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woods

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SpeedyDry?

Cat litter?

Mop and bucket?

What works best?
 
I think saw dust works better than speedy dry.

But my BIL throws away sawdust and buys speedy dry, so there's that....:homer:
 
I got this bag of stuff for industrial oil spills. I dont remember what its name is. The original bag split so I stuck it all in a large plastic zip lock dog food bag. Its white fluffy powder and it just sucks up oil. Doesnt touch water. Cover the spill, let it sit for a while, sweep it up and its and its gone. Take a little more and kind of tamp it in onto the concrete, sweep it up and theres almost no stain left. Dawn detergent and hot water make any little bit left disappear.
 
Oil dry/kitty litter type products are like glitter, once you dump that shit on your floor you'll be finding it for the life of the building. Sawdust is better in that it's easy to burn and get rid of. The gray Pig Mat type products are superior if you want to soak up a mess with something other than a mop. At work Aramark brings us these moving blanket type things that soak up an absolute fuckton of oil/coolant/brake fluid etc...

Engrained oil/dirt I've found is best handled with powdered laundry detergent (Tide w/ bleach) and a deck brush.
 
Benny said:
I think saw dust works better than speedy dry.

But my BIL throws away sawdust and buys speedy dry, so there's that....:homer:
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I haven't spent a penny on cat litter since I bought the $2600 sawmill :flipoff2:

woods if you want a yard or two of sawdust I know where you can get it. :laughing:
 
White absorb is oil only. Grey will do water too. Aka PIG mat.

A bundle of probably 18x18" 50 sheets is about $40.

Soak up with that. Brake clean or mop and degreaser for the leftover film.

Sawmill sawdust works great too. The fine stuff from a bandsaw mill. Way better than cat litter IMO. And it's usually free. Just be a few pails ahead so it has a chance to dry out if it's fresh.

Probably course stuff would work somewhat too.
I used to sell it to the refinery when USLD came out. The sulfur (liquid that to me looked and smelled just like diesel) would get mixed with sawdust and sent to the landfill.
 
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Leadfoot21 said:
We use it at work and it is amazing unless it’s windy out and the shop doors open
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Sawdust is bad for that as well. I bought that white power absorb once. It was ok, but for the price, not worth it at all. Can easily use $20 worth of that stuff picking up a gallon or two of spilled out where cat liter might be $5, or sawdust free.
 
Just ordered a couple bags of Oil-Dri. Something like $12 a 25lb bag. meh
 
Little bit of acetone, with some dirt on top.
 
Mineral spirits.

Saturate the area with mineral spirits or paint thinner. Then cover with an absorbent material such as dry Portland cement, talc, cat litter, Fuller's earth, corn meal, or cornstarch. Let stand overnight, and sweep away the cover.
 
Halffastford said:
I weld and cut in my shop. That epoxy doesn't last long.
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There is a difference between epoxy, and a clear liquid sealer, I had my floor smooth finished with a machine, then used a liquid with the consistency of water to soak in and seal.

I weld, grind, drag jacks all over it, the floor looks like raw concrete, and oil mostly wipes up.

I do use cat litter though.
 
Stingray said:
There is a difference between epoxy, and a clear liquid sealer, I had my floor smooth finished with a machine, then used a liquid with the consistency of water to soak in and seal.

I weld, grind, drag jacks all over it, the floor looks like raw concrete, and oil mostly wipes up.

I do use cat litter though.
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exactly this
except cat litter, just sweep your pile over the oil or whatever bits you have, still works
 
Stingray said:
The only downside is it is dangerously slick if it gets any water on it. like ice skating slick.
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I have never thought so

just as slick as walking into any grocery store on a rainy day

I have had this set up for years, I would do it again. and I'm running a forklift on it, still stands up fine
 
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SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
I have never thought so

just as slick as walking into any grocery store on a rainy day

I have had this set up for years, I would do it again. and I'm sunning a forklift on it, still stands up fine
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I hadn't though about it that way, but walking off of the concrete driveway with a broom finish, into the garage I always warn people.

My contractor tried to talk me out of it. I love it, everything cleans up so easy, sweeping is better, grinding is better, so much less work to clean up.
 
I don’t know what they did to the shop floor at my last job. It looks shiny but was never slippery, like dump a bottle of water and it wasn’t slick at all. It was concrete that looks like it had a layer ground down after it set(you can see the aggregate) and then clear coated. Doesn’t really make sense with my description but I did everything except use a torch on steel there. Grinding, metal fab, pulling jacks around, forklift, pallets, etc. Dragging a pallet(pallet Jack or pushing it outta the way with the forklift on the floor looked horrendous until you just pushed a broom over it or mopped it. Then it was like it never happened
 
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