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Thread: How to clean polishing rags?
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21st January 2013, 08:20 AM #1
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How to clean polishing rags?
I have been using some good cotton rags for waxing and polishing with Ubeaut EEE Ultrashine cutting compound and Ubeaut Traditional Wax.
Is there any way I can clean these for re-using, as good soft rags are hard to come by these daysregards,
Dengy
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21st January 2013, 01:23 PM #2
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Before washing them, the wax would need to be dissolved out of them as much as possible so they would need to be soaked in a solvent that would soften and hopefully dissolve the wax. You could probably keep this solvent for reuse.
Then I would soak them in a detergent that would tackle the solvent.
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21st January 2013, 09:01 PM #3
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21st January 2013, 09:11 PM #4
A good general purpose solvent is any of the car lacquer thinners - nice and aggressive, but leave it to sit (covered, so it doesn't evaporate) for a few days and the gunk tends to settle out of it.
But I'd just ask at a local charity shop as they often do bags of rags (made from clothes too worn to sell).
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21st January 2013, 09:13 PM #5
LOML soaks mine in a good doze of Eucalyptus and water prior washing.
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22nd January 2013, 11:52 AM #6
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22nd January 2013, 03:15 PM #7
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Have you considered that the cost of cleaning may be more that new rags?was in the green shed the other day and there were rags which looked good for polishing,can't remember the price only looked ok value.
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25th January 2013, 02:19 PM #8
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Thanks for the suggestion, SC, I went to the local lifeline shop and got a double bed sheet, 50% cotton, for $6.
That should keep me going for a whileregards,
Dengy
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