Drying MF

You need these in your dryer:

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Seconded. My wife still uses the occasional Bounce Free sheet for her loads that need to be as static-free as possible, but for all my work and casual clothes, all household towels and linens and all the garage towels I use either the blue balls (when drying tech fabrics) or merino balls (natural fibers or mixed loads) with no dryer sheets.
 
Blade said:
You need these in your dryer:

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Yes I've been thinking of getting these. The towels might look the same in the picture but you can definitely feel a difference. Normally I hang them then air dry them in the dryer and they come out nice. Maybe those dryer balls will help. He said dryer balls
 
Roger T said:
I wonder if it has anything to do with the polyester/polyamide % of the towels A higher polyamide % ( 25 to 30% ) makes for softer towels. Roger T
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I agree. What is the blend (70/30, 80/20, 90/10, etc). My wife bought some of the bath towels. I hate them. Scratchy, not soft.

I did write a while back about the fabric softner container in the wash. Seems that there still is some fabric softner residue left over/ Alot spills over and remains under the container. Water flows into spot over fills and picks up residue and adds it to the wash water. Pulled the soap, fabric soft. cont. and found alot, cleaned it up and every so often do the same. Helped out alot.

No dryer problems here. I still think it's water, soap and mf makeup.
 
Both towels are from the rag company. I think they're the same makeup. I'll check that out. They feel the same
 
I'm not sure what its called. It's a bath towel. I'll look it up
 
The bath towels are 25×47. They're not on the website anymore. I guess they stopped selling them. The avalanche towel is advertised as a car towel. What I have was advertised as a bath towel. It's the same thickness as the edgless eagle towels. They feel the same
 
They're very nice. They get you completely dry compared to a cotton towel
 
I stopped using dryer balls because I found they were not needed. When I started drying on low heat and not over drying them, the fiber felt softer and no need for dryer balls.
 
frankprozzoly said:
The bath towels are 25×47. They're not on the website anymore. I guess they stopped selling them. The avalanche towel is advertised as a car towel. What I have was advertised as a bath towel. It's the same thickness as the edgless eagle towels. They feel the same
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I actually have a couple of those bath towels myself, (2 beige ones & a green one) I'm pretty sure they were a little higher GSM than the Eagles but they were definitely 70/30 blend koreans.

From what I understand the Avalanche is basically a smaller/edgeless version of those towels now. I emailed them awhile back asking what happened to them because I wanted a couple more for my master bathroom. TRC basically said that they were great towels but discontinued them because they weren't selling very many of that big size. Probably had something to do with most people just getting big towels like that in cotton because they're so cheap.

Anyway, mine haven't clumped up like what you're showing. Mine still pretty much look like your orange eagle picture.

I sometimes hang-dry, but usually use a machine to dry. I just set it to air-fluff with no heat and don't use dryer sheets.

So far so good :props:
 
Well I'm hoping if I wash them again and let them air dry then run them in the dryer on just air they'll go back to the way they were
 
Again, the high-temp cutoff thermostat on most dryers is well below the melting point of the most common fibers in detailing towels, and the actual operating temperature that the cycling thermostat cycles off at is well below the boiling point of water. Boiling water is the recommended non-chemical method to clean and restore plush microfiber towels! I mean, we use high pressure steam (ie.: steam that is way hotter than water's normal boiling point) to clean fabrics in our cars... that are composed of pretty much the same fibers as found in our towels.
 
I believe we are more careful with our towels than we need to be sometimes. Wash properly, handle properly, and use properly. True for a lot of areas when detailing.
 
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