Clean hands.....

[feelergaugephil]

So, you fix your GS and when you finish you go to wash your hands and you ran out of fast orange or any other hand cleaner.........
Use soap or degergant and mix with 2 SPOONFULS OF SUGAR, rub it in real well and wash your hands off with water............
Done deal!

 

[Steve]

Have never tried the sugar, but we always have either Joy or Dawn dishwashing soap at the kitchen sink. That and a decent hand brush works well, too.


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[tkent02]

Palmolive and corn meal...

 

[Zooks]

Soap up hands and then just rub in the soil in the garden. Work the 'mud' sludge that you create into your hands and they will come up cleaner than ever (after you rinse it off). It's the fine silica in the soil that does the trick.

Womens beauty products contain minerals etc. I don't know why they don't just use garden soil - LOL .

 

[hampshirehog]

Womens beauty products contain minerals etc. I don't know why they don't just use garden soil - LOL .

Is that why women like mud wrestling???

 

[gsgeezer]

Great tip! First I have to wrestle the sugar bowl away from my spouse.

 

[spyug]

Dishsoap and a little salt or sand ( sandblaster).

As the man said its the silica or pumice that does the scouring.

Good tip Phil.

Cheers,
Spyug.

 

[Zooks]

Dishsoap and a little salt ............

I did this years ago after busting my knuckles fitting head gaskets to a V8. YEEEEEOOOWWWW!!!!!!

I'll never do that again. DOH!!

 

[spyug]

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention don't use salt if you've got cuts on the mitts

Thanks for the save Zooks.

Cheers,
Spyug

 

[PAULYBOY]

i've found that brake fluid does wonders, then wash with soap. might also try some cooking oil first, then soap.

 

[850_GS]

I like the original GoJo brand hand cleaner myself, but even better is not getting your hands in that condition in the first place, so you could buy some latex or nitrile gloves to keep your pinkies clean from the getgo.

 

[spyug]

Using gloves is a good plan and I do put them on sometime. One draw back I find (especialy in warm months) is that my hands sweat a lot which is uncomfortable after a while. Also depending on what you are working with those gloves can melt. Cleaning with acetone is one wayI know to melt them off your digits.

I'm really from the old school ( what an over used phrase) and always worked with naked hands so its hard to get the same feel with gloves on. I have several pairs of mechanics gloves which aren't as sweat inducing as the vinyl or nitriles but you still lose the feel so I usually forget to wear them too.

Orange cleaner with a scrub brush usually gets most of the grunge out from under the nails if not out of the cracks in the skin.

Cheers,
Spyug

 

[saddlewarmer]

No hand cleaner around? Try using something from the laundry cleaning area. I use spray n wash to clean my hands when greasy. spray on, rub real good, use soap and water to finish. also seems to work good when no soap or water available, just gotta have a towel of some type to wipe hands on.

 

[fordman]

The best of the best!!!

The best of the best!!!

I have used this method for years one of the best motorhead tips my father ever gave me.
Try rubbing in some plain old motor oil or automotive tranny fluid it also works fairly well..

The salt thing will work unless your gonna cry about a little sting, but the salt melts quicker than sugar does for some reason...

So, you fix your GS and when you finish you go to wash your hands and you ran out of fast orange or any other hand cleaner.........
Use soap or degergant and mix with 2 SPOONFULS OF SUGAR, rub it in real well and wash your hands off with water............
Done deal!

 

[Jethro]

I just keep a jar of orange hand cleaner in the shop to get my hands clean enough to enter the house, then dish soap with a hand/fingernail brush.

 

[Billyboy]

I just keep a jar of orange hand cleaner in the shop to get my hands clean enough to enter the house, then dish soap with a hand/fingernail brush.

Same here, except it's sonlight soap and sugar.

 

[BassCliff]

Preventative maintenance

Preventative maintenance

Hi,

When I know I'm going to get really dirty, I just spray some Simple Green on my hands, rub it in and let it dry before I get started. It makes clean-up a lot easier.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[79-GS550-L]

I've heard shampoo will cut grease like nothing else, but I haven't had a chance to try it since I still have a ton of gojo. I think I heard it's also good for getting oil stains off the garage floor, or maybe that was laundry detergent. They probably both work.