Drop a microfiber, banish it forever?

[JustinR32]

I'm starting to think so.



When I drop a microfiber towel it almost always picks up not just dust and dirt, but also vegetable matter; pieces of leaves and slivers of wood. The dust and dirt wash out in the washer, but the leaf pieces stick to the towels and generally pollute the whole batch. They stick through wash and dry cycles, no matter how many rinses, and picking the pieces off by hand can be tedious and there's no guarantee that it will be complete.



Right now, if they aren't too bad I pick the leaf pieces off and wash them, but if they're all over the towel I pitch the thing. I've thought about laying the towel out and vacuuming the leaf pieces off with my VacnBlo.



What do you folks do?





Tom

 

[EBPcivicsi]

I just chunk them OR demote them to a general purpose towel reserved for door jams and engines. One thing is for sure, the NEVER touch the paint again.



I have about 60 new MF's coming my way thanks to the Meguiars Katrina relief ebay page.

 

[JPS911]

Ebay microfiber Katrina...huh?

 

[EBPcivicsi]

Ebay microfiber Katrina...huh?

http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=62036

 

[JustinR32]

I just chunk them OR demote them to a general purpose towel reserved for door jams and engines. One thing is for sure, the NEVER touch the paint again.



I have about 60 new MF's coming my way thanks to the Meguiars Katrina relief ebay page.

Hehe, I have a few coming that way, too.



It irks me when I drop a DF Elite. That's a heck of a towel, and I only got 5 of them. Ultimates are great, but Elites do a different job.





Tom

 

[JeffM]

I never thought about chucking a towel if i drop it, but a pad...



I found out the hard way what happens when you re use a pad that lands face first.



P.S. Yes i did wash it out. I thought i did a good job too....

 

[atticdog]

They even have some #16 available

 

[White95Max]

I'm with ebp, if I drop one, it gets demoted to grunge work.

 

[Mazz]

Machine Wash them.

 

[JustinR32]

I've always done that, Mazz. Problem is, if you have bits of dead leaves, they pollute the entire washload. Sometimes I have as many as 20 or 30 towels to do. If you pick them off that's cool, but there are always little bits stuck to the towels.





Tom

 

[imported_Bence]

Pressure washing will evacuate anything from them...



...just don't hold the lance too close to tear the towel.

 

[littlejohn]

pardon my ignorance... but how good are these "ültimate" towels? are they good enough for polishing / waxing..

 

[imported_Sullybob]

I thought I was the only one who had this problem. I have a MF that I dropped and I simly can not get it clean.

I have been using it for my rims.

 

[Mazz]

I can see what your saying. Sometime you might just have to put that one towel or two aside for their own load. We dont face many problems with dropping them on leaves what I try to do if there is a good amount of junk on the driveway/pavement we are detailing on it take out the air compressor or pressure washer and clear the area around the car first. This helps clear anything off the shoes also.