Hi all!!
I was going through the archives and found this thread. I first
read Neils Lovchal’s post:
May I offer another solution which has worked very fine for me. Every now and then when my wife Betty is not around i would sneak a bunch of buffs into her washing machine and simply wash them at 95 degrees C with normal washing powder. When washed I take them out of the machine, let them drip over the sink for a quarter of an hour or so and then simply spin them on the buffing machine, holding a plastic bucket around it. It is not as messy as using a rake and it also helps you rescue those polishing buffs that some student have contaminated with coarser buffing media. It does not do any harm to the washing machine, but I know Betty would hate to see it :->
Niels Lovsch
Then I read about not washing buffs in the washing machine because of
losing metal down the drain. My wife remembered we had one of these:
You could wash the buffs in one these washers, pour out the water
into a bucket and allow the water to evaporate (or strain it
through a filter). Thus, having the best of both worlds, clean
buffs and not losing any metal.
Just a thought,
~Tom~