Boiled linseed oil, what to do with rags afterwards?

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After i use the boiled linseed oil, do i burn the rags, since they will spontaneously combust anyways? rather than waiting for them to do it on their own. i live in a pat complex and have no garage. any help is appreciated.
 
I have a coffee can I put a few rags in soaked with BLO and have never felt any heat come off of them. Maybe if your doing furniture and have piles of rags it could be a problem but for nothing more than one handle and one rag or two I havent felt any heat myself. Dont trust me tho and burn your complex down but i just dont think you can store enough heat in a rag or two to combust. The can says spread them out until they dry to disperse the heat then you can pack them away.
 
I seldom use rags with linseed oil. I do finger dips and rub it in with my hands and fingers, sometimes use a soft toothbrush, preferably someone elses. Usually don't even wipe off with a rag.
Gets me in tune with the wood so to speak. Feel the love I guess.
 
i use proper heat boiled linseed oil, w/o them nasty chemical and heavy metal drying agents, rub it in by hand, and wipe it off when i get tired of rubbing with my special dedicated blo rag. which then gets washed thoroughly and dried flat in one layer and stored the same til next time. darn real blo takes many days to dry, but still less than unboiled linseed oil (aka 'flax seed' beloved by health nuts).
 
I use old flaxseed oil, without a rag, though I will wipe any excess from my hand with a bit of toilet paper and then flush it. For axe handles, shovels, etc, I brush it on with a shortened paint brush (kept in a big applesauce jar holding the oil) and rub it on by hand.
 
Either burn them after use or put the linseed oil rags into a metal container with a tight fitting lid away from any sources of ignition or combustible material.
 
My neighbor's house burned to the ground about a month ago, because after refinishing a piece of furniture, they left a pile of oily rags on their outdoor deck and they self-ignited. Be careful out there folks.
 
I worked at a furniture factory that burned down because of oily rags combusting. 100 people out of jobs for several months while it was rebuilt. The procedure was to spread out the oily rags on the concrete floor to let them dry out and then dispose of in the trash. Somebody forgot to do that one night.

I always do one of two thing: spread them out in open area so they can dry or fill a can with water and put them in it.
 
kronckew said:
i use proper heat boiled linseed oil, w/o them nasty chemical and heavy metal drying agents, rub it in by hand, and wipe it off when i get tired of rubbing with my special dedicated blo rag. which then gets washed thoroughly and dried flat in one layer and stored the same til next time. darn real blo takes many days to dry, but still less than unboiled linseed oil (aka 'flax seed' beloved by health nuts).
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Where do you get the proper boiled oil?
 
uluapark said:
After i use the boiled linseed oil, do i burn the rags, since they will spontaneously combust anyways? rather than waiting for them to do it on their own. i live in a pat complex and have no garage. any help is appreciated.
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They may combust. I've never had any combust on me. I hang 'em out individually to dry/of gas, then toss 'em in the garbage at the curb.
 
i've had the tin so long i forget. :) i think it was our local hardware store, which happens to be the local coffin maker and undertaker as well.
 
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i've had the tin so long i forget. :) i think it was our local hardware store, which happens to be the local coffin maker and undertaker as well.
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Stab em slab em and BLO em! Thats a well rounded shop there! Did they have a soda fountain up front for the kids too?
 
sadly, no. whole store part is about 20 ft. x 10 ft. offices off to the left behind the counter, store rooms behind the counter area. hearses parked out back in garages next to the coffin works. funeral hall down the block a bit. in that 200 sq. feet they have electrical sundries, small hardware, nuts, bolts, hooks, rope, wire, fencing, doorknobs, locks, electrical wall sockets, ceiling fittings, fuses, flashlights, batteries, paint, varnish, polishes, glues of all types, kitchen utensils, pots, pans, kettles, teapots, coffee makers, cutlery, garden supplies & equipment, building materials,custom cut lumber, cleaning products, soaps, laundry detergent, fans, dowels, small hand tools, drills, and they make keys (badly). they also do plastic sundries, buckets, trash bins, garbage pails, storage containers, mops, ladders, folding chairs, stacking plastic lawn chairs, etc. that they faithfully put outside the shop every morning & take back in at night. i've probably forgot a bunch of stuff too. they don't do sporting goods. they also do limousine services.

if you need only one 1/32" x 1" flathead hex bolt, and nut, they will sell you just the one. free delivery over £10.00, all major cards accepted. no paypal yet tho.

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they even have a website: Linky AND Linky II
 
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Man! Thats my kind of place! And a Daimler DS420 Limo. Thats classy as it gets! I use to have a 66 Mercedes 230s brought over from Germany that looked a lot like that with the fins, bullet turn signals, etc. Same color too!
 
What a place.
That probably takes them an hour to set up every day.
Family owned and operated I guess.
 
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What a place.
That probably takes them an hour to set up every day.
Family owned and operated I guess.
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takes 'em about ten minutes - they all help. as noted, a family run business, and not a chain or franchise. been in business for six generations.

(some of the bigger items get left out, just covered up with a tarp. they don't go walkies here.
we did have a major crime last week, a five year old male was apprehended by his mother after pinching a
candy bar at the local supermarket. he was sentenced to an hour on the naughty step.)
 
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That's how it starts a candy bar today, a limo tomorrow. Hour on the naughty step, that's hard time for a 5 year old. Maybe he'll be saved.
 
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