Best way to degrease a sling? I’ve tried Dawn soap and hot water... I’d like to try to keep it, but I can’t use it with amount of grease on this thing. We used it to remove some big castings out of one of machines. They were going to throw it away... so I grabbed it, thinking it would be easy. How harsh of cleaner can one use without it damaging the sling?
Dishwasher with a good dish detergent.... just make sure the wife is going to be gone for a while. Or use the neighbors.....
Enzyme pretreatment and heavy duty laundry detergent. Little to no heat for drying. Simple green and purple power are both great degreasers. I believe the best practice is to use them diluted. Somewhere in the 10-32:1 ratio for rubber, vinyls and nylons. We use a lot of nylon straps for lifting. Once they start to fray/wear (or you can no longer read the label) we get rid of them. It's just not worth taking a chance of dropping something expensive or risking injury, but for pulling logs or for tow straps, yeah we keep them around. I haven't noticed any problems with degradation from grease. A few of ours are really greasy from using them on the forklift. I'd be more worried if the straps were always wet. You can't see if the inside is rotted.
Yea, just want to use around the house... if I can save it, fine.... if I can’t then I’m not out much except time and cleaners. it’s soaking currently... might take it to the car wash this afternoon.. see what that does...
First thought when I read the title of the thread was, "how do you get that much grease on a gun sling?"
