04-19-2014, 02:05 PM
davester wrote:
[quote=srf1957]
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?
The phosphorus won't cut the grease, oil and Diesel (more or less, because they are non-polar). But it will get many other things (minerals) out of your clothing. Just try using it to clean a head of hair and you'll find that hair to be the cleanest in memory, washing out all the hardness.