (put flower pots on it? Shit and then I gotta water the flowers..) and besides it would freeze and burst in the winter here. And where would I drain it to anyway? Not in my yard--I got pears & apples & roses & shit... plus dog & kitties & squirrels & for more shit (!)
Any ideas?
But washing the dirty ones has always been a problem. I don't have a professional shop service of course. In the past, I have used a 5-gallon bucket with lots of detergent and a piece of plastic pipe with a hose connection and holes drilled up and down the sides and I soak & slosh & rinse & wash & pour it out in the alley, an all day affair---but that's a pain in the ass. I typically just take the particularly soaked filthy ones and put them in the trash. For someone else to deal with. And of course I will not put them in my household clotheswasher, nor will I do that to a laundromat anymore (I admit, I have in the past. I've been a bad bad boy).
I've even thought about buying a used clotheswasher to put in or more realistically outside the garage and run with the garden hose & extension cord, but I don't want to take up the space for such an infrequently used appliance (put flower pots on it? Shit and then I gotta water the flowers..) and besides it would freeze and burst in the winter here. And where would I drain it to anyway? Not in my yard--I got pears & apples & roses & shit... plus dog & kitties & squirrels & for more shit (!)
Any ideas?