What are you cleaning?!
Washing Microfiber Cloths
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JHZR2
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If it’s oil and grease. Where do you think it goes?
I made the mistake of washing some shop rags in the washer one time. They weren't heavily soiled, but man oh man did I do a number on our washer. I had to run load after load filled with old jeans until it stopped smelling like old grease.
How many days were you in the dog house for that?
A good part of my rag bag consists of old, worn out clothes and other fabric scraps that is used and then disposed of. Otherwise, I use a lot of paper towels.
The stuff I do wear while wrenching, and want to keep, I pre-soak and work over by hand in a bucket, and then launder by itself, never with anything else.
Down the drain.
I throw out the bad ones, not like I'm putting 5lbs of grease through the wash.
Patman
Staff member
Call me crazy but I never reuse my microfiber cloths. I just toss them out after they get dirty. I buy them in bulk from Costco or Walmart so they don't cost that much anyways.
Zee09
$200 Site Donor 2023
Daddy warbucks iver here. I still have some in circulation that I bought in 2009
I would never put MF towels or anything else contaminated with oil or grease in my washing machine. I only use high quality MF towels to wash my vehicles. When I apply something like a ceramic or graphene coating I use those little MF pads and throw them away after the application of such products. The towels are usually only used to dry and clean glass.
There are plenty of good YouTube videos showing the proper way to wash MF towels, essentially only use liquid detergent, maybe add some white vinegar, give them two rinse cycles and avoid high drying heat. It's not rocket surgery.
There are plenty of good YouTube videos showing the proper way to wash MF towels, essentially only use liquid detergent, maybe add some white vinegar, give them two rinse cycles and avoid high drying heat. It's not rocket surgery.
I use a splash of simple green, unscented detergent and Adams car care microfiber rejuvenate
I don't wash rags any more. There's a thrift store that sells big bundles of dish and bath towels for a couple of bucks. I cut them up a and chuck them when they're dirty. I buy microfiber towels from harbor freight on the rare occasion that I need them.
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For my pricier detailing towels and rags, pretty much exactly what I use, always washed on their own and hung dry. Only diff is the brand of microfiber detergent I use. Come out like new everytime.
The cheap ones I use for oil and stuff I just use until they're too gross and throw away. Have a subscribe and save auto delivery setup, I currently have like 100+ brand new unopened. Don't miss a few. Lol.
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
Washed one the other day. It came out great. Nothing special done, washed with jeans and sweatshirts. no fabric softener used. Very soft when it dried.
JHZR2
Staff member
There are still residues of grease and oil. Sure the soaps help liquify and disperse some of it, but residues can remain. And then they will transfer into other materials.
Maybe, but no worse than what's in my clothes anyhow.
Certainly not throwing away a shirt or pants everytime I get an oil or diesel bath.
