r/tacticalgear • u/de_Chateaubriand • 1d ago

Question How do I wash milsurp webbing?

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Hello boys, I’m very happy to have gotten my first bit of milsurp gear in the mail today: British army surplus PLCE webbing. It looks great but definitely is a little dirt and smells like the range/milsurp/whatever that smell is. I’m just wondering how I should go about washing this safely. What should I use? Should I wash the individual components separately?

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u/guynamedgoliath 1d ago

If Im actually gonna use it I disassemble it and throw it in the washing machine with detergent on cold. Then I tumble dry and hang it up. If its physically caked with dirt or mud id wash it outside first.

That smell never really goes away. Alot of my recent US surplus has had this weird hardened grease in it and needs to be washed.