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12th February 2018, 06:04 PM #1Novice
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Lint free cloths - what do you use?
Just interested what everyone uses for applying finishes that suggest using a "lint free cloth". I've bumped in to people using everything from old socks to expensive purpose made products from companies like 3M. So what do you use?
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12th February 2018, 07:57 PM #2
Any 100% cotton, shirt, singlet, t-shirt, tea towel, sheets, etc, etc....
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12th February 2018, 08:03 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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https://www.spotlightstores.com/sewi...e/p/BP80264183
I've been using this for a couple of years now. I was at Timbecom in Melbourne at the opening of their new store (previous store to their current new store) Ubeaut, our forum owner was demonstrating their polishes, waxes and I asked what was the material he was using. I cannot be 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure Neil said flannelette. I went to my local Spotlight store and ended up with a metre. This worked so well that when I'm getting low I just pop in and get another metre or two.
I cut it up into about 150mm by 150mm squares, fold it to almost two fingers width and rather stingily use small portions at a time. I have had other people suggest I should use paper towels; tried them, went back to flannelette.
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12th February 2018, 09:33 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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(Quote) I cannot be 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure Neil said flannelette.
Mick.[/QUOTE]
I have also heard him say flannelette during a demoTom
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12th February 2018, 11:16 PM #5China
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As above a high quality Flannelette
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13th February 2018, 08:17 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Cotton fibers in flannelette are orders of magnitude longer than the wood fiber (usually conifer is best) in any brand of paper towel.
Thus as Crowie suggests (#2), just about any well-thrashed cotton garment will be good. I use worn out underwear for clean dusting.
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13th February 2018, 11:09 AM #7
Dense cheesecloth
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13th February 2018, 11:12 AM #8
Used 100% cotton T-shirts, business shirts, bed sheets, underwear....Once they get to the 'rag bag' stage they are really soft and have had all the lint washed out of them
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13th February 2018, 08:38 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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While I certainly agree with using old 100% cotton clothing, be they shirts, underdacks or G strings, I don't go through enough to be able to keep on turning and polishing. I literally go for years before I wear out clothing; being the sensitive new age guy that I am...
Mick.
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13th February 2018, 08:50 PM #10
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=f...Huvc8wftj4GYDg
So I wonder if "napped" means brushed?
No mention of microfibre cloths so far. I'm just about to go back to polishing a car (first time in a decade) and the recommendations seem to be microfibre. I bought a MF mitt and it's certainly nice and soft, but I'll have to check the other MF cloths I have.
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15th February 2018, 05:44 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Yes, old, worn out, lint-free cotton items serve me well.
The issue I have found with old sheets, which are torn into squares then folded, is that any loose edge that comes unfolded near the work will throw as many threads into the polish as they can. Sometimes I tear them up, then re-wash them and put them through the tumble drier to get the threads off. At the moment I have a good supply of very worn out cotton serviettes from clearing out my parents' place. When they're gone I have their hand towels to go through. We donated their copious supply of sheets and bath towels to a womens' refuge so I don't have them.
I haven't tried microfibre for polishing as it doesn't seem very absorbent to me, but i do use it for wiping away dust.
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