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I was amused by that long discussion on here about how to clean shop rags. Can't figure why anyone would go to all that trouble to reuse a shop rag. There is always old worn out clothes around my house that keep my shop rag drawer packed full. I never run out. My favorite shop rags is old worn out T shirts and underware. They make great rags. Besides that the underware can make for a little fun in the shop when you are fortunate enough to have some help on rare occassions and they ask if you have a rag to clean their hands. Just throw them a pair of your old worn out underware and look at the expression on their faces. Their reactions are always fun. My wife always throws her worn out underware away before I can get it to the shop. Now that I think about it, that is probably a good thing.
 
Ive used worn out clothes for rags for over 50 years.Old socks that hole out are opened up with scissors,they make a nice sized rag.Throw them in the wood stove when they get nasty.
 
If you are throwing them in a wood stove in you shop I am jealous. I wanted to put a wood stove in my shop, but I couldn't find an insurance company that would cover the building with one in it. I was told that since I store vehicles in it they wouldn't cover it with an indoor wood burner. I do have burn barrels outside for the really greasy rags though.
 
I know a guy that USED to have an auto paint shop with a wood burning heater in it. Key word is in CAPS. Not pretty!
 
When I was a kid I hung around an old guys body shop. He had an old coal furnace with the jacket removed. You could see the flames thru the cracks. I think back and wonder why it never blew the place up when he was spraying paint. Sometimes it got pretty foggy in there, but it never lit. Big tree fell on the shop and finished it off, along with several cars inside and out.

Paul
 
All kinds of crazy things in small spray shops. Unprotected lights,
open fan motors with the brush holders sparking away, normal
light switches. Even just the car with the battery in it. Opening the
door makes a little spark at the switch for teh dome light.
 
A cousin of the wife used to have a key to my shop. He asked about painting a car in there in the winter. Not even his car.
I said no.
Came in one day and smelled laquer fumes as soon as I turned in the drive.
He was sitting in my shop with some guys i did not even want in my shop (known thieves)and the wood heater just a roaring.
Grinned and said well it did not blow up.

I ran them all out and changed the locks.
 
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