Are lint free towels just a myth ??

Mary B

Mary B

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I use Eagles, that`s as close as I`ve come to lint free.
Will be trying others, starting with :
Crazy Pile
Esoteric

would welcome any suggestions. Thanks
 
In my experience if you want a "lint free" you need to be going to an ultra-low/no-nap towel. Big puffy towels will almost always have some linting at some point in time. Nature of the beast.
 
Mary B said:
I use Eagles, that`s as close as I`ve come to lint free.
Will be trying others, starting with :
Crazy Pile
Esoteric

would welcome any suggestions. Thanks
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One thing about those eagles is that they do lint as they age. Forget about using them on glass. They lint regardless for that. Well at least for me. Other than that it is a good towel for rinseless washes.
 
As the fibers break down linting would seem to be inevitable. Which PBs towel doesn`t lint and why? I`m not saying there is a ton of lint, but it seems like when you drag a towel across a rough, dry surface it pulls some of the fibers out, e.g. linting. I agree, the lower the nap the less linting you will have.
 
Eventually, all of my plush MFs start to lint. Might do it when new, might take a looong time, but sooner or later they all do as they wear and start to shed fibers.

Some of my no-nap Glass MFs (always laundered seprarately) and all of my WWMFs do it too. If not when new, then eventually. The lint from those is *VERY* fine and I can imagine people not noticing it, but I see it and I won`t have it on my vehicles (those towels get demoted to household duty or really nasty jobs after which they get tossed).
 
Will be trying these CRAZY PILE`s.
They seem to stack up to Eagles.
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Mary B said:
I use Eagles, that`s as close as I`ve come to lint free.
Will be trying others, starting with :
Crazy Pile
Esoteric
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Mary .... any update on how the Esoteric & Crazy Pile towels performed in comparison to the Eagles?

Thanks!
 
The only time I ever have lint issues on towels is when they are longer nap and brand new so it was left over from towel production. You wash them and lint is gone. My old towels just die and do not do the job so the get repurposed to other tasks. IMHO lint issues is usually a towel quality or care problem. I`m not talking China vs Korea. I have plenty of Chinese towels that are fantastic. Towel care is the most important thing. Washing towels right after use is the most important thing. The longer polishes, compounds and other harsh chemicals sit in towels the more damage they will do to the synthetic fibers. I always have a dish pan with water and a small amount of APC mixed I use a 1/4 cup of Purple Power or less just enough to turn the color of the water purple this is my pre soak it`s just used to keep product from setting and drying. Every time a towel is spent while working it goes in the soak. I put everything mixed together no matter what the towel was used for. When it`s clean up time I wring them out dunked in a 5 gallon bucket of clean water wrung out again and in the washer they go with MF detergent. I do separate when washing but not by task, I do it by level of dirt.
Currently I am using CG MF wash. It has worked for me the best in a regular or HE washer. I tried a lot of them and it leaves my towels soft with a little bit of static charge in them after they are dried. It`s reasonably priced and available in gallons. It`s not the cheapest but it`s not the most expensive. I use warm water and two rinse cycles dry on low and my lint catch is always clean. If I still have what I deem as dirty towels after the wash I will mist them with a little OPC let them sit for 15 minutes then wash again with MF detergent.
Everyone has there own system that works for them, this is just mine that I developed over the years. I always believed that towel lint problems from brand new towels is manufacturing lint issues developing over time is towel care.
 
How do product residues cause damage to MF fibers if left unlaundered for a while? OK, different residues can be different, and mine hardly *EVER* have polish/etc. residues on them (though my MFs for buffing off such products are still fine after *many* years).

I don`t always wash/soak mine right away; although I sure don`t let stains set in my clothing I just don`t always apply the same diligence to my MFs. But I don`t see how that would cause them to lint...no obvious correlation between the ones that sit unwashed and the ones that lint/develop issues.

I had figured that letting Spray Wax/Drying Aid residues dwell on my MF Drying Towels would compromise their effectiveness, but so far it hasn`t caused issues for my Dry Me Crazys and I`ve had them for a few years now.

Not arguing at all, just curious whether there`s any explanation for why immediate soaking should make more of a diff for me than it does. Maybe the laundering that I do eventually do is just good and effective :D
 
There are more then just polish residue and oils left in a MF towel when you are polishing. You have spent abrasives , clear coat/paint residue, and dozens of other materials that were stuck on or in the paint that was just polished and wiped with a MF towel. All that stuff on a very small scale is going to start tearing away at the fibers. You can add up a list of things. Poor quality MF, use, exposure to chemicals and abrasives, poor care will end up killing MF down the line. Now if you are buying MF and it`s covered in lint from manufacturing after the first wash and dry and you still have lint get your money back. If you have been having lint issues with the same brand and towel type don`t buy them anymore. Eventually all MF towels will loose the characteristics and need to be retired. In the end lint MF issues is a combination of many things. The one you are most in control of is care. Washing, drying and storage.
 
I swear by `em. I have the bug mesh towels and the coral colored DMTs.

No lint, and they hold up incredibly well. Keep their softness even after repeated washes.

To be fair, I haven`t tried other offerings from Rag company and the like, but my Cobra Supreme 530s havent held up nearly as well.

Still swear by the Griots PFMs for drying though.

TMQ said:
Ok...Thanks.

So Poorboy`s towels that good?

Tom
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