Nappies - where do you find them?

[awol]

'Cos I've had a wee spill of diesel which will collect (eventually) under the engine I thought I would place a nappy there in wait for its arrival. I wandered into my local super-store, found the kiddies aisles easily enough but could I find a simple disposable type nappy? Could I bu**ery!
There were all sorts of absorbant devices but all were accompanied with inbuilt plastic pants complete with ludicrous prices and asking the assistants (a misnomer if ever there was one) elicited nought but blank looks.
Have nappies gone the way of the dodo?

 

[Guest]

Generally babies are not a fire risk.

However a diesel soaked absorbent pad is nearly an explosion risk. Diesel should never be combined with a wick unless there is some sort of fire suppressant. Float it on water or collect it in a cup. As long as there is no tissue around it is hard to light.

I was introduced to Diesel by a farmer, he had a big barrel of it. After lighting the diesel dryer with a burning rag on a stick he would toss the rag into the barrel of diesel to put it out. He described to me the day that he missed and had half in and half out!

 

[BlueSkyNick]

your point is well made, but nappies are still very useful for mopping up spillages, either oil, diesel or water, if you bin them straight away.

 

[Poignard]

You should try Weetabix. If they soak up oil like they soak up milk they'd be ideal.

 

[wetndry]

Is cat litter a totally stupid suggestion?

BTW individual nappies can sometimes be found in coin operated dispensers in baby changing rooms at motorway service stations and the like. Packs of cheap nappies can be bought at pound shops and corner shops in less-well-off areas.

 

[gary3029]

inco pads work much better. They are bigger and absorb more. Do you have any contacts at a nursing home/hospital?

 

[Scarboroughsloop]

Are you taking the piss?

 

[Poignard]

How about some of these ?

 

[awol]

Wow - oilies at £5.20 a set - that's better than Lidl's.

 

[mikefleetwood]

Careful
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... if you bin them straight away.

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doesn't take away the explosion risk of fuel-soaked nappy, just puts it somewhere else! Just waiting for some tidy person to chuck their fag-end in the bin /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Mind you, on "Myth busters" they demonstrated that it is very diffucult to ignite petrol with a cigarette end. I don't know about a rubbish bin full of fuel vapour though - that should be interesting!

 

[pyrojames]

It's very difficult to ignite most things with a cigarette, but there are enough cigarettes about to take advantage of that 1 in 1000 event.

 

[mikefleetwood]

Well, quite!

If I recall, they concluded that LIQUID petrol is quite difficult to ignite. But the vapour is much more easy to ignite, if in sufficient concentration. I expect a bin full of vapour would go up easily if a still-lighted cigarette was chucked in!

 

[clouty]

To answer the original question, Tesco Value, Asda Smartprice, or your local poundshop...

 

[bluedragon]

Got mine in Aldi. The larger child size. Soak up an amazing amount of hard-to-get-at bilge water!! But don't leave them too long (with water) as they absorb so much they burst...

 

[alienzdive]

Nappies should be placed beside condoms in the supermarket. When you see nappies you should then think instantly that if using condoms you will never be needing nappies.

 

[Cornishman]

Nappies, or disposable nappies? In the good old days nappies were squares of towelling material which were washed and re-used many times. These disposable creations are a sin if you have ever been a litter clearer in parks or woods.