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Barry Theal

Barry Theal

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about a year ago i did a car for a guy who was a chemist. he was your average car guy, who waxed his car and washed it lol i spent sevral hours teaching him the basics afeter his car was finished. anyway make a long story shot he was a chemist. real smart yet stupid type. he asked me about microfiber towels. what kind i use and so on. well he bought some washed and ruined so later it turned him onto firguring out how to wash them on his own! being a chemist he looked into wax breakdown and truly whats on a microfiber. this ounds crazy i know but im one of the common sense guys. not the astronaut type! he found that washing microfibers with vinigar prolongs the life and also get the wax aout of them so i tried it. and boom been doing it for a year now and found my micros last alot longer even with the cheaper costco ones! just thought i'd pass on the advice for others to try!:cooleek:
 
I add the vinegar to my washer's bleach dispenser and fabric softener dispenser so it gets the vinegar treatment in both cycles. Works well.
 
DFTowel (where is he these days anyhow?) posted some good info about using vinegar, might be worth the dreaded search. IIRC he said to add a teaspoon per towel but that never made great sense to me as I'd base it on how much *water* is being used since the dilution seems like the main thing :confused: Now that I've made it clear as mud:



-With the washer that lets me select the water level I add a few ounces (by eye) to the fabric softener dispenser and I use the half-way water level setting



-With the HE washer that sets its own water level I use less, maybe one oz. max and probably less



I don't use it in the regular wash cycle (with detergent) as making the water more acidic is generally *detrimental* when it comes to getting stuff clean in the laundry. I'll add it to a *detergentless* wash cycle when I'm doing that to effect a super-rinse (works well with the HE washer's sanitary cycle using very hot water).



I do add it in the rinse to provide softening and better rinsing out of any residual detergent (this last bit is sorta the flip side to why I don't use it in the wash cycle).



(The above is not intended as an :argue :nono at those who are happy using it differently.)
 
Great. One more car thing I'm gonna yelled at for doing with our household appliances...
 
Accumulator said:
DFTowel (where is he these days anyhow?) posted some good info about using vinegar, might be worth the dreaded search. IIRC he said to add a teaspoon per towel but that never made great sense to me as I'd base it on how much *water* is being used since the dilution seems like the main thing :confused: Now that I've made it clear as mud:



-With the washer that lets me select the water level I add a few ounces (by eye) to the fabric softener dispenser and I use the half-way water level setting



-With the HE washer that sets its own water level I use less, maybe one oz. max and probably less



I don't use it in the regular wash cycle (with detergent) as making the water more acidic is generally *detrimental* when it comes to getting stuff clean in the laundry. I'll add it to a *detergentless* wash cycle when I'm doing that to effect a super-rinse (works well with the HE washer's sanitary cycle using very hot water).



I do add it in the rinse to provide softening and better rinsing out of any residual detergent (this last bit is sorta the flip side to why I don't use it in the wash cycle).



(The above is not intended as an :argue :nono at those who are happy using it differently.)
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That is a very good point. I think I'll quit putting it in the bleach dispenser, and just put it in the fabric softener dispenser instead. I use 1/3 cup in my whirlpool front loader, fwiw.
 
SuperBee364 said:
That is a very good point. I think I'll quit putting it in the bleach dispenser, and just put it in the fabric softener dispenser instead. I use 1/3 cup in my whirlpool front loader, fwiw.
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When I did the research on this months ago, the threads all suggested that the point of vinegar is to remove any remaining detergent, so, like Accumulator said, do it in the "detergentless" cycle, or rinse cycle.



I recall having read a post by another laundry authority (froget now who) which said that if you use too much vinegar, it'll have a similar effect on the towels as fabric softener, so err on the side of less.
 
jedovaty said:
..I recall having read a post by another laundry authority (froget now who) which said that if you use too much vinegar, it'll have a similar effect on the towels as fabric softener, so err on the side of less.
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Yeah, IIRC, that was initially brought up by Ranney at PakShack (who oughta know from MF) and there was some link to wikie or somesuch where the concept was explained.



Hasn't been an issue for me, but then I'm not using all that much of the stuff either.
 
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