With the amount of towels you have, I don't think Costco has enough lint rollers for you :props:
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Sticky yellow rollers? Not too familiar with those. Could you PM and online link?
Interested in trying them out.
Imagine buying a pallet full of rollers. lol
The sticky, washable, reusable ones. Most are blue, but some are yellow or red. The most famous one is The Shticky, as seen on tv. I always thought they were made of silicone, but I honestly don't know.
yeah mine came from Bed, Bath and Beyond. mine are called Sticky Buddy, i believe. i had a bunch of coupons and there was a sale so i got a few. at the time, there weren't a huge amount of these things out there but i'd guess it's been ripped off a thousand times so there might be super cheap ones that work just as well.
at first i was bitter because i thought you just had to rinse them and they'd be renewed. which, to a certain extent, is true. but to really renew them, and it even says in the directions i failed to read, that every once in a while to totally refresh them, wipe with a soapy sponge and rinse. that changed my whole outlook. they work AMAZINGLY.
I lick my towels to taste test for foreign substances
I call it, "The Lick Method" or TLM
BOOM....Copyright that!
I agree with A4S, that the naming may be getting out of hand.
If a technique has been in practice for a substantial amount of time and someone comes along and tags it with their name, it's a bit hokey to me. People have been applying less pressure on the last couple of polishing passes as long as DA's have been in use.
Finish Polishing is "Jeweling" is "Burnishing"
I understand that the 1st step to becoming "known" is having something named after you.
Some are truly new and deserve a "name", others are common practice and do not
Something like this?
Schticky commercial [OFFICIAL] - YouTube
Mike, I'm not surprised you do that at all. I think we're all a bit OCD with our towels. When you consider how bad they (most) tend to lint, that's a great idea. I saw something a while back on TV where someone was giving cleaning tips, removing pet hair, and used duct tape rolled around their hand. I'm thinking that'd be a quite a bit more effective than our typical lint roller. :dunno:
I noticed yesterday that even the very nice 850 "white whale" and the lesser "artic white" towels still shed, even though I've washed them twice before using (with WG Microfiber Restorer/Detergent). (Tried them new and it was TERRIBLE.)
I tend to get my washer and dryer drunk before ever loading any towels inside. I wipe them down (stainless drums) with a 30% alcohol solution. BOY DOES IT GET FUNKY WITH YOUR HEAD INSIDE. :help:
Surely I need to think up a name for that one. ;)
That's an honest comment James hahaha, although I rinse and clean washer / dryer before cleaning MF towels (that's boring but much needed), with time some towels may accumulate more than what our eyes can see and shed some lint.
Thanks Mike for coming with this idea, this may help extending the utilis life of that 'Paint dedicated MF towels' I care a lot for, keeping then distant from reaching the 'Undercarriage Only' status.
Kind Regards.
Great article and write-up, Mike!
It's always good to be safer than sorry. This adds another safety factor before using MF towels on paint.
Tony's Noxious Affectation?