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Paulie Walnuts

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No matter what I do I cannot find a towel or cloth that will not leave lint behind. I finally got the haze off the tinted windows and Zainos glass polish today just made the windows on the outside look amazing. But no matter what towel I use I get lint. I have used ever type of MF, old t-shirts, towels made for glass you name it I STILL GET LINT or fibers. How do you get them lint / fiber free?
 
i've had good results with edgeless mf's to clean glass. also, take in consideration what other mf towels are being washed together, as some of the cheaper towels lint may transfer onto the other good mf towels when drying...
 
How about not using a towel? :) Throw some distilled water on the windows, then take a hair drier to them or something...
 
Boil your MF's that you use for the windows for at least 20 minutes @ a full boil. Not a simmer.



It's time consuming but after I realized how much hotter I can boil my towels. I actually had more wax/polish residue come out even after a towel was washed.



Lint should actually come to the surface of the water.



Dump the water out and then pull the towel out. Don't do it the other way or you'll infect the towel again.



Try it with one towel and see if it works.:D
 
newspaper will scratch the tint. I have always had tinted windows so with that comes the experience of caring for them and here's what works best. Buy yourself an "ABSORBER" that immitiation shammy sold just about everywhere now, they even sell a smaller version that is great for windows.



Because you have a the film tint you really shouldn't use chemicals on the tint. I know they say to just use those cleaners w/out ammonia but I have never used any type of chemical strictly water and the absorber. I know the film you're talking about and unless you constantly park your car indoors that film will come back over and over again (good idea to always leave the windows cracked a bit - helps a lot to reduce the film.



You'll see using the ABSORBER will solve all your problems, you can feel it griping that film right off the tint film. Sometimes I follow up with a terry towel to finalize the process, i get some lint but not so much that it bugs me, blows off when i drive with a window down.



One thing I did try was PLEXUS on the tint film, that works pretty good and makes the tint film anti-static so that may be an idea. I dont use PLEXUS always because it's a bit pricey to use as a window cleaner and I have good luck with the absorber. Every now & then it's not bad.
 
I've always had good luck with waffle-weave towels on windows. They clean well, absorb well, and for me at least, no lint.



FWIW,

Tort
 
I hear you man. I can't say I've ever found a towel that was truly lintless. Not even the praised Cobra WW .



However, I use the Cobra WW and the no-longer-sold WW from WAlmart on my windows. Works pretty well - lint is reduced to the point where its not really an issue at all.



The worst offenders of lint, I've found, are those purple plush Cobra towels. Plush towels almost always seem to leave lint behind, but the Cobra ones are pretty bad (my Meguiar's yellow plush one doesn't seem to have problems with lint).



But... if you really want lint, get some of those orange Vroom towels from target... LOL!
 
paul34 said:
and the no-longer-sold WW from WAlmart on my windows.
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Are you referring to the Mainstays waffle weave that most of us refer to when we say Walmart waffle weave mf? If so, are you positive they're no longer selling these? I haven't checked within the last few weeks, but I still remember seeing them not long ago. I know that recently the Walmarts around me have been rearranged for a more uniform layout across all stores, so if this is happening in your area too it could be possible that they haven't put it out or they put it in a different aisle temporarily.
 
paul34 said:
I hear you man. I can't say I've ever found a towel that was truly lintless. Not even the praised Cobra WW ...
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All my MFs eventually start to lint too, though I've never noticed it from the suede-style ones that CMA used to sell under "The Maxx" label (no longer on the market AFAIK).



I use them on the inside windows until they start to lint and then use them for winter window duty (nasty salt-stuff messes). In the absence of satisfactory MFs:



For lint-free cleaning, especially on the inside glass, I start with a cotton towel. The surgical huck towels don't leave any lint but they do leave a lot of window cleaner behind; cotton terry will leave a little lint, but less window cleaner- take your pick, both work OK for me for this intitial step. Then I follow up with Griot's Polypropylene Window Towels (pn 14910), which are a kinda super paper towel. I keep coming back to those...they're still my choice for the final passes on glass.
 
If you've tried every sort of MF towel you can then it's your product. MF by all rights should not leave behind any kind of fuzz or lint what so ever. While I've never seen it happen I would have to think since you've obviously switched out your towels enough that your product is somehow breaking down your towel or something.





Kind of like Spock on star trek. If you eleminate all other variables then the answer left before you no matter how illogical has to be the right one.
 
BlackElantraGT said:
Are you referring to the Mainstays waffle weave that most of us refer to when we say Walmart waffle weave mf? If so, are you positive they're no longer selling these? I haven't checked within the last few weeks, but I still remember seeing them not long ago. I know that recently the Walmarts around me have been rearranged for a more uniform layout across all stores, so if this is happening in your area too it could be possible that they haven't put it out or they put it in a different aisle temporarily.
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Perhaps! Where else do you think they'd put them besides the the aisle with all the hooks and kitchen towels? This gives me hope :D . I actually didn't even see an empty hook where it may have run out of stock last time I went. Bah.



Accumulator - that is true. Most towels do seem to "break down" a bit and start liniting a bit over time. Are some of those glass towels you refer to the "other" type of glass MF? As in, the ones that seem totally "smooth" and almost shiny? Do you know what I'm referring to? Almost like a thick sort of slik-ish material.
 
Jakerooni said:
MF by all rights should not leave behind any kind of fuzz or lint what so ever.
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It's not really fuzz or lint, it's, er...micro fibers. Extremely fine, short fibers that get stuck to the glass that you only see in the right light and are difficult to get off.
 
A couple of months ago I thought W-M had discontinued the white WW dishtowels since my normal store didn't have any. I then went to a couple more distant W-M's, one of which only had one or two packs, and then I went to another and pretty much cleaned them out. Embarrassingly, when I was back at my normal W-M a week or so later, they had restocked and had plenty :o
 
Setec Astronomy said:
It's not really fuzz or lint, it's, er...micro fibers. Extremely fine, short fibers that get stuck to the glass that you only see in the right light and are difficult to get off.
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Exactly correct. That is what I am experiencing.
 
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