The Mother of All (Non-treated) Polishing cloth

[OcalaFlGuy]

Now this is old hat I'm sure to alot here, I've seen this in this forum before (I want to say Event Horizon mentioned it a

while back) but I haven't seen it mentioned here in along time though it has come up in the repair forum from time to time.

 

I finally used up my usual polishing cloth and needed another one.

 

Went to Goodwill and got a nice pre-washed 100% (fine Portugese) cotton flannel shirt for just a couple bucks.

 

JUDAS H. PRIEST!

 

 

Man! What a polishing cloth!

 

Absolutely puts my microfibre to shame and 3 square miles of it for the same cost.

 

Yeah, I knew about flannel buffing wheels for electric polishers and I should have made the conection already

but I hadn't.

 

Try it, you'll never go back to what you were using.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Edited July 1, 2009 by OcalaFlGuy

[Richard]

I've been using 100% pure yellow cotton flannel polishing cloths for years. I buy them three for $3.50 or so, in the cleaning/polishing aisle at my local auto parts store. Their advantage over used shirts is that you don't have to deal with sleeves, buttons, pockets, etc.

[OcalaFlGuy]

I may be a tad more frugal Richard. I paid about that same $3.50 for a nearly new but washed XL shirt. I think I'll

get about 2.5-3 sq/yds of polish cloth out of it. The collar, sleeves, pockets & buttons, barely slow me down, just cut the pieces out around them. Tonight I cut maybe just 8" of one of the long sleeves off, then opened that up. That gave me a polish cloth about 8"x10-11", but barely a dent in the shirt.

 

Laugh if you want but it's a nice enough tartan pattern that I'm going to wrap a small present this week for a pen buddy

in a piece of it. Wrapping paper cleverly disguised as a polishing cloth.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

[FarmBoy]

I may be a tad more frugal Richard. I paid about that same $3.50 for a nearly new but washed XL shirt. I think I'll

get about 2.5-3 sq/yds of polish cloth out of it. The collar, sleeves, pockets & buttons, barely slow me down, just cut the pieces out around them. Tonight I cut maybe just 8" of one of the long sleeves off, then opened that up. That gave me a polish cloth about 8"x10-11", but barely a dent in the shirt.

 

Laugh if you want but it's a nice enough tartan pattern that I'm going to wrap a small present this week for a pen buddy

in a piece of it. Wrapping paper cleverly disguised as a polishing cloth.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Yeah but you had to buy a scissors to cut it up. That significantly increased your cost.

 

I know, I know. You can use the scissors for other things but beware, it is a little known fact that fine Portugese) cotton flannel requires a special (very special) scissors. Using the wrong one will cause big problems down the road.

 

T