At 03:08 PM 4/15/2009, Don Hundt wrote: >The grease on your (throwaway) clothes, the grease on the garage floor, the >grease in your hair, the itchy nose that left a streak of grease on your >face, the grease on the workbench, the greasy rags and old boots to dispose >of, grabbing that one tool out of your box weeks later that you forgot to >clean all the grease off .............All this if you are >careful.................. Hey, it's not *that* bad. Unless my memory is completely shot (a possibility, I admit) a pair of nitrile gloves, a couple of quart-size baggies with rubber bands to slip over the exposed joints, some of those nice blue Scot shop towels, a can or two of Brakleen and a big coffee can with some mineral spirits will see you right. I've never ruined a set of (shop) clothes doing it, or covered the neighborhood in grease,or gotten filthy beyond the usual filthiness attendant on working with waterboxers. :-) d
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