Anyone Tried The Rag Company`s New "The Gauntlet" Microfiber Drying Towel??

[Setec Astronomy]

I`m 100% satisfied with my Dry Me Crazy MFs, but I`m still curious about what makes that twin-weave "feature" desirable?

Because it`s new! And different!

To be completely cynical...when I came to the detailing forum world I found my cotton terry towels were passe, and I had to have waffle weave drying towels. So I bought a lot of them. Along with a lot of other terry MF for other things. Then for a bit, waffle weaves were passe, and the drying towel to have was a giant plush terry microfiber. Then came the twist pile towels...then it was "have we exhausted the ways to make people buy towels? we can`t go back to waffle weave...wait! Let`s make a furry waffle weave and call it the Pluffle!" So...how can they make people go from Pluffles to something else? Let`s take a twist-fiber towel and stripe it with terry!

Or maybe the pitch is "can`t decide what style of drying towel to buy? Torn between a waffle weave and a plush? Here`s a Pluffle! Torn between a twist-fiber and a plush? here`s a Gauntlet! If you can`t decide between ice cream and cake, here`s a Baked Alaska! Can`t decide between a donut and a cookie? Here`s a deep-fried Oreo!

It`s like how ties went from dots to stripes to wide to flowers to birds to dots to stripes to narrow...I can just hang on to all the ties I`ve ever bought AND the ones I inherited from my father and they will all go in and out of style if I wait long enough.

 

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Setec Astronomy- That "gee, it`s new and different" is about what I thought too.

I will say that I never liked the idea of WWMFs for drying, always wanting a very plush towel with somewhat long (and unlooped) nap. I just don`t feel there`s much margin for error with a WW if/when a speck of abrasive [stuff] gets between it and the vehicle. And my WWMFs always quit working well while the DMC is lasting much longer (in the functional sense).

Is the Dry Me Crazy like the Rag Company`s Everest towel?

The blend is a little different and the DMC is apparently a little heavier..but I think they`re about the same.

One of the things I really like about the DMC is that it does *NOT* have "loops". I gather the Everest doesn`t either, but I`ve never actually seen one to know for sure.

 

[Coatings=crack]

Setec Astronomy- That "gee, it`s new and different" is about what I thought too.

I will say that I never liked the idea of WWMFs for drying, always wanting a very plush towel with somewhat long (and unlooped) nap. I just don`t feel there`s much margin for error with a WW if/when a speck of abrasive [stuff] gets between it and the vehicle. And my WWMFs always quit working well while the DMC is lasting much longer (in the functional sense).



The blend is a little different and the DMC is apparently a little heavier..but I think they`re about the same.

One of the things I really like about the DMC is that it does *NOT* have "loops". I gather the Everest doesn`t either, but I`ve never actually seen one to know for sure.

The Everest is a plush towel. Not as loose as Eagle Edgeless


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The Everest is a plush towel. Not as loose as Eagle Edgeless

Yeah, I might consider something like that next time I`m replacing `em, though I don`t expect that to be for many years.

Yeah#2 I have what I *think* is an Eagle Edgeless (freebie from....?somebody?..looks like one) and like my (linty) Shamrocks, it`s a pretty "loose" towel for its GSM, much more so than any of my made-specifically-for-drying ones.

The DMC is more like my...oh, what`s it called?...eh, can`t recall ...the earliest double-layer/ultra-thick flush white MFs. Those (still) lint quite a bit too, but are fine for Drying Aid-assisted final wipedowns and I assume would be OK as regular Drying Towels too. What *are* those called?!? It`ll probably come to me as soon as I log off...

 

[Coatings=crack]

I have yet to have an EE lint on me although I only use for waterless and rinseless. The Everest don’t lint and I use for topper and sealant. I’m not a fan of TRC because of issues i’ve had with them but for me the sell some awesome towels.

I like the pluffles when applying sealants wet after washes...


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[kjeeper]

Anyone Tried The Rag Company`s New "The Gauntlet" Microfiber Drying Towel??

Got my Chipmunks. Slightly thicker towel. Seems the soft stripes are not as long as the Gauntlets. The border is unique.. soft MF’r but the way its woven is cool.
Seemed to worked pretty good on a test panel.

Currently in dryer, will get pics soon.

Edit: i just noticed my Gauntlet 12x12 actually measures 11x11 ish.
Chipmunk seemed huge compared to it .. measures right at 16x16.

 

[kjeeper]

 

[kjeeper]

I have yet to have an EE lint on me although I only use for waterless and rinseless. The Everest don’t lint and I use for topper and sealant. I’m not a fan of TRC because of issues i’ve had with them but for me the sell some awesome towels.

I like the pluffles when applying sealants wet after washes...


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Pluffle sucks as a straight drying towel.
Ive been using as a final buff with a WW or using a drying aid w/ a RW.

 

[Coatings=crack]

Pluffle sucks as a straight drying towel.
Ive been using as a final buff with a WW or using a drying aid w/ a RW.

Yeah mine sucked at first too but using them to dry with cosmic or overcoat seems to dry it up no problem. Maybe because products hydrophobics?


