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I use blue paper towels all the time so I am very familiar with them. But....there is no way they work as well as a cotton fabric (like an old t-shirt or gym sock) when cleaning a bore. Cotton holds oil/solvent better, and gives a more thorough 'wipe' as it is softer and more conformable. They are less likely to leave fragments behind. The main benefit to blue towels is they are readily available and consistent.
Another place blue towels fall flat as compared to well-washed cotton is internal engine work (or gearbox work) for the same reasons.
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Greg, agreed on the old original blue shop towels but what I featured to begin this post is the new Scott Pro paper towel. It will not come apart with solvent and does a great job in all respects. Huge difference between these and the old blue towels.
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I have found that old t-shirts from yard sales are the best value. Most people sell them for a dime to a quarter each and I will give them a dollar and tell them to give me as many as that will buy. That paln has got me a couple dozen last time, more than will fit in a drawer or than I will use in five years.
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Greg, agreed on the old original blue shop towels but what I featured to begin this post is the new Scott Pro paper towel. It will not come apart with solvent and does a great job in all respects. Huge difference between these and the old blue towels. Bought a roll today, Joe, and will give it a go. Good timing because I was just about to run out of cut patches and was going to look through my drawers for old tee shirts.
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You all are wasting money, next time you see a cotton field after harvest, go around the edge where the combines miss harvesting and
pick all the cotton balls you need
works great, I push thru with wire
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You all are wasting money, next time you see a cotton field after harvest, go around the edge where the combines miss harvesting and
pick all the cotton balls you need
works great, I push thru with wire
brush I live in Canada. We will have to step up the pace of carbon emissions for "climate change" to make it possible for me to go scavenge a cotton field around here.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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You all are wasting money, next time you see a cotton field after harvest, go around the edge where the combines miss harvesting and
pick all the cotton balls you need
works great, I push thru with wire
brush I live in Canada. We will have to step up the pace of carbon emissions for "climate change" to make it possible for me to go scavenge a cotton field around here. Now that's funny, canvasback! To each his own, but I grow and pick hundreds of acres of cotton a year, and I much prefer buying cotton patches. I have several friends who pick up cotton behind my pickers and use it for earplugs while shooting. They wad it up around a seed, which is in the lint, and shove it down in their ears. Not effective enough at suppressing the sound for me. And there's too much empty space in my head to be shoving cotton seeds down in there, might get lost. SRH
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When I was in the service, we stuffed used cigarette filters in our ears. May not have been the best, but it was all we had
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I recently purchased a used double guncase from the UK. It came with one side of the case packed full of fotter twine or bailing twine depending on what you would want to call it.
I couldn't figure out why the twine was in the case. Then I found a cleaning rod with a jag on the end of the rod and the jag was covered/wrapped in the fotter/bailer twine. I can't imagine that the twine would be a good cleaning patch but that's what it was obviously being used for.
As I cleaned out the case I decided to keep the twine just in case it works and if hard times hit and I needed it.
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I recently purchased a used double guncase from the UK. It came with one side of the case packed full of fotter twine or bailing twine depending on what you would want to call it.
I couldn't figure out why the twine was in the case. Then I found a cleaning rod with a jag on the end of the rod and the jag was covered/wrapped in the fotter/bailer twine. I can't imagine that the twine would be a good cleaning patch but that's what it was obviously being used for.
As I cleaned out the case I decided to keep the twine just in case it works and if hard times hit and I needed it. That goes back to flintlock days when the preferred cleaning material was tow. Perhaps that is what you saw in the case. SRH
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