Petrol, does it damage clothing?

[Jeffds1360]

Had a bit of a 'woopsie' with a pipe full of petrol and it spilt all over my trews! Wife eventually chased me out into the garden ( 3 degrees) and I had to strip off and, after emptying my pockets,  I hung them on the line.

She says she is allergic to petrol smell....ha, I sneaked my smelly hankie in :)....does it rot cotton?, do the fumes cause any problems?

I'm rambling . Bear with me.... I meant bare !

[Colin Lindsay]

Don't dry cleaners use something similar? 

[rogerguzzi]

Hello All

              The answer is yes if you put a match to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roger

[Unkel Kunkel]

Petrol and clothes seems OK.After drying  usual washing machine  cycle 

I have seen the shoe soles of some one who stood in petrol for a while go a bit soft and “ melt “ a bit.

Now EP gear oil is a very different matter v.difficult to wash out.

Stinks. Never liked it since I had a Ford 105e gearbox discharge its contents all over my head  when removing it .Omitted to drain  it first.

 I could still smell it a a week , and many washes , later.

Don’t know what it did to my scalp , but  fifty two years later I’m  not bald - perhaps there’s a business opportunity here.

[johny]

Cor wish I had tried that before it all went😭

[PeteH]

1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:

Don't dry cleaners use something similar? 

We used CTC, from the old time Fire extinguishers to clean oil etc: off our uniforms.?. I understand they stopped using, as a fire extinguishing material. When they found out the fumes it gave of when used on a fire where Toxic and/or Carcinogenic? (or so dad told me!).

Wikepedia:- Carbon tetrachloride extinguishers were withdrawn in the 1950s because of the chemical's toxicity – exposure to high concentrations damages the nervous system and internal organs. Additionally, when used on a fire, the heat can convert CTC to phosgene gas,^[10] formerly used as a chemical weapon.

Pete

[Pete Lewis]

ep90 on the hair do is less harmful than  brylcreem in the gearbox  if that helps 

pete

[PeteH]

Ref; Oil and Hair loss. In my case I assume it worked the other way round?. Being somewhat "Monk Like" in that department. I attribute it to the amount of time spent having (hot) Marine lubricating oil liberally deposited over ones person whilst working in the crankcase, rectifying the faults which occur in elderly, and not so old, Marine Engines.

Pete

[Pete Lewis]

oil be seeing you 

pete

[johny]

Ive always put it down to high levels of testosterone and its a price worth paying😍

[Unkel Kunkel]

The EP oil lingering pong  was partly explained to me by someone who took a student vacation  job in a midlands oil company lab.He described a smelly and unpleasant part of the process of making EP  oil involved the “rendering” of large quantities of poultry fat ( long unfit for human consumption) that had “ gone off” …

[Colin Lindsay]

That's what the EP in EP90 stands for... Evil-smelling Poultry 90....

[Pete Lewis]

puts the squawk in the diff

Pete