Scary/Weird thing I found out today..

I've used Coke to clean corroded battery terminals on my car before. There's also a 3rd grade science fair experiment where you put a tooth in a glass of Coke. It completely dissolves in a few days. I try to stay away from soft drinks because they're not really good for you.

 

But hey, I'm a drycleaner and I've never heard of Coke taking out stains. Careful though. A customer brought a shirt with a coke stain on it once. When I asked him how long the stain was there he said a few weeks. When I washed the shirt the area that had the coke on it completely fell apart. The coke had weakened the fibers of the fabric.

 

Of the products that are available on the retail market I guess I would try prespotting it with some liquid tide first. It usually works pretty good. At the store I would try prespotting it with some amyl acetate or Pyratex, and drycleaning it. That usually works well on oil. In Laundry I would use either Citru-Kleen or Hydro-Spot. I don't think either is available in retail stores though. I love the citru-kleen though. I keep a gallon of it at home and put a splash in the washer when I do laundry at home. All the clothes smell like oranges when they're done.

 

I don't know how that happened.

 

I am doing really good I usually have one a day and that is it. I used to be alot worse I want to slowly get to the point where I do stop.

 

If you put it in the dryer it will probably never come out. Your best shot is to soak it in a bucket of water with woolite (light colors) or clorox 2 (darks) in it overnight. That gets some of the toughest set in stuff out.

 

Sorry to rain on the parade but the tooth thing is not true



http://snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp

 

I would think that something like lemonade would have a better chance of dissolving a tooth since the concentration of citric acid is much higher.

 

If you think coke is bad, try gatorade. At the fill temperature of about 180 degrees it eats stainless steel. Gatorade not only has more citric acid than coke but it also has a ton of heavy salts. At pasturization temp there is not much it cant eat.

 

Another weird thing, as in " shouldn't drink that anymore", gas station cappuccino works better at cleaning dirt and grime off stuff then Srubbing Bubbles.

I found that out at work.

 

I didn't know that!

 

That's interesting. On a somewhat related note I wonder why it says on the pack not to make or store Kool-Aid in metal containers? Does it eat metal too?

 

FWIW, Coke has phosphoric acid in it, not citric acid. Coke isn't made from citrus fruit. The phosphoric acid in Coke is what cleans metals and such.

 

the level of phosphoric acid in coke is well below anything that could harm you. Eating an orange is more acidic.

 

Gatorade is fine if you want your shirt orange... LOL I can't always get gatorade stains out. I just had a guy today ask why his red wine stains didn't come out afer we recleaned the clothes twice. Come to find out they were stained 2 months ago and he is just now taking them in to be cleaned. That stain is set...