Zaino borderless blond

To me it seems like the old ones may have been cotton. I haven't opened the new pack yet, but it seems like the new ones are a different material. The old ones can leave cotton style lint, the kind of lint you can blow away.
 
Evan.J said:
I have the 530's and the gold plush Jr towels and have never had a need to use anything else.
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Agree. I'm not sure what difference it makes where the towel was designed, stitched, packaged, assembled, or where the raw materials come from, etc...

Does the United States produce a super special kind of fiber that doesn't scratch paint? Or, are you telling me Chinese people can assemble an IPad, but they can't assemble a towel? C'mon... You can't really believe that. There are good and bad towels that come out of everywhere.

Quite frankly, AG sells a lot of good towels. The 530 & 600 gsm towels are pretty much good for anything and don't lint. They also have MF borders and last forever. I don't care if they're stitched in middle earth by gnomes.
 
newbdetailer said:
To me it seems like the old ones may have been cotton. I haven't opened the new pack yet, but it seems like the new ones are a different material. The old ones can leave cotton style lint, the kind of lint you can blow away.
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That has to do with the split-fiber construction. I have split-fiber towels that are 75/25 that leave lint like that when they are new. Sal has made a fortune developing a mystique that his products, as Swanicyouth said, are made by gnomes or something, when in actuality it's a lot more pedestrian than that. He had people so convinced that I got challenged to go to his "factory" when they had their address on Rt. 9 in Howell...well, that turned out to be a Mailboxes, Etc. (now a UPS store) However, that only intensified the speculation about his highly secret location manned by oompa loompa's....
 
I should say I have a whole shelf of Z products, and they are all very good, including the towels. I just beg to differ that they are made by oompa loompas. I see they have a new address....google maps shows it as a suite in an office building...but I'm pretty sure there must be a whole underground facility, perhaps with a high-speed rail tunnel going all the way to Indiana where the fulfillment center is...
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Sal has made a fortune developing a mystique that his products, as Swanicyouth said, are made by gnomes or something, when in actuality it's a lot more pedestrian than that.

However, that only intensified the speculation about his highly secret location manned by oompa loompa's....
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Nice!! I think the happens a lot in the detail products industry.
 
As far as manufacturing goes, I have been selling packaging sytems and equipment for 23 years. Chances are they have a contract manufacturer blending their products for them. If they had a manufacturing location you'd be able to find it on google earth. It costs a lot of money to set up even a small chemical blending and packaging operation, not too mention epa, osha compliance etc. Even if you bought in bulk 55 gallon drums and just repackaged it you still have to bottle it, label it, box it, warehouse it and then ship it. So it's easier and less expsensive to have someone else do it for you. I see it on a daily basis in my job.
 
I have just taken what I consider to be a significant step forward in my microfiber world. I'm a total hacker/newbie and have been tinkering with my new scion fr-s since purchasing it in July. My skill level consists of two bucket washes w/grit gaurds, foam gun, clay, dp policoat sealant and collinite 845, 1Z Einszett Glass Cleaner glass cleaner, all by hand.

Until now I was using microfibers that I picked up on amazon. Zwipes microfiber cleaning cloths ~$20 for box of small cloths 3 different colors. I found some chemical guys gold 16 x 16 pack of 12 (mic 506_12) microfibers 70/30.

What should I expect to notice in terms of difference in performance? Besides being lint free hopefully


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custmsprty said:
I know one thing for sure, they aren't worth $8.32 a piece, that's nuts! I bet their is like a 400% + mark up on those things. WOW!!!

I've been using these for two years and they work great, got a bunch on bogo:

Super Soft Deluxe Blue Microfiber Towels, microfiber detailing towels, buffing towels, micro fiber towel, detail cloth

Also have a bunch of the gold plush too.
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I have both the towels you named above and the Zaino towels. I guarantee you the Zaino towels are better. However those aren't bad.
 
I have the zaino, orange boa, edgeless from two other resellers, I like my edgeless over the others. The edgeless are heavier and more plush. The blondes were my first high dollar towel before I knew to shop around, dropped $130 on them, now they are in my one off bin.
 
MF Madness Crazy Pile eats Borderless Blonde for Lunch. They are the ultimate wax/ sealant removal towel.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Boy that towel looks like a blue BB. They must have different color oompa loompas there in Germany.
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I'm using one right now and loving it. This towel makes the streakiest most difficult waxes to buff off easily. Its different than a BB.

Its the hardcore version.

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I'm gonna look at that German microfiber. I also dropped a lot of money on towels from the rag company and they're nice but they grab the wax and leave very tiny lint. The lint is very difficult to wipe off
 
The MF Madness towels are quite good. However, 99% of the time - the Cobra 530s & 600gsm towels are the best for many jobs. They are workhorses.
 
i'm impressed with the quality of MF Madness stuff. i love the Incredimitt.

their stuff isn't cheap but i like it, regardless.
 
weird, i stumbled on this thread via google and i was the last poster. what the heck.

anyway, i'm bumping this because i have been polling some people while i am redoing my inventory and now that i have the pads sorted, i'm headed toward towels.

