Shop Towels, Whatcha Use

[Responder]

Lots of blue Scott towels. To get the grime off GO-JO towels.

But, I still like to use a red shop rag every now and then.....nostalgic?

 

[mtnwkr]

People would be shocked at how many of those blue surgical towels get thrown away. When they open a package for surgery, any that don't get used are headed for the garbage as they are no longer sterile. I have piles of them as my wife is the charge nurse for a surgical center.

Thats what I use. I take home a few a day that would otherwise be thrown out. They are lint free and great for cleaning guns
I always have a few on my desk in different stages of dirty for different tasks.

 

[460Rustang]

Hotel wash cloths from every visit, I travel a lot,.....

 

[skippy24]

Are you talking about these, the Scott's towels on the traditional paper towel style rolls?

This seems to be the winner among many of the guys I work with for their home needs.

Mike.

As many said I use these and get them at Costco for a good price. I also have a 4 and 6 year old kids that grow like weeds so I seems like I have an endless supply of thrashed children's t-shirts that I use.

 

[wjamyers]

Once again, a topic I wouldn't of even thought worth having turns out to enlightening on Garage Journal. I just picked up a 50 pack of reds from HF, but this thread has me rethinking that, switch to the blue scotts later...

But, I was also wondering how the hell i was going to wash my old reds and this clues my ******* in to the laundramat... so one question...

When you wash the red towels at the laundramat, do you put some gojo in with your detergent to loosen the grease, use gojo exclusively or skip it entirely?

 

[zmotorsports]

Washing of the red towels was probably the second reason I went away from them. I wasn't even going to consider washing those in our home washer and dryer. The company that does our uniforms at work was doing them for me for a while but then their price jumped up tremendously for just doing the shop rags. They were trying to get me to do uniforms, rugs and the whole nine yards at my home shop. There was no way I was going to commit to that kind of expense for a side business/shop.

I am very pleased with the strength and durability of the Wypall X80's from Kimberly Clark and when I need them and buy in bulk and/or sale they are about the same as I was paying years ago for laundering the red shop rags.

Mike.

 

[wjamyers]

Nevermind as to my question:

Shop Rags - Cleaning

 

[rob in nh]

i use scotts rags in a box from sam's club, 350 count and 15 dollars a box

 

[rodm1]

Sort of on topic. These are the best hand cleaners in the world

VZW Note 2-Tapa 4-CleanRom 3.5

How do you get the scrubbing particles of your hands? I used them a couple of times and didn't like the particles on my hands.

 

[Miller6386]

How do you get the scrubbing particles of your hands? I used them a couple of times and didn't like the particles on my hands.

I've used these for years and never once had that issue. The towels are just textured with a solution on them.

VZW Note 2-Tapa 4-CleanRom 3.5

 

[Greatbear]

I use different towels or wipers for different tasks around the shops. I have two paper towel holders next to one another, there's the blue paper Scott shop towels on one, and plain white paper towels on the other. The blue ones hold up better and mop up more oil and can be tossed out. Plain white paper towels seem to work better at cleaning glass. I have a bin of blue and red cotton shop rags for heavier work, and some small terrycloth towels for washing and drying cars and such. I have a couple automatic towel dispensers with the typical roll paper towels, these seem to have less lint than any of the others and are good for wiping down oily parts like valve body internals and such that have sharp edges and seem to snag the lint off of other towels. Plus they are good for drying hands.

 

[justin1795]

How do you get the scrubbing particles of your hands? I used them a couple of times and didn't like the particles on my hands.

i dont like this style. they smell funny and they dry my skin out.

 

[Dmarkland]

Surgical towels are the best thing ever made!

 

[Kev442]

I must be the only guy to use tore up old clothes, towels, and sheets. I can't afford all that high falutin store bought towel nonsense.

I better like the clothing when I buy it, because it's gonna be on my carcass for 5 or more years, then work it's way through the shop as a nice rag, so so rag and then oil spill rag. The "nice" and "so-so" go through the washer multiple times. I swear I've picked up an "oil spill rag" from the bottom of the box and it's old enough to vote!

 

[Tony-MKE]

Surgical towels are the best thing ever made!

These are good I like the Huck Towels which are the same but lower price I think the word surgical raises the price! I get mine from GBE Packaging for around 23 dollars a case. I saw a case on Amazon for 250 dollars.

 

[fordcragar]

+1 on the Scotts Blue towel.............[l/QUOTE]

I buy mine at Costco.

 

[6768rogues]

I buy cheap white cotton V neck T shirts at Walmart. They are comfortable and cheap. When they get a stain I turn them into shop rags. And my wife buys paper towels in a big bale, so I grab a few rolls of them, too.

 

[andrewordrew]

Another vote here for the blue Scott Shop paper towel. Cheap enough and easy to find. Beyond this, if I need a lint-free cotton cloth then I’m using old t-shirts retired to shop rag duty. The upside is I get fresh white undershirts more often and a reason to buy a new t-shirt at a race, concert, or festival.






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[drb007]

You all are gonna hate me for this one...
I work in neurosurgery and the husband of one of my brain tumor patients works at a paper place that makes towels. I see her in follow up every 9 months, and he brings me a pick up truck load of supplies...for free!
When they have "seconds" with a blemish or some minute variation, they put them in a warehouse for the employees to take. The only condition is that they can't sell them, just give them away. I usually get big cases of the blue shop towels, and then smaller boxes of just about everything you've seen listed here. Now he was a 60" roll of toweling that he wants to give to my dad for his shop...mount it on a BIG rod in the beams in the barn and just pull away what you need! Should last my dad his lifetime!

And I get the surgical towels too...

 

[Sawdustmaker]

Use the blue Scott Shop Towels and whenever an ole towel gets tossed from the linen closet I grab it, cut into squares and use one until it gets really dirty, they toss, grab another. Also cut up old bed sheets and use. Have plenty of rags for oil, grease, paint, glue, etc. Use the blue paper towels for the hands.

 

[Cargo]

I stop in at the local UniFirst place (uniforms, rugs, towels, etc.) and buy boxes of the damaged red shop towels and white bar towels. The bar towels can be lint bombs depending on age and damage but they soak up things way better than the red shop ones and don't have that pervasive solvent aroma. Also, no swarf.

Both kinds go through the good-clean, medium-dirty, filthy, use it one last time an throw it in the fire - progressive use system. I also have one large roll of continuous commercial/store type bathroom paper towel. Had it for a couple of years now and only used about a third of it, if that. The bar towels are my go-to favorite now.

 

[strength_and_power]

Uline has about every type of towel imaginable, brown or white folded or on rolls, blue, lint free, microfiber etc.

My t-shirts have a life cycle, when new, wear them for everyday use, then they become a gym shirt. After that they are worn at the shop. Then they become a rag. Then trashed


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[csp]

I get mine from GBE Packaging for around 23 dollars a case. I saw a case on Amazon for 250 dollars.

A case of how many?

 

[Tennessee Cattleman]

Scott blue towels used here also.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Use these they last forever, unless Aunt Ethel catches you on laundry day. Best to gather these up post laundry than prelaundry.