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robinson46176 wrote:A good neighbor likes to wear his Tee shirts until they are about 50% hole area (air ) and 50% cloth in various levels of thinness. Really useless for rags.
Diana will not let me do that (takes after her grandmother ). I go through a lot of Tee shirts on the farm and in the farm shop, they have a rough life. Lots of greasy dirty work and clothing damage from snags, welding sparks, rolling around on the ground. Once something happens to a shirt or the collar starts showing a little wear it is quickly retired to "rag" status. She washes them and boxes them up and sends them to the farm shop. I get a few "new" Tee shirts along but about 90% of my Shirts, especially work shirts, come from Goodwill, yard sales and really good sales on new ones. It keeps her busy since they have to be size 2X and can be a little harder to find.
A good % of the rags do get washed and used again but normally after I have hung them out in the weather on a line for a week or so. Sun, wind and rain gets rid of the gommy stuff while they are hanging out. Then they go back to the house to be washed as a batch alone.
I come from a long highly dedicated line of pack-rats. This house and more buildings are packed full of "stuff" my folks acquired from the estates of about 5 other households like childless aunts and uncles, my grandparents and a family friend. As Diana and I have sorted out everything (we will never get done) we have donated any good clothing but anything appropriately tired has gone to the "rag boxes". I won't be running out anytime soon.
In the wood shop I tend to lean toward the blue shop towels. For disposal they go into the big wood-burning furnace. If it is operating they go poof and disappear. If it is off like now they just lay there with any fumes venting up the chimney. If they were to self combust, no big deal. Very strong and safe fireproof box. I don't really use all that many anyway. If a small pile forms I just toss in a match.

One handy item in the stuff is that we have a "lot" of used bed sheets in sound but slightly worn condition. They sure work great as machinery dust covers. As an example I have a number of specialty sewing machines, some pretty expensive. they don't need to be getting a lot of dust in their innards.



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jsburger wrote:One thing I have always said is that I would rather fly on a military transport aircraft (I have been around the world more than once on them) than a civilian aircraft since I know how the military aircraft are maintained. That is not to take anything away from the civilian aircraft industry just something I always said for no particular reason other than familiarity with the aircraft I have flown on. C-141, C-130, KC-135, KC-10, C-5 and F-16.

Ed in Tampa wrote: