Hardened gear oil on bed mat

What’s wrong with cleaning with brake clean?

 

Ur children will have no ear lobes

3rd eye in their forehead

13toes

 

Purple power worked for me

 

@Rock Lobster I went straight for the mineral spirits as they were handy, used a nylon bristle brush and then cleaned up with soap and water. Looks like all the hardened oil stains came off nicely. Hope the mineral spirits residue evaporates.

(It just started to rain as I finished up).

 

Risk of pitting the bed mat. Even though it's chemically resistant, the mat is still made of an organic compound, and prolonged exposure to certain organic solvents will scar it.

Plus as a lab dude who has worked with some of the chlorinated nasties in a previous life, I just plain don't like them.

 

Most excellent. Glad you got it clean.

 

You should start a thread called “Ask a chemist anything”.

 

That would be a dangerous thread. I know just enough to not blow myself up. No guarantees that the rest of you won't explode if you follow my bad advice.

 

For the mineral spirits… I’d wash/scrub it very thoroughly with dish soap and terry cloth. Undiluted right on the spots. Then rinse well.

 

Also used for scrubbing tires as well.