I usually use the green Swarfega as a hand cleaner.
I use Flash general purpose cleaner in an old soap dispenser bottle - cheap as chips and works a treat.
It's Crap. Like the rest of Swarfegas' products now. I use these:
Bob Mannix wrote: ... snipped
"cheap as chips" is an interesting expression Bob. In the 50's I used to get a shilling fish and a penn'orth o' chips from the chippie - and a free bag of scrumps (the best bit). I haven't bought any for a while but was a bit taken aback by the price the last time I did, and when I'd eventually managed to explain what "scrumps" were I was told they'd been banned because of some health concern. ... or did you mean the silicon type, which ARE cheap.
Dave S
Where did you grow up? We called them "scrags" when I was a kid in Manchester.
Steve
Good god, I hope I never get old...
just a figure of speech but I take your point!
Arround Leigh it is fish bits, or fry bits.
I believe in some parts of yorkshire it is scraps.
Lincoln
Dave
Yep - scraps here in North Yorkshire, and they certainly aren't banned !
yep, i've always called 'em scraps.
It's marketed as Tufanega now. Tufanega Green is the ordinary Swarfega; this was discussed a few weeks ago.
Strange how off topic this group gets isnt it!
call em scraps up near blackpool too. Assuming you're talking about the bits of crap left over from frying fish.
This bit of West Yorks its bits, but 12 miles away in Bradford they call them scraps. Still available afaik but I dont eat fish n chips these days.
Round my part of west yorkshire (wakefield) they are called bits. Some people call them scraps though, never heard of the others!
Just add some sand or sugar to regular green Swarfega. Wash your hands with it as you would Swarfega Orange, and then have a quick final wash with soap if anything is under your nails.
My dad has been doing that for years and years. Works well...
They still do scraps in the chippies here up north...
I believe Loctite do one in an orange hand pump thingy, stuffs white and feels like powdered pumice very good but drys your hands up a bit
Tufanega is orange (blue tub) and is also good
Regards Jeff
And Bob's message was a text-only message. Your mistake was to believe what "Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180" told you.
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