Brake Dust in Boars Hair Brush

**Bert** · 01-12-2017, 05:51 PM

Brake Dust in Boars Hair Brush

During the winter I use a new Boars Hair Brush to wash my car with. After the brush starts showing wear, I buy a new one and the old one gets moved to wheel duty (they do a good job on wheels). I had a brain fart this week. I wasn`t paying close attention and had the new one on the pole thinking it was the old one and washed wheels with it.

I have soaked it in water with APC and sprayed it with the pressure washer but I am still cautious about using it on paint. Am I being way too OCD and it should be fine now? Or you also would be hesitant to use it? Thanks.

**Ronkh** · 01-12-2017, 06:00 PM

I`d be afraid to, but that`s me. I`ll throw out a micro if it hits the ground.

**tom p.** · 01-12-2017, 06:03 PM

Bert, I don`t think I`d be using the BHB on wheels unless you know it`s going to be thrown away.

**dontlikemyname** · 01-12-2017, 06:06 PM

Looks like you got a new wheel brush to me. JMO but I`m cautious about using anything that could be contaminated at all.

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**512detail** · 01-12-2017, 06:53 PM

yea id keep it as a wheel brush now personally

not worth the risk

if you want a tri angled one (bought over holiday sales and only used twice on paint) - I`d be open to a trade if you are - just throwing it out there - as I don`t personally like it (micro mitts for me) - you can pm me if interested

**LEDetailng** · 01-12-2017, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ronkh

I`d be afraid to, but that`s me. I`ll throw out a micro if it hits the ground.

Not only are you the Super Wax Waster, but also a MF towel waster as well

I will not reuse/wash a towel once it gets grease on it. It gets tossed. Drop it on the ground and it gets sprayed off and inspected, but can`t throw them away. I`m too cheap. Drop it in sand, maybe then I`d just toss it.

**Ronkh** · 01-12-2017, 08:21 PM

Sand all around here. That`s all there is, sand and alligators, and birds that poop on cars.

**Swanicyouth** · 01-12-2017, 08:31 PM

I`m going to be the lone voice of disagreement here.

I say if you clean/rinse it correctly and throughly, it should be 100% fine to use on paint. It`s hair - not an fiber made up of nano filaments that can trap everything.

It`s kind of like washing your hair - no matter how dirty it is - it`s usually possible to get it 100% clean.

**rlmccarty2000** · 01-12-2017, 09:35 PM

I would continue to use it for wheels and buy a new one. It`s easy for me to spend your money. It is probably clean. Probably.

**Angus** · 01-12-2017, 10:16 PM

I`d skip using a boars hair brush on your paint altogether. Microfiber mitts are easier to clean after use and way cheaper to replace!

<-- OCD

**Accumulator** · 01-13-2017, 12:44 PM

Regulars here know that I`m a huge BHB fan, and have been for decades.

I`d reuse that BHB, yeah on the hood of a black car, with no hesitation *ONCE* I`d cleaned it out thoroughly. IMO that`s one of, if not THE, biggest feature of the things- the way they rinse clean.

Originally Posted by Angus

Microfiber mitts are easier to clean [than BHBs] after use..

See how experiences differ?!? I find MF to be the hardest medium to get clean once it`s contaminated with certain stuff while BHBs are the easiest thing to clean that I`ve *ever* used, bar none. I`ve used BHBs to degrease decades-old undercarriages and had them clean up just like new with hardly any effort at all.

Guess it`s just another of those YMMV things, not challenging your take on it at all so I hope I`m not coming across that way.

**Angus** · 01-13-2017, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Accumulator

Guess it`s just another of those YMMV things, not challenging your take on it at all so I hope I`m not coming across that way.

Not at all! Maybe one day you`ll even convince me to change my mind

**Accumulator** · 01-13-2017, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Angus

Maybe one day you`ll even convince me to change my mind

Considering how tough it is to find *GOOD* BHBs, and how much they cost, I might not be doing you any favors if I do!

But seriously, it`s downright freaky how well *REALLY* nasty stuff keeps cleaning right out of mine. And I figure that the brake dust that *I* am familiar with just isn`t the kind of stuff that`d stick to the bristles all that tenaciously. Now if it`s somehow down in the holes in the block, really *CONTAMINATING* everything, that`d be a different story. But I think about my BHBs For Wheels and I really wouldn`t worry about them being that bad. Remember that I let wheels get utterly disgusting between washes too.

Actually, I do use my BHBs For Wheels to do the undercarriage and some gravel-guarded/textured rocker panels and it`s never done any more damage than I`d get anyhow (whenver I`m not doing my foamgun thing I get some marring no matter what I do). Didn`t mention it before since IMO those surfaces aren`t really the same as the body proper.

With most wheels having a really tough finish (AFAIK they`re mostly powdercoated these days) they`re not all that fragile so maybe this isn`t a valid example, but it`s not like we use a new BHB to clean them once and then mar them up every time after that.

Heh heh, gee I`d sure hate to be wrong and have Bert have some awful !oops! just because I`m so certain though