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atomic80 said:
Ok, I'll bite..you obviously know what you're doing if you managed to win all those awards. I won a few myself too but nowhere to the degree that you have. What sort of soft terry cloth do you use because the ones I've found seem to be a bit coarse.
Good question... And you're going to laugh.... I've been having a tough time finding good towels lately that will ABSORB. I don't know what's going on with the mills, or if they are coating/treating the cotton yarn these days, or what, but any time I go and buy new towels, like the ones I got from Griot's, or these really fluffy-soft-dense ones I bought at Target (deluxe bath towels), they just won't absorb water worth a damn. They're great for buffing off polish and wax, but that's about it...
So, the place I go for really great car-wash towels?? Goodwill........ You go there, and you always find these really expensive household bath towels, that have been through likely thousands of wash cycles, and are soft, and absorbant, and "seasoned".
At home, my "good towel" cabinet is stacked full of oddball mis-matched old antique towels from all corners of the earth, some of which I've had for ages...
You've also got to be careful to let good towels dry, before plopping them in the hamper. Otherwise, they'll "rot" over time, and leave behind a cloud of towel-dust on your paint, and eventually disintigrate into dust.