I CAN'T DEAL WITH LINT ANY LONGER.

i bought some 16x16 600 towels in green (i'll let you figure out where they came from) because someone i really respect said he and the guy who he trained under use that company's 600s and they never cause lint issues for them. so i got 10. i returned a bunch of others that i ordered from there for various reasons. sewn tags is my biggest pet peeves. i used to pick those tags out of the seams with surgical precision and NO MORE. plus i think any towel that has a tag is going to be subpar, generally speaking.

now i need a meat and potatoes towel in the 400-500 range. something i can get 20 of at a clip and not worry that they will act up. i've noticed a lot of talk about TRC. i couldn't exactly figure out why until i saw that Junk did that video. so, i know a lot of people have been up on TRC towels but is the general consensus that they don't lint? i know the OP has had some issues.

all i know is that i can't stand linting. i've dealt with it for years and it's absolutely annoying...and i'm at the point in my life where i can (and should) afford to re-up and get stuff that works as advertised.

SO...i am on the fence. do i spent the loot to get Microfiber Madness? roll the dice with TRC? i honestly have never had any luck whatsoever with AG towels over the years so i'm not going there.

as crazy as it sounds, my favorite towel is the Mothers drying towel. it's exactly what it says it is with no surprises. i wish i could get a 400-500 high quality general use towel in that sort of quality THAT DOESN'T LINT.
 
builthatch said:
weird, i stumbled on this thread via google and i was the last poster. what the heck.

anyway, i'm bumping this because i have been polling some people while i am redoing my inventory and now that i have the pads sorted, i'm headed toward towels.

I CAN'T DEAL WITH LINT ANY LONGER.

i bought some 16x16 600 towels in green (i'll let you figure out where they came from) because someone i really respect said he and the guy who he trained under use that company's 600s and they never cause lint issues for them. so i got 10. i returned a bunch of others that i ordered from there for various reasons. sewn tags is my biggest pet peeves. i used to pick those tags out of the seams with surgical precision and NO MORE. plus i think any towel that has a tag is going to be subpar, generally speaking.

now i need a meat and potatoes towel in the 400-500 range. something i can get 20 of at a clip and not worry that they will act up. i've noticed a lot of talk about TRC. i couldn't exactly figure out why until i saw that Junk did that video. so, i know a lot of people have been up on TRC towels but is the general consensus that they don't lint? i know the OP has had some issues.

all i know is that i can't stand linting. i've dealt with it for years and it's absolutely annoying...and i'm at the point in my life where i can (and should) afford to re-up and get stuff that works as advertised.

SO...i am on the fence. do i spent the loot to get Microfiber Madness? roll the dice with TRC? i honestly have never had any luck whatsoever with AG towels over the years so i'm not going there.

as crazy as it sounds, my favorite towel is the Mothers drying towel. it's exactly what it says it is with no surprises. i wish i could get a 400-500 high quality general use towel in that sort of quality THAT DOESN'T LINT.
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been there done that and i know how you feel about lint. it's frustrating and enough to want to pull your hair out. mf towels in the 350-400gm range work well and they can be used for multiple tasks. the thicker shag like towels that i haven't had any issues with that i bought years ago before anyone else started to produce them are the eurow shag towels...
 
builthatch said:
weird, i stumbled on this thread via google and i was the last poster. what the heck.

anyway, i'm bumping this because i have been polling some people while i am redoing my inventory and now that i have the pads sorted, i'm headed toward towels.

I CAN'T DEAL WITH LINT ANY LONGER.

i bought some 16x16 600 towels in green (i'll let you figure out where they came from) because someone i really respect said he and the guy who he trained under use that company's 600s and they never cause lint issues for them. so i got 10. i returned a bunch of others that i ordered from there for various reasons. sewn tags is my biggest pet peeves. i used to pick those tags out of the seams with surgical precision and NO MORE. plus i think any towel that has a tag is going to be subpar, generally speaking.

now i need a meat and potatoes towel in the 400-500 range. something i can get 20 of at a clip and not worry that they will act up. i've noticed a lot of talk about TRC. i couldn't exactly figure out why until i saw that Junk did that video. so, i know a lot of people have been up on TRC towels but is the general consensus that they don't lint? i know the OP has had some issues.

all i know is that i can't stand linting. i've dealt with it for years and it's absolutely annoying...and i'm at the point in my life where i can (and should) afford to re-up and get stuff that works as advertised.

SO...i am on the fence. do i spent the loot to get Microfiber Madness? roll the dice with TRC? i honestly have never had any luck whatsoever with AG towels over the years so i'm not going there.

as crazy as it sounds, my favorite towel is the Mothers drying towel. it's exactly what it says it is with no surprises. i wish i could get a 400-500 high quality general use towel in that sort of quality THAT DOESN'T LINT.
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I absolutely love Cobra Gold Plush Jr. Its my go-to towel for everything except waterless washes. I do have woobies and zainos that work well but the gold plush are much better.
 
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