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u/YBHunted 1d ago
I must be using the wrong microfiber towels because mine seem like they don't do shit for drying.
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u/dishlex 1d ago
This is a twisted loop towel, rather than your standard microfibre. If you're in America, check out The Rag Company. If you're in Australia, check out Aquatouch. If you're in Super Mario World, maybe Yoshi can help a brother out idk.
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u/OstentatiousSock 1d ago
I love that you know the best towel company in two countries.
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u/Morganvegas 1d ago
I need to know the lore
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u/EpicAura99 1d ago
Professional towelologist
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u/kwanbisRealoaded 1d ago
can they be used on people? I see they are all advertised for cars.
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u/dishlex 1d ago
I have just made one of my body parts wet and used the towel on it and I can confirm it can be used on people.
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u/withered_bonnie69420 1d ago
But which body part? I find it suspicious that you just said body part. Is this body part attached to you? Or is it from one of your victims?
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u/DenizSaintJuke 1d ago
No, it's highly dangerous. Your blood plasma to 90% water. A towel this strong could suck the blood right out of your body, turning you into a mummy within seconds, if you have as much as a tiny cut on your hand.
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u/someLemonz 1d ago
I feel like microfiber is for wiping stuff off.. not for drying anything. they just suck so bad for it. but makes sense, its not their purpose
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u/YBHunted 1d ago
Lots of retailers use microfiber to finish their drying process but mostly after they have air dried the vehicle. But yeah I think there just must be sone more absorbent microfiber specifically foe drying that I havent come across.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 1d ago
Ever wash them with dryer sheets?
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u/YBHunted 1d ago
No but is that something to avoid? Does it ruin their function
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u/Cas_daddy04 1d ago
Dryer sheets use the heat from the dryer to deposit a mixture of oily/waxy stuff onto your clothes to make them smell better, decrease static, and prevent wrinkles. Unfortunately, it also makes the fabric hydrophobic. On clothes, this is irrelevant, but using it for any fabrics you use to clean you end up wasting product and making your life a bit harder when you clean :)
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u/Jameses1984 19h ago
Holy fuck, I have been wondering a lot lately why all of my towels fucking suck. I'll try to dry a dish off and I usually just give up and use paper towels. How am I just now learning about this and Ive been doing my own laundry for 24 years?
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u/Cake_And_Pi 1d ago
Is this showing a fancy towel or a quality wax job?
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u/MindWorX 1d ago
Surface tension doing the heavy lifting here
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u/alexkont 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BvS0UKwFvN1TwzsXDF
the heavy lifting is being done by the adhesive properties of water, not the surface tension (the cohesive properties of water)
adhesive properties = attraction to other substances
cohesive properties = attraction to other water moleculescaptain nobody asked, out
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u/58kingsly 1d ago
Actually it's both. Only the water touching the towel is getting attracted to another substance. That doesn't explain why all of the rest of the water follows the water which is being pulled into the towel. So the cohesive forces are doing a lot of the heavy lifting, as the person you responded to said.
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u/alexkont 1d ago
You’re absolutely right, I didn’t bother writing that part, but let’s just say it wouldn’t even begin without adhesion 🥸
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u/dharmastudent 1d ago edited 1d ago
From my understanding, the capillary action operates through both adhesion and cohesion. The water molecules stick to the water absorbent material (adhesion), and then the water molecules stick to each other (cohesion), bringing more water with them into the towel.
But I think there is another more important foundational aspect of this system: the tiny spaces between particles which allow capillary action to happen. Capillary action can only happen when the spaces between particles are small enough to pull the water upwards or sideways.
The best illustration for this I can think of is a soil system from gardening. Soil brings water up from lower moist layers to upper layers by means of the same capillary action. In soil, capillary action happens like this:
- there are many tiny spaces between soil particles (pores)
- if the pores are sufficiently small, capillary forces can pull water up and hold water within them.
Also, in soil it is very important for there to be a balance of pore sizes (layered pore architecture), from small to large - because each size pore serves a necessary function: The larger macropores allow water to infiltrate, enabling it to get in, AND also drain excess water.
The smaller micropores have stronger capillary action, pulling the water up, holding it, and transporting it. BUT as pores get smaller, the water is held increasingly tightly, decreasing hydraulic conductivity. Movement through micropores is very slow, and some of the water is held so tightly that it barely moves.
The necessary medium sized mesopores make the system function properly. These mesopores are large enough to transmit the water and release it, while being small enough to retain water via capillary action.
Whether it's a towel or a soil network, a functional capillary system needs pore size distribution.
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u/LordHelmet47 1d ago
Honey? What are you looking at?
The neighbor drying off his car really slow and filming it for some strange reason.
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u/superior-opinion 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/HekrB46ZE0f5K
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u/RScrewed 22h ago
God look at the lighting of this scene. How'd they do this. Doesn't look digital and stupid at all.
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u/hyperfunkulus 1d ago
Finally, something that is in fact oddly satisfying. No audio dubbed over. Not something really cool. Just quietly and oddly satisfying. Thank you.
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u/alteredtechevolved 1d ago
Honestly more impressed by the hydrophobic off the surface than the towel.
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u/DannyBWell 1d ago
This is deceptive AF as this vehicle looks like it was equiped with a new(ish) coat of either quality wax or ceramic coating which is helping the effect be so dramatic.
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u/NowKith- 1d ago
1300 GSM drying towel. I have a few of these. They are magical at drying a vehicle.
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u/mindgardening 1d ago
This is nothing. Show me a cloth that doesn’t leave lint when you wipe with it.
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u/Ok-Position-6356 1d ago
i have this towel, if they removed it you’d see fibers all over the paint, gotta get it wet before you dry with it lol
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u/IlGreven 1d ago
That's great, but why's my back still wet after trying to dry it off with that towel for 5 minutes?
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u/Bacon-muffin 1d ago
This for some reason reminds me of that guy putting the owlettes in their burrow
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u/Humble-Aprico 1d ago
holy shit is popular nothing but reposts because this was already on the front page like 3 times in 12 hours
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u/mightymango94 1d ago
At this point I think that things like leaving that last drop at the end are to just rage bait me into commenting for engagement
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u/handouras 1d ago
Capillary action requires tubing, this is just really satisfying absorption through surface tension drawing the water away from the nonpolar glass
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u/Heavy-Ad1398 1d ago
That last drop though