Cotton Waste
Any ideas where to get old fashioned engine cleaners best friend cotton waste?
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I have often wondered , nothing like it on an engine .
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Not bought any waste since the mid 80's, and as you say used to come in a large sack, very handy it was to, once it had soaked up all the oil it could be used to light up. |
Cotton waste is available wholesale, perhaps this is a business opportunity for someone.
https://www.europages.co.uk/companie...n%20waste.html We used to use it in engineering I don't think "health and safety" liked it much, we changed to rags sometime in the 80's. |
'Shoddy' is a thing of the past. Most cotton waste is not recycled, and what is goes abroad. Cotton felt can still be obtained but can leave a lot of bits ( but so could shoddy ). Cotton felt can also contain wool. For cleaning, rather than polishing, I have used 'mutton cloth' - my family were butchers and sold imported lamb wrapped in ' mutton cloth'. There are sellers of these alternatives on Ebay.
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I think that there may be some confusion here . Surely ' shoddy ' was a fertiliser or soil conditioner made from textile waste , I think wool , not the same thing at all as bleached waste ?
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I have googled it . Shoddy was recycled woolen fibre , re spun into an inferior fabric . The waste from shoddy production , including seams and the like , together with short fibres from carding , was marketed as a slow release nitrogen manure and mulch , and was a great favourite among market gardeners . It is still used to grow the best rhubarb , but is now hard to get with the decline of the woolen industry .
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