White Pants Clean

Wal Mart sales Iron Out also. Been using it for years but I boil water on the stove and pour it in the bucket. The boiling water seems to work better!

Would another rust/iron removing product do the same job? We don't have IronOut, specifically, over here, but there are other brands of the same type of thing.

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I've found that when you put the pants in the bucket it is best if you're not wearing them. When using the boiling water method this is essential.

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I've found that when you put the pants in the bucket it is best if you're not wearing them. When using the boiling water method this is essential.

I'll have to check into that. There may be some opinions that differ and say it's alright to sit in a bucket of hot scalding water with white baseball pants on.

This method has actually been around a long time, since gotwood's great granddad got some wood together to make a cauldron

As James Brown would sing "Hot Pants"

Oxy Clean, 2 scoops in about 2 gallons of hot water in a bucket overnite. Wash in warm water. Always comes out. Used it all the time when son was catching.

There is an old thread in the Ladies Only section about cleaning white pants.

I found it a couple of years ago and have been using dishwasher powder ever since. Cascade and the like. It works great. Wash the pants seperately in hot water. Maybe some Shout to help. No soaking. They come out looking brand new even in Georgia clay.

If your going to wash them with your son still in the pants don't put as much water in the washer!!

http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/f...56090291/m/757102268

Cascade? Now that makes sense! OxyClean does not work on our VA clay. I'll stop by Walmart/Lowes today to try some of the Iron Out.

Hmmm....wonder how a team would look in terra cotta pants?

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I'm sure we could put together a decent team from the rank of these guys...






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Wow Krak! Where'd ya' find that photo? I checked it against our family album and I'm pretty sure that is not a photo of my great grandpa Chip, but rather his brother, my great uncle, Elixir.



Here's a photo of both of them on the stump. That's my great uncle Conk standing on the ground beside them. You can see Chip was quite excited by the firewood log they felled. Beats me as to how they got it back to the house. I think they used a sky hook...that's what I was always told.

They were always ahead of their time. How'd they know a Sky Hook© would come along decades later?






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Stop by the car wash on your way home after the game and blow the clay out of the clothes using the pressure wand. Throw clothes in a bucket and dump them in the washer when you get home. Works great!!

I haven't been able to find Iron Out in my part of VA but I swear by Greased Lightning (the cleaner - not the drink.....)

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Originally posted by Mank10:
Stop by the car wash on your way home after the game and blow the clay out of the clothes using the pressure wand.!!

Worked on dirt; I actually saw a bunch of bikers use this technique after a week at a biker rally in Sturgis SD a few years back. The guys looked clean after the spray down, but they still weren't as clean as their "bikes". Not sure how it will do on clay?

Spray the pants with your favorite stain remover, wait however long the stain remover directions say, then dump in a 5 gallon bucket with water and plenty of Iron-Out. Let sit as long as is feasible, I prefer two days. Pull them out of the stinking sulfur smelling bucket, wring them out, then wash in the machine on extra/heavy with Oxi-Clean and enough liquid laundry detergent so that you have to run the rinse cycle an extra time to get all the sudsy out. This will work. I can't swear which step or ingrediant is the crucial one (although I suspect its the Iron Out), but if you take the time and effort this will remove even caked on Alabama red clay.

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Originally posted by fillsfan:
There is an old thread in the Ladies Only section about cleaning white pants.

LOL fillsfan, when I fist glanced at your post I read it "There is a thread in the old Ladies section..." I started to get HIGHLY offended!

gameday, I learned a long time ago that when typing the words "old" and "lady" in the same sentence to double and triple check the sequencing of the words.

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gameday, I learned a long time ago that when typing the words "old" and "lady" in the same sentence to double and triple check the sequencing of the words.

Ahhhh, the wisdom that only comes with age and experience!

Fels Naptha, a bar soap works every time for my wife.

Fels Naptha works on small spots that you work on with elbow grease. Iron out is the best that I've found. You can find Iron out in the Krogers in the south. It's much more expensive at Walmart. There is another version of Iron Out, (White Brite I believe) that's not as toxic smelling, but doesn't have the oomph as Iron Out. If you want to us serious elbow grease, I've found regular Dawn dish detergent gets alot of the top soil off. The deep set stuff stays, though.

How would IronOut effect black piping on the pantlegs of otherwise white pants?

Iron Out has never effected the piping on sons pants, although on younger's Nike white socks with the black swoosh, the swoosh turned gold after a couple hours!

Iron Out and Brite White beats everything I've ever seen. I've used every single item suggested so far and nothing has come close to those two products for handling our red Georgia clay.

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"the swoosh turned gold after a couple hours!"

Was his team sponsored by...



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I tried the Iron Out followed by OxyClean with a chaser of Gain in hot water on son's white uni. So white I need sunglasses! And that after having dried it in the dryer previously even though it wasn't entirely clean. Thanks for the tips. Wish I had read it sooner.

Ok, I know iron out works on the pants and doesn't affect the piping. My son has done a few head first slides and his white jersey is stained as well. It has the stitch on letters. Do you know if the iron out will effect the letters and number on the back? Would hate to fade that stuff out.

Iron Out has never faded anything of ours. We do tops and bottoms.

Alright, I'll have to give it a try. Did his pants and they look great as usual, but soaked top in OxyClean and washed and still stained.

How about grey pants? Can you use Iron Out on them?

Be careful with "White Brite". I learned the hard way that it will change the color of embroidery after being soaked in it. Luckily we had another of the same logo that I could sew on the pants.

works on grey also. Again, we use on all colors and have never had anything affected. would not mix colors.

I'll try it on the grey pants. I'm still a little leery about the tops with the embroidered lettering. I did a white hat with blue bill one time for son and it turned the bill purple from a royal blue. Although it doesn't affect the pinstripe, so it may be safe.

We have two sets of Whites at our old school and for three years we kept them looking brand new, by washing them in a degreaser! Yes a degreaser! It is a product called Mega Purple. You can get it from a company in the Metro Plex called Winzer, Phone # 800-527-4126! Hope that helps!!! It gets out everything from clay stains, red gatorade and grass!!!!!

This may be a silly question but who washes the uniforms at college?

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This may be a silly question but who washes the uniforms at college?

It depends on the program. Big time D1 programs wash the uniforms, some wash their practice gear as well, while at other colleges, you are on your own.

One of the schools my son visited, a private D-3, said that some students help off-set tuition costs by working part-time for the school. In the case of the baseball players that chose to work, their tasks involved helping maintain the field, locker room, and uniform laundry. Sounded like a great idea to me.

We found soaking with Iron Out/Hot Water works very well. They look very bright on the field.

The wife says DO NOT dry in the dryer if you have a tough stain that doesn't come out.

Thanks for this thread.

After an incident with orange gatorade I presoaked a pair of white pants in hot water with fels naptha overnight. The next morning, I boiled the pants and they came clean. I have never had to resort to this, but it worked.

If anyone tries this method, you have to take them off the burner as soon as they boil, and rinse in cool water to avoid any piping from fading. I've got a couple of little marks, but it better than buying a new pair of pants... whew

Just buy some white spray paint.

Its quick - and easy.

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"Just buy some white spray paint.

Its quick - and easy."

And illegal!

Yes indeed its...your's is a very good solution unless you're a player in the City of Chicago. For those unfortunate players batting it around in Daley's domain your solution will have them sitting on the bench...and not the one in the dug out.

They will have to continue making do with less effective materials... correction fluid and crayons. No legislation is yet proposed to make these two illegal.




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