RE: Suggestions on a washing mitt

["Bob Sutterfield" <Bob@xxxxxx>]

I use cotton baby diapers, the "pre-folded" kind with a thicker section
in the middle.  If you bought them new from a store, you have to launder
them several times first to get all the lanolin out.  Don't use fabric
softener in the wash, avoid dryer sheets too.  Six or seven diapers
should suffice per car.  Use all-cotton white bath towels, washed and
dried similarly.  Two or three towels per car should do the job.  The
Mrs. will just have to learn to accept that the garage towels are nicer
than the towels in the master bedroom.

Soak the diapers in the wash bucket while you're giving the car its
initial hose-off.  Wash top to bottom, never carry grime upward.  Never
double-dip, once a diaper has come out of the wash bucket it never goes
back in, that would carry grime into the water and thence onto other
sections of the car.  When I have finished using a diaper on the painted
or glass surfaces of the car, I toss it beside a wheel.  There's enough
soapy water left in the fabric to do a good job on one wheel.  Brake
dust comes out in the laundry just fine.

Some folks object that my diapers and towels use nylon threads in their
hems, saying the threads will scratch the car, and I should use items
made only with cotton threads.  Those are the same people who worry
whether "anal retentive" should be hyphenated.
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Bob Sutterfield
'87 E30 325iS http://bmwe30.net #1129 DAS KAR
'88 E28 535iS http://m535i.org   #154 IHR FUNF
BMWCCA #169277 Rocky Mountain Chapter

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