I've have a nice collection of adam's microfibers, and they've been good to me over the last few years. Slowly I've noticed most of my towels would start 'sticking' , if thats the right word for it, to the paint. Say you take a single soft mf and put the weight of your hand on it, mist a panel with detail spray, and the towel wants to stick and jerk and not slide nicely over it. You have to actually 'pull' the towel across the surfaces as if it were a squeege almost, and if you get it in the light right you'll see tiny bits of lint or fibers left behind.
I've had this happen with almost all of my towels now over the past year. I always washed them with the free & gentle liquid detergent on warm (as was prev. recommended) and have picked up a bottle of adams mf rejuvenator that I've slowly been switching to as well (I'll go back to the other one if I'm out of adams rejuv). I always dry on cool or hang dry if its a nicer day.
I started noticing this last summer, and after some reading I thought it was wax or polishing compound building up in everything causing this. So I tried adding vinegar to the wash cycle a few times, didn't seem to make any difference. I then tried soaking 5-10 towels in boiling water, and it didn't seem to help those towels either, maybe I just did it wrong, not sure.
So I assumed the towels were just getting old, and started buying new ones. My oldest adam's towels are probably 3-4 years old, and I'd assume washed maybe 30 times or so.
So I thought everything was fine and dandy, just had old towels that needed replaced.
But what really got me thinking something in my routine is off, is I just picked up 5 of the new glass towels ( These ) just a month or so ago, and I've washed them maybe 3-4 times and they're starting to do the same thing. I'm at a loss here guys, any suggestions are appreciated.
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dyn0mitemat
Hey guys,
I've have a nice collection of adam's microfibers, and they've been good to me over the last few years. Slowly I've noticed most of my towels would start 'sticking' , if thats the right word for it, to the paint. Say you take a single soft mf and put the weight of your hand on it, mist a panel with detail spray, and the towel wants to stick and jerk and not slide nicely over it. You have to actually 'pull' the towel across the surfaces as if it were a squeege almost, and if you get it in the light right you'll see tiny bits of lint or fibers left behind.
I've had this happen with almost all of my towels now over the past year. I always washed them with the free & gentle liquid detergent on warm (as was prev. recommended) and have picked up a bottle of adams mf rejuvenator that I've slowly been switching to as well (I'll go back to the other one if I'm out of adams rejuv). I always dry on cool or hang dry if its a nicer day.
I started noticing this last summer, and after some reading I thought it was wax or polishing compound building up in everything causing this. So I tried adding vinegar to the wash cycle a few times, didn't seem to make any difference. I then tried soaking 5-10 towels in boiling water, and it didn't seem to help those towels either, maybe I just did it wrong, not sure.
So I assumed the towels were just getting old, and started buying new ones. My oldest adam's towels are probably 3-4 years old, and I'd assume washed maybe 30 times or so.
So I thought everything was fine and dandy, just had old towels that needed replaced.
But what really got me thinking something in my routine is off, is I just picked up 5 of the new glass towels ( These ) just a month or so ago, and I've washed them maybe 3-4 times and they're starting to do the same thing. I'm at a loss here guys, any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks
-Mat
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