What stain remover do I need?

[jack707]

Last week I was changing the motor oil in my truck and my hat rolled off my head into spilled oil on the garage floor. I washed it still smells soaked it in oxi clean what else can I use to get the smell out?.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What kind of a hat is it? Is it the one in your Avatar; a $500 Stetson or maybe a John Deere baseball cap? Have you tried soaking it in that stuff in your jug? Just kidding. If the hat is something like a baseball cap, I would try some Acetone. Acetone is a good solvent; but it is pretty flammable. If the hat can be chunked into the washing machine, you might try squirting it with "Shout it out" and toss it in. That's what I do with my baseball caps. If it was my Aussie slouch hat, I would probably take it to the cleaners.

 

[jack707]

It's a baseball cap

 

[SimS]

Get one of those "cap frames" and throw it in the dishwasher a few times. Check this link for an example.
How to Clean Baseball Hats with a Dishwasher: 6 Steps

SimS

 

[jack707]

I don't have a dishwasher I'l buy some SHOUT

 

[dickfoster]

I don't have a dishwasher I'l buy some SHOUT

Is it worth all that fuss for a ball cap? Something with sentiment attached?
I got a gear lube soaked pair of jeans clean after several wash cycles. Gear lube stinks a whole lot worse than engine oil because of the sulphur compounds. Of course I threw them in a bucket and soaked them and rinsed out a few times before the wife would even let me put them in the washing machine. Women are kinda funny like that.

 

[jack707]

It my union hat bought it this summer.

 

[Ford850]

I would get a bottle of Dawn dish soap, and apply it liberally, then rinse and repeat. Dish washing detergent is my go-to solution for grease and oil, and Dawn is the best.

 

[jack707]

 

[Gary51]

When my pants get hydraulic fluid or oil on them from a leaking tractor I rub Fast Orange hand cleaner on the spots and then soak in a bucket of soapy water before they go in the washing machine.

 

[CountryB]

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It's a working man's hat. It should be stained.:thumbsup:

 

[jack707]

It's a working man's hat. It should be stained.

It's camo I scrub it with dawn dishwasher and washed it again

 

[/pine]

To really clean it you have to expel the oil from the fibers...I would use a solution of very hot water, sudsy ammonia and Dawn detergent...keep saturating the oily areas and use a shop vac pressed tight to the hat to suck out the oil...keep adding solution from the opposite side...the reverse can be done with compressed air...

 

[1965]

Buy some GOJO hand cleaner at Walmart that they sell in the auto section to remove grease from your hands. I use it when I get grease on my good cloths and it removes it perfectly, just rub it into the material and let it soak in a couple hours and throw it in the wash machine and you will be good to go.

 

[jack707]

Thanks a lot I will try those

 

[rox]

Last week I was changing the motor oil in my truck and my hat rolled off my head into spilled oil on the garage floor. I washed it still smells soaked it in oxi clean what else can I use to get the smell out?.

Geeze I wished we lived closer. Running an olive mill producing olive oil naturally we have a lot of oil to remove. Oil is a bear to get out, and also to clean your milling equipment. We were so lucky, one day guy drives up in his car, he was hitting all the moulins (olive mills) walks in with a spray bottle and proceeds to spray and wipe our equipment. This cleaner just literally melts the oil. He left a one liter bottle and we used it and it sure was great. It comes highly concentrated, we need one part cleaner for 3 parts water. A 20 Liter tank is over 400 Euros, but we sucked it up and bought it because it is so GOOD. And for us it has to be approved to be used in food preparation, in 5 years we have bought 2 of them. It really cleans our equipment spotless. If we were closer I would mail you some.

Not mentioned in all these suggestions on what to use is a very important fact, you have to rub the fabric of the hat and rub back and forth. Remember the old fashioned washboards? They were a vast improvement over grabbing the dirty fabric in your two hands and rubbing. Use your fingers, put the fabric of the hat between your finger & thumb and rub. Best of luck to you, I hope you get a satified result.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Simple Green.

 

[cat fever]

Trust me on this, I have worked in an oil refinery for a long time. It won't come out, that hat is now a work hat. Buy a new one.

 

[brown40]

Concentrated liquid soap (Dawn, Palmolive etc.) Worked in dry with a fingernail brush, then slow-scrubbed with hot water and repeated can get the funk out, but once oil/grease sets in there's usually a spot left. I'll leave the spot saturated with straight soap and run it with the wash. If you can saturate it with soap before it penetrates the fibers you may get lucky. Once in a while you can't find the remnants, but when one stays it adds more character.

 

[Clay45]

Thow in the wash with work clothes. Just don't dry it in the dryer.