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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    I dont use ONR and use a bunch of other rinseless washes. I usually will rinse and wring them in regular water. Then I soak then in a bucket full of hot water and oxiclean powder (I pour some hot water and oxiclean, mix it up so its fully dissolved.) I will let it soak 8 to 24 hours and then rinse and wash them and then put them in a commercial washer 😁.

    I don`t washer in my home washer anymore because I hate cleaning the washer after to ensure no chemicals remain.

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    The Persil works a lot better on my household MFs than it does on my Detailing ones, but when it does work it`s a great savings over a MF Detergent.

    If I were to soak them in OPC and use OxiClean like Lonnie I bet it`d work a lot better on the Detailing ones.

    When I use vinegar in the rinse I usually have to do another rinse to get it all out (as per sniff-test).

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    Speaking of laundry detergents; what ever happen to Charlie`s Liquid Laundry Soaps??
    That was one of the "flavors of the month" in this forum some time back (10 years?) as a soap cleaner for microfibers. The problem was that it worked so good, IF you did not follow the initial use instructions to wash a load of throw-away rags or towels, your microfibers would become "dirtied" by the loosened wash tub gunk that is pictured in some of these photos posted in this thread.
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    I stopped using Charlie’s because it didn’t get my clothes, let alone my MFs,particularly clean. I now use Tide exclusively which does the job for me.
    Treat it like it`s the only one in the world.
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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    I find my mf, even the nastiest ones, come clean since switching from all free and clear to a dedicated mf detergent. I’ve used poor boys and now 3D towel kleen and they all come clean. I have a front loading HE washer for reference. I do the hottest water setting and an extra rinse, dry on low in the dryer. It works for me.

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    Quote Originally Posted by PearTree View Post
    I find my mf, even the nastiest ones, come clean since switching from all free and clear to a dedicated mf detergent. I’ve used poor boys and now 3D towel kleen and they all come clean. I have a front loading HE washer for reference. I do the hottest water setting and an extra rinse, dry on low in the dryer. It works for me.
    I find the 3d towel Kleen foams a lot in my HE front loader. Maybe I`m using too much, but last time I used it my HE started throwing "too much foam error codes" and stopped running.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill D View Post
    I stopped using Charlie’s because it didn’t get my clothes, let alone my MFs,particularly clean..
    Same here, that was one lousy detergent IME, but with all the variables I do understand that it can work OK for others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RaydiantDetail View Post
    I find the 3d towel Kleen foams a lot in my HE front loader. Maybe I`m using too much, but last time I used it my HE started throwing "too much foam error codes" and stopped running.


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    My first time using it I had about 15 16x16 towels and put in 2 ounces of soap. The directions say don’t use more than 2 ounces in a load and I had a lot of sudsing and had to do multiple rinses. I backed it down to one ounce and I don’t have the sudsing problem anymore and the towels come clean as well as rinse clean. The only time I’ve used 2 ounces of towel kleen after the first time was when I had almost 50 towels in one load. That time no sudsing either. Ymmv of course

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    FWIW, I suspect most people use excess detergent most of the time. I was surprised how little it really takes to get stuff clean, even Detailing stuff (as long as you pretreat anything nasty).

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    Quote Originally Posted by PearTree View Post
    My first time using it I had about 15 16x16 towels and put in 2 ounces of soap. The directions say don’t use more than 2 ounces in a load and I had a lot of sudsing and had to do multiple rinses. I backed it down to one ounce and I don’t have the sudsing problem anymore and the towels come clean as well as rinse clean. The only time I’ve used 2 ounces of towel kleen after the first time was when I had almost 50 towels in one load. That time no sudsing either. Ymmv of course
    I imagine I went too crazy on the amount.
    Definitely user error on my part. I`ll try again with just 1oz and see how it does because i do agree it does work well after the sudsing and I still have a full jug of it.


    Accumulator- I have cut down on my use but I was guilty of using too much as well. Hence the extreme sudsing in my machine lol

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    Heh heh, well...I`ve causes some mighty, uhm...interesting...sudsing myself

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    Re: Help Cleaning Dirty Microfiber Wash Media After using ONR

    I wonder if some Dawn dish soap in the wash would loosen some of the grime from ONR microfibers. IMO, ONR leave some type of a residue on the surface. Personally, I find the Duragloss No Rinse car wash to be a superior product.

    Boiling water is 212 degrees F. If that doesn`t melt a towel, I can`t see how a washer at 130 or even 150 degrees could damage the fibers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wannafbody View Post
    I wonder if some Dawn dish soap in the wash would loosen some of the grime from ONR microfibers...
    IME Dawn doesn`t get such stuff out of MFs any better than it strips wax off cars. The old Power Dissolver isn`t bad but I gather it`s off the market.

    Boiling water is 212 degrees F. If that doesn`t melt a towel, I can`t see how a washer at 130 or even 150 degrees could damage the fibers.
    That`s what I`ve always figured! Some of my MFs come with instructions to "boil before use" (no, I never did that) and MFs used on the head of a steamer sure get exposed to heat, but....though I can`t explain it, when somebody here whom I consider credible says that Sanitary Cycle or the Dryer damaged his MFs...eh, I`ll at least add a "but OTOH.." type disclaimer from now on.

 

 
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