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I don`t think MF washes well with laundry, usually gets lint from other clothes. Anyone tried putting MF in a mesh bag? Would that work?
e.g. Honey-Can-Do Mesh Wash Bag Set, 3-Piece, White: Amazon.ca: Home & Kitchen
Maybe this prevents the lint problem, and can wash with other clothes? I hate having to do a full cycle when I have only a few dirty towels
Wash them in a bucket.Quote:
Originally Posted by ybajwa
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Originally Posted by Legacy99
Have done that, but you end up using a fair amount of water rinsing them and machines are more efficient ... also would be a time saver
guess i can just try it and see what happens,
I would never wash MFs with cotton or other non-synthetic-MF textiles for exactly that reason- LINT. I don`t even wash my glass-MFs with (regular) plush MFs.
Try to purchase different colored towels for different uses.
Always wash microfibers by themselves and dry them on low heat by themselves.
Towels used for glass, same thing, by them selves so there is no cross contamination of dressings, waxes, etc onto the towels. (one of the main reasons for glass streaking)
Wax, polish towels, same thing, do them seperate from others, including the dryer.
"Grunge" towels, the ones that are too far gone for regular use, but good to wipe down engines, wheels, etc, get some "Rit" dye and dye them red, red means danger, and same thing, wash and dry seperate from all others.
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Originally Posted by Ron Ketcham
Agreed! I`m actually glad DI started carrying more towels and in different colors.
I now have:
- Light blue WW for drying & blue huck towels for glass
- White for polish/wax removal
- Green for leveling of coatings
- Gold/Black for Eraser/IPA wipe downs
- Black, blue, yellow for interior and various other tasks
All of the above are washed separately (5 loads). :)
When working, was also VP of Operations for our New Vehicle Processing shops.
Since we hired so many "monkey`s" that came and went, bought 8 big plastic tubs.
Had to paint some to make the "color code" work.
Red, Blue, Green and White.
One of each for clean towels, mounted on the wall above the same colored tub that were below them on the floor.
Red was for "grunge" towels
Green for paint micro fibers
Blue for blue surgical/huck towels
White for white terry cloth towels.
When the worker needed clean towels of any of them, had to walk over and put the dirty ones in the tub below the clean ones.
That kept towels from being thrown on the floor, etc and the tubs were also marked clearly as to what the towels in them were to be used for.
They had to go to them for clean ones, so no biggy to take the dirty`s and put them in the correct dirty towel tub.
Made it much easier as well for the washing of them, no sorting of towels.
If they didn`t do it, the manager would talk with them twice, then the next time a `write up" and three of those and out the door.
In a volume shop, time is money, and mistakes cost time which is money.
We have separate colors and loads as well.
we have white terry cotton towels, mostly used for door jams, engines, some wheels and also interiors
Light blue waffle weave/ blue huck towels for windows
Then our new colors coding for MF towels is going to be:
Yellow, polish/wax/sealant removal
Light Blue, Interior
Black, Exterior use
Then we have larger i think 20x20 or 20x16 Dark Blue MF for drying
That is miles beyond what most shops do, Shane.
Back when I was doing my thing, we had 30 so "monkey`s" working in a single shop, so took some real "brain not required" systems to make thing go somewhat trouble free.
Lol is that good or bad Ron?
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I now have:
blue huck towels for glass
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Rasky1--I too use Huck Towels for windows, but have not been able to find a source that has Huck towels in a manageble size say like 16 X 16. Do you know of any place that sells them in smaller sizes??
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^^^This, always wash separatelyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ron Ketcham
Nice to know I`m not the only OCD microfiber laundry person.
I have black ones and yellow ones. Washed them together one time and I freaked because the yellow ones had black lint on them.
Well, at least you found out that the black ones are prone to linting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ccrew