Cleaning Oily Parachutes???

Last weekend at Englishtown , our chutes got soaked in oil. It may have had something to do with putting 4 windows in the block and a 3 more holes in the pan, then hitting the sandtraps at about 150 and landing upside down in the in catch net. No matter, the chutes came back on the flatbed wrapped around the motor, soaked in oil. Anyone have any experience cleaning parachutes? Our thoughts are taking them to the laundromat or dry cleaners. We thought we'd put this out there for suggestions, since not much else is salvagable from the car. David Smith has pictures when he gets a chance to put them on his site. Take Care

 

try washing them with or should i say soaking them in castrol super clean if anything will cut the oil that will sorry for the miss-hap hope everybody was ok

 

Thanks, no injuries. Driver complained of a sore little toe and a hurt wallet.

 

Been there, Done that (left the residue in the washer).

I used Simple Green and paper towels to clean the washer out, then ran a load of old black TORCO t-shirts through it. I didn't want the first load of clothes to be my wife putting a load of whites in it before it ran through another cycle.

RG

 

Whatsamateryou, you dona have a the laundrey mat a whera you live?? thena you wifa dona kill you!

 

Ray,
Was that you whos throttle was stuck wide open ?

 

Yeah. The car made a right towards the wall on 1-2 shift, John lifted immediately, about 800-1000 foot mark, and the throttle hung open. I think John was already focused on keeping the car off the wall, shutting down was a second, although equally important priority. A lot was happening on a 225mph run at once. Thanks to the Safety Safari and the rules implimented by NHRA, John had ZERO injuries, not even bruises from the belts. The brain damage was a pre-existing condition, why else would you drive/own a funny car.

 

I've herd that before
Glad to hear he's ok!

 

I don't have any quarters. Remember, I have a race car. LOL.

 

Cleaning Parachutes

Try putting them in the washing machine with a bottle of Fantastic. Works great on a long cycle in getting grease and oil out of T shirts as well.

Cricket

 

Will Has the best way of cleaning them. This is the same method we use and it works very good... Good Luck