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[kjeeper]

Yeah mine sucked at first too but using them to dry with cosmic or overcoat seems to dry it up no problem. Maybe because products hydrophobics?


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A true waffle weave or Twist loop are the most absorbent towels. The Pluffle towel is 0 waffle weave. Its just a soft, longer pile towel with pockets. It tends to push water around like a regular longer pile towel like the EE.

Plus its thinness does not absorb a lot of water.
Its one if my favorite towels but not for drying. Ive been meaning to try with a RW.

 

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A true waffle weave or Twist loop are the most absorbent towels..

Different experience here. While I`ve never done a properly objective test, even my best WWMFs don`t dry any better, if as well, as my non-twisted-loop MF Drying Towels. Whenever I`ve dried with the looped ones (e.g., the PFMs for Glass which I realize aren`t made for regular drying), they didn`t dry as well as my DMC. All-in-all, the DMC seem 100% perfect to me other than the linting. My best WWMF doesn`t lint, but it doesn`t dry as well and needs more applied pressure in some instances.

Eh, I hope that doesn`t sound like I`m arguing, just that my experiences are different.

 

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I have yet to have an EE lint on me although I only use for waterless and rinseless...

I wonder if they do lint, just not enough to be obvious. Eh, not implying you`re careless/etc. by any means, and/but it seems that Linting Experiences with the EE are all over the map.

The Everest don’t lint and I use for topper and sealant...

Ah, interesting! How are they for Drying?

I’m not a fan of TRC because of issues i’ve had with them..

Now that`s interesing too! My experiences with them have been great. Hmm...hope I didn`t just jinx that!

 

[kjeeper]

I wonder if they do lint, just not enough to be obvious. Eh, not implying you`re careless/etc. by any means, and/but it seems that Linting Experiences with the EE are all over the map.



Ah, interesting! How are they for Drying?



Now that`s interesing too! My experiences with them have been great. Hmm...hope I didn`t just jinx that!

My orange EE lint a little. I have a similar towel from Carecarez (yellow) that i really like for RW’s (coral weave MF). They lint a ton if i use for drying or sealant removal.

Actually, drying my towels in a dryer on low heat helped with lint a lot.

 

[kjeeper]

Different experience here. While I`ve never done a properly objective test, even my best WWMFs don`t dry any better, if as well, as my non-twisted-loop MF Drying Towels. Whenever I`ve dried with the looped ones (e.g., the PFMs for Glass which I realize aren`t made for regular drying), they didn`t dry as well as my DMC. All-in-all, the DMC seem 100% perfect to me other than the linting. My best WWMF doesn`t lint, but it doesn`t dry as well and needs more applied pressure in some instances.

Eh, I hope that doesn`t sound like I`m arguing, just that my experiences are different.

Actually my very first towel was the CG’s wooly mammoth. Dries great but its a bulky towel. I just prefer 1 or 2 smaller towels. One in each hand .. move around the car rather quickly.

I like my twist loop 16x16 towels haha

 

[Coatings=crack]

Anyone Tried The Rag Company`s New "The Gauntlet" Microfiber Drying Towel??

I wonder if they do lint, just not enough to be obvious. Eh, not implying you`re careless/etc. by any means, and/but it seems that Linting Experiences with the EE are all over the map.

Yeah may be that theirs a little lint after washing but drying with PFM removes?

Ah, interesting! How are they for Drying?

Never actually tried but I’d assume not to good. Low pyle wrong nap

Now that`s interesing too! My experiences with them have been great. Hmm...hope I didn`t just jinx that!

It was CS with an IK foamer. They were very dismissive about a warranty issue.

I’ll only buy their towels now. All other products i can get elsewhere and will. If i find better towels than the Eagle’s and Everest from some one else ill probably do that.

Found some interesting ones for the EE but for removing and appling toppers sealants i just love the Everest

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kjeeper- I sure agree with you on the sizing, I`d much rather use a few smaller ones than those big things.

 

[kjeeper]

I just used the 16x16 Chipmunk on my jeep. Worked pretty good. I did follow with a FTW since i was using a drying aid.

 

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Coatings=crack- Ah, OK, yeah..bad CS can leave an awful taste! I`ve never bought anything from TRC except towels.

This thread has me wondering whether I`ll ever replace many of my MFs and if so what I`ll do..there are a lot of choices these days. Other than the ones I use for household stuff, mine last a long, long time. Some of my original ones from the early `90s are still just fine.

 

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I just used the 16x16 Chipmunk on my jeep. Worked pretty good...

Hmm..."pretty good" rather than "incredibly well"/etc.

Did not know there was even such a thing as LFM Sucker or Autofiber Dreadnaught microfiber drying towels..

Me either. And speaking of feeling out-of-touch...

I did follow with a FTW since i was using a drying aid.

What`s a "FTW"?

 

[Bill D]

I think I still have every premium MF I ever bought too. They do last for quite some time. I was lucky to only have one batch of bad, linting ones for the entire history of my purchasing them and with that I still kept them for non detailing stuff.