Rag me, I dare ya!

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chris kennedy

chris kennedy

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Cutting up some old cotton T's here for rags. I like cotton for wire lube, threading oil ect. I often find I run short of rags on the truck.

Has anybody used the blue rolls you see at the auto parts store? Are they a good value or do you use something else?
 
I get cartons of cotton terry cloth "bar mops" (big wash cloths) at the janitorial supply place, and here, for next to nothing. They also sell them in big bundles at the auto parts stores for detailing cars. The blue towels are okay, but the roll somehow always gets messed up before it's all used up. The big dispenser-type boxes are better than the rolls, but don't travel on the truck so well. A plumber friend of mine gets his rags for free from Goodwill in the form of donated clothing that was unsuitable for resale.

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mdshunk said:
A plumber friend of mine gets his rags for free from Goodwill in the form of donated clothing that was unsuitable for resale.
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Now were talking. Theres a bunch of them around here.

BTW Marc, your PM is full.
 
mdshunk said:
Exactly. Seems like a certain member had some time on their hands and sent me a grumpy manifesto in the form of over 100 PM's.

Now, back to rags...
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that actually took me away from some important work...make sure you read them...
 
emahler said:
that actually took me away from some important work...make sure you read them...
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You've never sent me a grumpy PM. You've always been helpful.

Use many rags, emahler? I mostly use mine to dry my hands on so that I don't have to use a customer's towel. That's one of the 7 deadly sins of residential service.
 
Those blue paper towels are great, very durable, and SUPER absorbent. I keep a washable rag in my back pocket and use disposables for the more detailed tasks. $2.95 a roll here for the shop rags(blue paper towels). Not bad.
 
Those reddish mechanics shop rags are anti-asorbant. We used to get bags of hotel towels by the pound, like Marc does. Can't get those anymore, so get white towels from big box and use sparingly.
 
tom baker said:
so get white towels from big box and use sparingly.
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I supply my rags, water, soda, juice, gojo, hand soap, snacks ect for my guys. They don't use rags sparingly because they think a nice new clean rag will be on the truck tommorrow. But I'll check into that. I still like the thrift shop throw away idea.
 
I think the last time I bought a box-o-towls, I got it at Sams Club. You can buy cloth hand towls at dollar stores pretty cheap too...
 
K8MHZ said:
Probably somewhere around a buck, I'll bet......
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they come in big packs, not sure it it was a dollar, but it was cheap. I bought a whole bunch to send to the troops last Christmas along with bottles of hand sanitizer, they were on a "need list" for the troops someone gave me.
 
The paint store has box-o-rags pretty cheap too. Usually all cotton and various sizes in a box. I don't know if you have a Big Lots store in your area but they have hand/bath towels for cheap too. They are usually weird colors though. I like that myself. I had a bundle of pink hand towels from there once. No other trades on the job "borrowed" any of those without asking. They were just too obvious. I wash and recycle cloth rags as much as I can. Big Lots is a good place to buy cheap bedsheets for drop cloths too.
 
Save the planet

Save the planet

We have a huge pile of really nice rags and some towels and a washer and dryer in the shop, yep we wash them, someone figured out it was cheaper and eliminated waste and possible bad stuff from gettin ginto landfills, think green :)
 
zog said:
We have a huge pile of really nice rags and some towels and a washer and dryer in the shop, yep we wash them, someone figured out it was cheaper and eliminated waste and possible bad stuff from gettin ginto landfills, think green :)
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I wash mine as many times as I can.

Hey zog, do you think Greg Biffle is laying off the throttle getting into the middle of the corner to save fuel?

Think green!:grin:
 
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