Mildew on Seat Belts
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murphey
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Take them out of the airplane, remove the hardware. Mix one cup of white vinegar in a bucket of water, and pre-soak the hardware for at least an hour. Then launder in your washing machine at the hottest temperature possible with your regular detergent with towels (they always need hot water). Rinse really well. Rinse again. Dry well.
There are anti-mold solutions at the grocery/big box store, but this is cheaper, easier and less toxic.
There are anti-mold solutions at the grocery/big box store, but this is cheaper, easier and less toxic.
Stewartb
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Scrub with liquid laundry soap and rinse with a pressure washer. Dawn dish soap works well for grease smears.
murphey
Touchdown! Greaser!
Yup, but mold isn't grease, altho it may have some embedded. The goal is to kill the bacteria. Vinegar's high acid (ph of 2.4 in the 5% solution at the grocery store) really does a number on the mold.
Stewartb
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Mold is not bacteria.
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Poor murphy....
Old laundry habits are hard to kick. But washers have changed, so have laundry detergents and you no longer have to use hot water to get clothes clean. You'll save energy washing in cold water, and here's why.
Even though they use less water, newer washers are much better at cleaning than the top-loaders with a center agitator made 15 years or more ago. Manufacturers have been lowering wash temperatures over the years to meet the Department of Energy’s tough energy standards for hot water use. Heating water accounts for about 90 percent of the energy needed to run a washer, according to Energy Star, so the less hot water used, the more energy saved.
These changes meant laundry detergents had to adapt too. So we asked the folks at Procter & Gamble to explain what changed. Sales of their laundry care products account for 53 percent of the market, according to Mintel, a market research company.
"Front-loaders and high-efficiency top-loaders run normal cycles 10 percent cooler than agitator washers, and the 'warm' wash temperature in the U.S. has declined by 15 degrees over the past 15 years," says Tracey Long, communications manager for P&G's fabric care products in North America. “Traditional detergent enzymes can be sluggish in cold water so we worked to create a mix of surfactants and enzymes that deliver cleaning performance in cold water across all product lines," says Long.
Old laundry habits are hard to kick. But washers have changed, so have laundry detergents and you no longer have to use hot water to get clothes clean. You'll save energy washing in cold water, and here's why.
Even though they use less water, newer washers are much better at cleaning than the top-loaders with a center agitator made 15 years or more ago. Manufacturers have been lowering wash temperatures over the years to meet the Department of Energy’s tough energy standards for hot water use. Heating water accounts for about 90 percent of the energy needed to run a washer, according to Energy Star, so the less hot water used, the more energy saved.
These changes meant laundry detergents had to adapt too. So we asked the folks at Procter & Gamble to explain what changed. Sales of their laundry care products account for 53 percent of the market, according to Mintel, a market research company.
"Front-loaders and high-efficiency top-loaders run normal cycles 10 percent cooler than agitator washers, and the 'warm' wash temperature in the U.S. has declined by 15 degrees over the past 15 years," says Tracey Long, communications manager for P&G's fabric care products in North America. “Traditional detergent enzymes can be sluggish in cold water so we worked to create a mix of surfactants and enzymes that deliver cleaning performance in cold water across all product lines," says Long.
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They will beat the **** out of a washing machine, I wouldn't do that. Chlorine bleach really works great, but that's probably out of the question for you. I'd go shopping for a non- chlorinated mold and mildew cleaner.