Removing Grease from Detail Brushes

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Hi everyone

Last weekend while detailing a client's car (a routine maintenance detail) when cleaning the front passenger wheel with my Daytona Speed Master wheel brush and various other brushes I noticed dark grease on the bristles of all the brushes.

I realised immediately that this wasn't any ordinary grease - it was bearing grease, the kind that doesn't budge no matter what cleaning solution you use.

Unfortunately I have no before's or afters but I do have a pic of the tool I used:



This is basically a small general purpose microfiber towel that I use for tires and grimy work. The cloth was completely clean and free of grease prior to use.

So I'd thought I'd share my solution to this problem.

1. Soak brush in really warm (not boiling hot) solution of water and dish detergent for about 10-15 minutes.

2. Grab your general purpose towel and dampen with water, then apply the same cleaning solution or solvent of your choice (I used megs d101 @ 10:1) to the cloth.

3. Rub the cloth against the bristles of the brush and see the grease shift immediately and transfer to the mf cloth. Repeat this process using a unexposed part of the cloth until the bristles of the brush are clean, then rinse in clean water and hang to dry.

4. Finally rinse the mf cloth or throw away (the ones I use are really inexpensive).

I really thought my brushes were done before finding this solution. Hope this helps anyone in this situation.

[c5errr]

thats very nice tip
and for cleaning tire brushes do u use the same technique ?

[Mike@DistinctImage]

Thanks c5errr. Yes it does. It seems the stiffer bristles are easier to clean with this technique.

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