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westy_LA_fade_away
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 2:55 pm    Post subject: "White Collar Grime" Reply with quote

Anyone with a corporate job ever gotten grief for being grimy at the office? Oil stained clothes? Smelling like gas? Etc?

I sometimes run home over lunch and will do a quick repair... last year, i changed a fuel filter and got a nice fuel spray before having to return to the office for a meeting. Here was how the meeting opened:

Girl in the meeting, with a strange look on her face, looking around the room with her nose in the air:

"Does anyone smell gas?? Not like a fart.... but like gasoline?"

Me: "uh... that's me. I was changing a filter over lunch, and got a face full of gas"

Girl in the meeting: " Yeah, you reek of petroleum"

Me: "Thank You"

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I work from home, and if I don't answer the phone right away when the boss calls the message always starts, "when you're through messing around with your bug"....
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the 90's I took a co-worker home at lunch time to hold a wrench,
because I needed a third hand to replace a fuel pressure regulator on my '78 Convertible.
We didn't come back dirty, but we were about an hour late getting back to work!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

regular junkyard yard lunch runs here.. I wear gloves.. try not to get sweaty or greasy
not always successful, but something like fuel.. a no no.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've met with clients to discuss insurance with cuts and beat up hands. No one has ever said anything, but if they did I would give them the old.. "Nothing like weekend home renovation projects!" line! Not everyone can understand nor appreciate working on classic cars. Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I learned it's NOT a good idea to take your drain oil to the recycling center while wearing a white shirt and a tie.

I even had a helper. We had about 40 gallons of drain oil in various jugs and bottles. The recycling center has a big tank they insist you pour it into and then your empty jugs can go in a different recepticle.

We got almost all of it in and were still clean. Then one jug had to give a big burp and both of us were instantly COVERED in nasty drain oil.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I meet clients all the time with beat up hands and scratches on my arms....its always a home renovation project unless I know them and they know about the VW'st; but then, I work for an architect. Gas, oil and grimy nails don't fly.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My reason for asking was that i did a transmission flush and refill over lunch yesterday... had time to shower and change before returning, but that was after I managed to get some trans fluid in my hair, face, and in my left eye... tons of GoJo and a shower didn't get rid of the smell...and my eye looked like someone landed a right hook... i managed to fly under the radar and no one said anything, but it made me laugh and realize that it has been a fairly regular occurrence.
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Sometimes function over looks isn't bad, unless you're at a bar.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm… I troubleshooted a no-idle issue on my '69 in a tuxedo last year. Idle solenoid was disconnected for some reason. But it took me a while- and I'm lucky I had my old towel to lay out back!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a 20-30 minute lunch and do your dirty errands after work.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a Chef at a high end Market, I usually have to scrub & soak my hands to get all the grease off. I'm off Sat./Sun./Mon., on Mondays I try to do non VW stuff, giving my hands a day to heal. I don't take a lunch break, to farken busy....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vwracerdave wrote:
Take a 20-30 minute lunch and do your dirty errands after work.

Or just be like me-------don't bother working in the first place. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iowegian wrote:
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Take a 20-30 minute lunch and do your dirty errands after work.

Or just be like me-------don't bother working in the first place. Very Happy

I take an hour nap on my half hour lunch break! Razz
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They don't call me Greezy Joe for nothin' Laughing When I'm all cleaned up people wonder what is wrong Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You guys seriously need to get Boraxo powdered hand soap. I am a professional ACVW mechanic and get totally covered in VW poop every day and that stuff sends me home looking like a work a desk job. It is a truly amazing old product.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always wear nitrile gloves now. Partly to keep the oil off my hands, mostly to keep the oil and solvent from soaking the band-aids.

Best comment I got was from a woman at the bank, I was covered in solvent, from magnafluxing. She said "what is that? it reminds me of mexico". Laughing

Used oil has so much carbon in it, stains you arms dark. I used to get tired of people asking me if I'm a mechanic. I'd tell em I'm a chimney sweep.
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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2014 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Friend of mine got a bit of grief for reeking of alcohol in a meeting the morning after a night out. He hadn't even slept, and was still pissed. While trying to sober him up we found a half a chicken breast in his shirt pocket. Fell out of a chicken sandwich he had the night before.
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

X100 Boraxo is where it's at your grand pa's knew it well.
I buy the 5# box and transfer it into WELL LABELED grated parm cheese containers (recycled).
tootype2crazy wrote:
You guys seriously need to get Boraxo powdered hand soap. I am a professional ACVW mechanic and get totally covered in VW poop every day and that stuff sends me home looking like a work a desk job. It is a truly amazing old product.

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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

danfromsyr wrote:
X100 Boraxo is where it's at your grand pa's knew it well.
I buy the 5# box and transfer it into WELL LABELED grated parm cheese containers (recycled).
tootype2crazy wrote:
You guys seriously need to get Boraxo powdered hand soap. I am a professional ACVW mechanic and get totally covered in VW poop every day and that stuff sends me home looking like a work a desk job. It is a truly amazing old product.


Boraxo! I'd forgotten about that! Yeah that does the job.
Lava soap does pretty well, as does Dawn dishwashing detergent.
The big tub of Goop is always handy.
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reading all of this makes me glad I work a blue collar job and don't need to look good for work. I am a carpenter, so I am usually scraped up and covered with dust during the week, then I get more scrapes and covered with grime on the eves/weekends.
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