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I worked as a mudlogger on oil rigs for a couple of years...a lot of it in the Southern North Sea, where you have to drill through thousands of feet of salt to reach gas bearing rocks. Because salt dissolves in water, they have to use diesel based "mud" (drilling fluid). Everything you took on the rig becomes impregnated with the smell of diesel, and the rig laundry just transfers the smell to bedclothes, towels, everything.
(I wonder if they still use diesel based mud?)
(I wonder if they still use diesel based mud?)
you'd have a big fight with OSPAR if you proposed OBM in this day and age.
no one else wondering what happened to thelittlesthobos mate ? - is he still waiting on that help 😀
A really long boil wash will shift it.
Source family haulage firm and washing fixing lorries from age 13. Dad+ uncle+ grandad+ great uncle all seni regularly soaked in diesel.
Hand was was in the dirty paraffin parts wash sink, clean paraffin sink final wash in swaefega and freezing water.
Dad fell of a lorry once and hit his leg on a sticky out handle that holds the tipper shut. He was saved from serious injury in the leg as he was wearing an oil skin, overalls, overalls, jeans, thermal long johns which all ripped but the second pair of thermals saved his skin.
I didn't go into the family firm, lucky as it went bust in my 20's
Soak it in cat's piss. That will mask the diesel smell and will never wash out.
whole milk.
Leave it to soak for a few days so it gets right into all the padding and nooks and crannies. Then Baking soda to fail to absorb the smell of deisel and milk so on a hot day your car will smell of cold deisel in the morning , then child sick in the afternnoon.
HTH
I thought Dr Diesel invented the Dr Diesel engine to burn coke powder on compression ignition?
Not the finest columbian , as the pence per mile would be prohibitive, but refined coal. Using cracked fosil oil came later.
If there is anything to take from this thread it's.
Get a small Gerry Can.
Washing up liquid, though that causes a foam issue. Hot wash will work, as well but you could ugger the bedding. Carpet shampoo works too. We used to clean our staffs PPE ourselves, but it kept knackering the washing machine, so it all goes off to be cleaned professionally, also we need to keep the flame retardant properties.
Years of working with farm and forestry machinery, the answer is generally fire.
For more valuable kit like chainsaw trousers, several washes in a washing machine that isn't yours will avoid the fumes overcoming you in a machines cab.
Op had a Gerry can't apparently
That deserves to be acknowledged! 👍🏼👏🏻
Proper Jerry cans are wonderful examples of perfect industrial design, so good, by comparison to the truly crap containers issued to the British Army, that they were highly prized plunder from wrecked German vehicles. They were eventually copied and issued to British and American military.
Original German version…
British version…
The handle system is brilliant, specifically designed so that two cans side by side can be picked up together by the outside handles.
Great things for putting water in, there are specific versions for just that purpose.
Getting back on topic, you could spray with cadaverine or putricine, which would definitely cover the smell of diesel, but then you’d have to napalm the area to get rid of the smell of rotting flesh…
🥴🤢🤮☣️ 😷
If I was in your shoes I'd try a few things.
Heavier hydrocarbons have higher viscosities and transition temperatures. A hot wash might be more effective. However hot your machine will go. It might destroy the bed but it is set for the bin anyway?
The other thing is that your average detergent (particularly the bio types) are designed to remove the type of chemistry that you would expect to find on dirty clothes, not normally diesel. I'd try a generous dose of pure soap.
You could also try using washing up liquid (as that is more designed to remove fat and oil (similar properties). This can be entertaining in a washing machine as it creates a lot of bubbles. An alternative would be to do this in a big container if you have it. Again, the hotter the water the better (which would make it tricky by hand.
In any case I would look to run a hot cycle on your washing machine (or self cleaning cycle) to try and remove any diesel. It might attack any seals.
Hot wash with dish soap is what worked for me trying to remove tetra and hexadecane from a shirt. Also works for cleaning equipment of higher molecular weight petrochemical oils and similar fatty acid derived materials.
several washes in a washing machine that isn't yours
There is a petrol station near me with an outdoor launderette on the forecourt. There is a working harbour nearby and many farms surrounding it. I can only imagine the filth that gets dumped in them - they must be minging.
Time is the best bet... I managed to get diesel on my shoes a few years ago. I thought it was the end of the shoes until I just left them out in the sun for a couple of days and the diesel evaporated off with the smell
I reckon a good soak in Screwfix degreaser would be a good bet.
It's very good at breaking down oil and grease so diesel should also thin out. It's dilutable so potentially you could start with a 25% solutions and then try stronger ones if low success.
Hot water will also help the process.
It's cheaper than some other brands , not overly smelly like jizer , readily available in over 900 location and is generally a stocked item.