warning on leather treatments .... RE: PE - RE: Grommet failure

[j'lynn yeates]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bjorn [mailto:bjorn at ODSY.NET]
> 
> How about tallow ? Years ago I was taught that it was a good
> leather preserver.

one word *rats*.  

animals based products applied to leather will attract the vermin and
they will eat the leather, canvas, or anything else you have applied
it to.  have a pair of wonderful bald-mountain moccassins (that were
my favorites) that were destroyed when a rat got in and chewed
through one one them ... took a fancy to the "natural" tallow-based
leather dressing i was experimenting with.   

'wolf

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