Sonus towels... it says to dry on medium heat...

trhland said:
why do they say on the towels no high heat
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I swear to God I was just about to ask a question about this very subject. I am literally minutes removed from taking 8 vroom towels (the orange ones from Target) out of the dryer. I noticed that at least two of them had "hard spots." I thought that they picked up a piece of grass or some broken leaves from the garage and I would just pick out the contaminates. But upon closer inspection, I didnt find anything except harder fibers that look a little darker in color. I believe that my dryer caused an extreme hot spot and melted a couple of spots on those towels.:cry:

I havent looked under a microscope or even under great lighting, but I am not going to use the same heat setting next time:nomore:

So that is why I say on the towels "no high heat." Do they actually say that? I need to pay more attention to the details while detailing.
 
Was it a gas or electric dryer?



EDIT: Let's think about this logically...if polyester melts at 500°F, and I don't think a clothes iron gets that hot, but a clothes iron can scorch cotton clothes, then if your dryer got hot enough to melt polyester, it would also get hot enough to scorch/melt/ruin your other clothes, wouldn't it?
 
TwinTowers said:
It was an electric dryer that melted my towels.:wow:
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Pictures?



Personally, my electric dryer which I've had forever, has never gotten hot enough anywhere to even burn my hand, much less melt any plastics. There's a rotating drum, behind which is an electric heating element...the only way I could see to develop a local hot spot would be for the element to touch the drum...which would then be rubbing while the drum rotates, causing noise/wear, not to mention a short circuit to the drum.



Are you sure the towels weren't that way from the beginning? I have noted some wide quality variations on the Vroom towels (I have a fair number of different types). Also keep in mind that the towels are cut from larger rolls at the factory, and may have the edges heat sealed as part of the binding process; perhaps some melted fabric dripped onto the surface of the towel at that time.
 
maybe some residual wash cycle fabric softener (wax glob) from a previous wash got on your towels during this wash. my washer has dispenser in the center that I remove so left over junk doesnt get on my towels. It can build up when the wife or girlfriend is a Downy addict.
 
Im pretty confident that the towels were completely soft before the dryer. Ive washed them twice now, but this was my first time in the dryer. This 500 degrees that keeps being referred to...is that a burning point? Is it a melting point? Im not sure that the microfibers actually melted or not, I think they just shrunk away from the heat causing a firm spot on the towel (maybe that is what melting is).:aww:
 
I have to laugh, I really do... after having shown the numbers to you some people still insist that the dryer melted the towsl and continue to question it. What part of a 360 degree difference between the hotest a dryer gets and the melting point of polyester don't you understand? This is like an urban legend that no matter how much proof you're shown you still believe in it. So, I'll say this one last time and not bother with it any more... A DRYER WILL NOT MELT YOUR POLYESTER TOWELS!



Twin Towers... If you still claim it did then show pictures and proof, I guarantee you can't.
 
TwinTowers said:
Im pretty confident that the towels were completely soft before the dryer. Ive washed them twice now, but this was my first time in the dryer. This 500 degrees that keeps being referred to...is that a burning point? Is it a melting point? Im not sure that the microfibers actually melted or not, I think they just shrunk away from the heat causing a firm spot on the towel (maybe that is what melting is).:aww:
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I thought this had happened once to one of my MF towels, but after thinking about it I realised that I must have used the MF with some kind of chemical that damaged the fibers. It has also never happened since when drying MF's.



Once I also damaged a MF when using it to clean a pad spinning on the rotary, I also first noticed this damage after washing/drying. Cleaning pads this way works fine with a cotton terry towel, but not with a MF I now know ;)
 
after many beers and hours of football, I took my pile of dirty towels I use for rims and dirty work and threw them in the wash. Poured in some tide and simple green, put the machine on HOT, and had another beer. Put them in the dryer on HIGH, and had another beer. Pulled them out of the dryer and they were fluffy. LOL LOL.
 
DFTowel said:
I have to laugh, I really do... after having shown the numbers to you some people still insist that the dryer melted the towsl and continue to question it. What part of a 360 degree difference between the hotest a dryer gets and the melting point of polyester don't you understand? This is like an urban legend that no matter how much proof you're shown you still believe in it. So, I'll say this one last time and not bother with it any more... A DRYER WILL NOT MELT YOUR POLYESTER TOWELS!



Twin Towers... If you still claim it did then show pictures and proof, I guarantee you can't.
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From my end of this message, you need to chill out. It appears you are in DEFENSE MODE! I apologize if I mistook this reply's intentions, but laughing and demanding proof from pictures is a bit silly. If you dont want me to "claim" a dryer melted my towels, then you win. It wasnt the dryer.
 
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