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DutchmenSport
Oct 05, 2014Explorer
Ah .. what's drinking a little gasoline going to hurt? When I was a kid, Dad taught me how to siphon gas out of the car to use for the lawn mowers. I wonder how many gallons of gas I swallowed as a kid doing that. Just because my brain is full of holes now, .... that has nothing to do with it ...
True story:
I worked for McDonalds for A LOT of YEARS! I worked for SEVERAL of them as secondary jobs, and usually ended up being the night maintenance man (Their term for the night janitor).
The year was around 1980. McDonalds had their own formula cleaning solution for the floors that was designed to remove the grease from cooking. Back then, when they actually cooked their burgers, the grease would pile up on the floor by the grill, really deep. This one night I came in and they were out of the soap.
The manager told one of the other crew to go to the grocery store across the parking lot and get a couple bottles of Dawn Dish washing liquid. I used that all night long, and actually, it worked better than their own formula. The manager told me Dawn was designed to cut petroleum and animal fat (grease). Years later, Dawn advertised cleaning crude oil off of wildlife after a major oil spill.
Ever since that experience at McDonalds, I've used Dawn for cleaning my hands after working on car engines, lawn mowers, oil changes, even paints and varnish. Great stuff!
Thanks for the info to the OP.
True story:
I worked for McDonalds for A LOT of YEARS! I worked for SEVERAL of them as secondary jobs, and usually ended up being the night maintenance man (Their term for the night janitor).
The year was around 1980. McDonalds had their own formula cleaning solution for the floors that was designed to remove the grease from cooking. Back then, when they actually cooked their burgers, the grease would pile up on the floor by the grill, really deep. This one night I came in and they were out of the soap.
The manager told one of the other crew to go to the grocery store across the parking lot and get a couple bottles of Dawn Dish washing liquid. I used that all night long, and actually, it worked better than their own formula. The manager told me Dawn was designed to cut petroleum and animal fat (grease). Years later, Dawn advertised cleaning crude oil off of wildlife after a major oil spill.
Ever since that experience at McDonalds, I've used Dawn for cleaning my hands after working on car engines, lawn mowers, oil changes, even paints and varnish. Great stuff!
Thanks for the info to the OP.
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