How to destroy apparel below 50% deterioration?

[Ghost_Ship_Supreme]

How do i "smelt" apparel that is below 50% durability? (tattered apparel)

[HunterSilver]

Go to an Electric Smelter workbench, add a bill for Destroy Apparel, click Details. Once there adjust the hitpoints to 0-49% and put any specific adjustments in that you would like.

For example, you may want to only destroy clothes but not armor, as that has a decent resale price even when damaged, so you may remove the entire Armor category and smeltable categories since smeltable apparel can be broken down for resources.

[gimmethegepgun]

You could also do the same for a burn pit, though those are better for en-masse stuff like tainted clothing and the hit point setting will get in the way of disposing of those items.

[pete_betts]

I prefer to recycle using one of the tailoring mods. Just be careful if you have the jewelry mod in there too and don't notice you've left the bill set up to recycle them. Embarrassing when you've just cut a nice gem and it gets trashed. Oh the shame.