Lint from MF Towels

I have always had lint and now that I’m considering a coating in the spring I am revisiting this.

Typically I wash with dye and scent free detergent and then air dry. Is the air dry where I go wrong?
 
jester7677 said:
I have always had lint and now that I’m considering a coating in the spring I am revisiting this.

Typically I wash with dye and scent free detergent and then air dry. Is the air dry where I go wrong?
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And Esoteric recently came out with a few no-lint items to help during coating:

https://youtu.be/F71FXJjQF3o

https://youtu.be/gR2uCEDEivE

I`ve used all 3 products and like them; had some linting/dusting issues while doing some coatings last summer...its infuriating. I seem to do better with low nap towels. Gyeon PolishWipe towels are a nice, low lint option as well:

https://www.autopia-carcare.com/gyeon-polishwipe-microfiber-towel.html
 
One thing that has helped me is using a lint roller on towels that I may be having an issue with. I just lay the towel on the opened dryer door and run the lint roller over each side before I put them into there plastic storage bin. This also helps with pulling up the nap of the towels.
 
I had similar issues with glass. What I found was..
Using my 16x24 Cobra WW drying towels to wash the glass, by spraying the towel not the glass.
Then use the Blue Korean Premium glass towels from TRC to wipe dry & buff.
Which helped with the lint because they are polyester, no pile type.
I also use PBs window cleaner on interior only. Fast drying, good scent, streak less, & no water repellent.
Same process for exterior but Pinnacle window cleaner for it`s water repellent.
Works every time.
 
For the last 10 years I`ve been using Surgical Huck towels for windows and never had a linting or smear issue. Huck towels are made of a very hard cotton weave with a "grain" to the knit pattern that really cuts through the film on interior windows and grime on the exterior.
 
In that YMMV vein...Noting that I basically don`t have any problems with windows or other glass surfaces, whenever I tried Surgical Huck Towels (including ones sent by a fellow Autopian.."you`ve gotta try these, they`re great!") I had terrible results and hated them. Basically created a problem where I`d never had one previously.

Meanwhile, others (whom I respect/believe/give credence to) continue to use them with complete satisfaction.
 
I have a friend who has a brother, I built AR15’s for both of these guys. The brother always wanted to pay me my time though I didn’t want reimbursement. He’s a surgical nurse. He said that the towels they take into the surgerical room are thrown out even if not used after every surgery. He brought me 250 new blue surgical hucks. I had always been told that they don’t lint on windows. I washed them all before using them. Mine linted up windows like crazy. They were truly horrible for this purpose. Made me wonder what they were used for on a patient and if the lint was a problem. They make fine oil change or otherwise disposable towels.

I’ve had good luck with several other types of towels. The Ulitimate Cloth, Arctic White Waffle Weave Glass towels and Griot’s PFM Dual Weave Glass Towels all have a place in my collection. Oddly when one doesn’t quite seem to be cutting it one of the others does.
 
jrock645 said:
My edgeless towels from TRC seem to lint more than other towels
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Agreed. I only use them now for Rinseless washes. Too bad too because they are just so damn soft.

I use the blue Rag Co towels you linked to actually clean the glass. For a final wipe down/buffing of the windows, I use blue Rag Co waffle weaves - although I wish they were 16 x 16 since they are a little big to clean the windshield down near the dashboard.

I`m w Accumulator. I think all MF towels eventually do lint. When I see one is linting, I just demote it to a utility towel for engine cleaning, door jams, wheels etc. I given up fighting towels that lint. That just gives me an excuse to try another type of towel. I just bought a few DMT`s from Poorboys to test out although I haven`t used them yet. Both Dwayne and Steve assured me they don`t lint (w proper care). We shall see....

If I could afford it - I would replace ALL my MF`s w the Griots PFM towels. Best MF ever made in my opinion.
 
ShawnF350 kindly sent me some Towel Pro Glass towels 2 years ago:

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These things are great, absolutely no lint, bought some more, it`s flat woven, so there is no lint on the towel, so nothing to come off.
 
GearHead_1 said:
..when one doesn’t quite seem to be cutting it one of the others does.
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Yeah, I have a few different ones and that`s my experience too (though I pretty much always finish up with the GG Polypropylene Wipes).

I still prefer cotton terry (i.e., a "regular high-quality cotton towel") for the initial passes on exterior glass, especially in the winter when I`m cleaning off salt/etc. every day. Never use `em on the interior glass surfaces as the cotton lint sticks too tenaciously to the window seals/etc.
 
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