Cleaning and Preening my Boars Hair

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DuMouixe

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Share your stories here about getting your new boars hair bristle wash brush ready for use.



Mines seemed a bit course, and I performed small corrections on it, nothing major.



I am also thinking about conditioning its nap prior to use.



Should I just use it on my beater a few times, to break it in?
 
All I do is a) inspect it for glue on the bristles or other obvious issues b) test it *wet with shampoo solution* on the data side of a CD.



Note that it'll feel a *lot* softer after it's soaked in the shampoo mix, just like a sheepskin mitt does. Don't worry about how coarse it feels when it's dry, it's how it behaves when wet that counts.
 
You'll have to let us all know how you like it. I'm kind of scepticle myself...but not closed minded. Please share your results :)
 
Accumulator said:
All I do is a) inspect it for glue on the bristles or other obvious issues b) test it *wet with shampoo solution* on the data side of a CD.



Note that it'll feel a *lot* softer after it's soaked in the shampoo mix, just like a sheepskin mitt does. Don't worry about how coarse it feels when it's dry, it's how it behaves when wet that counts.
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Thanks, I had totally forgotten about the CD test. That'll be the feedback, thank you.



It's fun to use. I tried it on the wheel faces and rear wheel skirts. Suds up nice, holds alot of suds and rinses instantly. Definitely seems to be safer than a mit, in the sense that it is more readily able to accomidate free flowing liquids. No way to confirm that, but it makes sense.



I'll be on swirl watch.



Just bought some HiVal Car Wash Concentrate to try out today for a buck, unfortunately I just washed the car yesterday. Ever heard of that stuff? It was so cheap, I thought, if it's junk, I can use it on the shrubs to keep down the insects.
 
DuMouixe said:
Just bought some HiVal Car Wash Concentrate to try out today for a buck, unfortunately I just washed the car yesterday. Ever heard of that stuff?
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Nope, never tried it. I've only been using high-lubricity shampoos for the last, oh, 15 years or so, ever since I discovered how well they lessen the incidence of marring.



blackf0rk- Assuming a BHB passes the CD-test or is otherwise shown to be nonabrasive on auto paint, it's just a matter of how you use it. I'm as fanatical about wash-induced marring as anybody can be and used properly (that's the big thing) a high-quality BHB won't mar paint.



Used *improperly* IMO it's probably not worse than a mitt. I know people who wash with BHBs in a careless manner, and their vehicles aren't any more marred up than they were when the same people used mitts. If you press dirt against the paint and move it around you'll get marring no matter what you use, but at least the BHBs rinse clean (to an extent you have to experience to believe).
 
So, with BHB's you more or less "brush" away the dirt? With a mit, you'd have to swipe once, rinse, swipe, rinse etc.
 
blackf0rk- Yeah, the idea is that you use the least contact/most gentle contact possible to dislodge the dirt, with jus the tips of the bristles. The open nature of the BHB lets the suds from the foamgun flow through very well, it's *almost* self-rinsing that way by my standards and might be self-rinsing by other people's standards. My rinse bucket sure doesn't have much dirt in it at the end of a wash.



IMO it's important to just "jiggle" the BHB so that any marring that occurs is tiny and not some big inches-long scratch like you'd get if you just swiped away with it the way most people probably would. It's easy (and thus tempting) to do it that way...



You jiggle the BHB across the panel, sorta "rocking" it maybe, while you spray suds up and down its length near where the tips of the bristles touch the paint.



As this is *very* gentle, I'll usually follow up with a mitt (and the foamgun). But a) you might not need to, and b) if you *do* do this, the BHB method should've gotten most of the bigger, more abrasive bits of dirt off the paint safely.
 
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