How does everyone wash their packs?
I've never bothered too much before, just a bit of a wipe down with a cloth occasionally, but my daypack is getting a bit scungy and i'd like to give it a decent clean.
Thanks in advance.
Washing Packs
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ILUVSWTAS - Lagarostrobos franklinii
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Re: Washing Packs
by ollster » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 9:38 pm
I put mine in the bath with washing up detergent and scrub the buggery out of it with a brush.
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Re: Washing Packs
by flyfisher » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 9:44 pm
Does the buggary come out well with a brush? 
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Re: Washing Packs
by ILUVSWTAS » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 9:45 pm
Yeh I've heard you mention that, I think if I dont get any better ideas, then thats about the best approach.
I do love my pack so sharing a bath with it sounds kinda nice.....
I do love my pack so sharing a bath with it sounds kinda nice.....
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Re: Washing Packs
by ollster » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:07 pm
flyfisher wrote:Does the buggary come out well with a brush?
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You've got to scrub it pretty hard.
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Re: Washing Packs
by ollster » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:09 pm
ILUVSWTAS wrote:I do love my pack so sharing a bath with it sounds kinda nice.....
I've had 2 packs in a bath at once. Highly recommended.
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Re: Washing Packs
by flyfisher » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:11 pm
Anyone been in the bath with a six pack. 
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Re: Washing Packs
by Nuts » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:16 pm
ive done the odd overnight pack that way....thesedays its just ends up the larger ones....
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Re: Washing Packs
by ILUVSWTAS » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:18 pm
I think Nuts may have been enjoying a bath with a 6 pack or 2....
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Re: Washing Packs
by Nuts » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:24 pm
nah. i have other vices.
(bot....they seem to scrub up well with a little sard)
(bot....they seem to scrub up well with a little sard)
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Re: Washing Packs
by Bap » Sat 25 Sep, 2010 10:35 pm
I just dumped mine in the washing machine tonight when I got home it came out really well, but I am in the market for a new bigger day pack so I don't mind doing this to it.
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Re: Washing Packs
by north-north-west » Tue 28 Sep, 2010 9:08 pm
Wire brush and Dettol.
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Re: Washing Packs
by Nuts » Tue 28 Sep, 2010 9:57 pm
strewf, id hate to be your pack
sard (s'worth repeating) especially the lavender one! Leave a little, then a nail brush hard 'soft' brush... I have tried a pressure washer, (from appropriate distance).
sard (s'worth repeating) especially the lavender one! Leave a little, then a nail brush hard 'soft' brush... I have tried a pressure washer, (from appropriate distance).
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Re: Washing Packs
by whiskeylover » Wed 29 Sep, 2010 3:33 pm
Usually just brush off or hose down, but when day pack harness or big pack lumbar pad become too smelly I soak in napisan and a drop of eucalyptus oil, then rinse and dry. Also works well if things leak in your pack (e.g. the milk after you've walked to the supermarket). If this doesn't work then metho is another trick for removing smells - works for smelly t-shirts too.
medicinal purposes only of course
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Re: Washing Packs
by north-north-west » Wed 29 Sep, 2010 8:02 pm
Nuts wrote:strewf, id hate to be your pack
Sorry. I momentarily forgot which forum I was on. That was a standard SSSF response.
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