04-19-2014, 09:49 AM
srf1957 wrote:
The problem with all washers is the soap. If you are a commercial laundry you can still use phosphate detergent. I get clothes covered in grease, oil , and diesel no washer cleans them. I happen to spill some phosphate fertilizer on them they get cleaner.
That's very unlikely, since the phosphates in detergent in the 1960s didn't function as surfactants. In any case, detergents have not had significant phosphate content for 45 years, so how would you even know this was the problem?