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Hazcat

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Cleaning Question
« on: September 01, 2008, 07:52:51 AM »
I bought a pig sticker (bayonet) for my Ishy.  REALLY COOL!

BUT  the scabbard is full of cosmoline.  It is metal and mostly leather.  How do I clean the leather (especially the inside)?  Any ideas?
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 08:00:35 AM »
My wife used to be a leathersmith and they always cleaned leather with a soap...can't think of the name of it anymore but it's made just for leather. Tack stores would probably have it. I'm not sure what cosmoline is though...oil based? Then you're in a different wicket.
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2008, 08:03:09 AM »
Cosmoline is a polite name for grease!  YUCK!
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2008, 08:19:23 AM »
saddle soap perhaps?
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 09:15:27 AM »
Quote from: DaverZ on September 01, 2008, 08:19:23 AM
saddle soap perhaps?


A good liquid saddle soap will help remover the cosmoline.

BUT, take it from this old cowboy, use a good leather conditioner afterwards - even saddle soaps will break the leather down. Rinse the inside well, then saturate with conditioner, then let dry. Should be clean and good to go another 50 years.
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Re: Cleaning Question
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 12:44:25 PM »
I read several different methods that work on rifles but they all sound like they would be bad for leather. The most popular is boiling water or a steam sprayer. It doesn't take a lot of heat to melt cosmoline. Also popular are a blow dryer, mineral spirits, brake cleaner, and other solvents. Hot water might not be too bad but solvents destroy leather. If you google cosmoline removal you may be able to find a good way for leather. There are lots of articles but of course they all seem to be about the guns themselves.
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 12:46:18 PM »
If you can find it (look in a boot store) get some "Bick's Leather Balm"...it's good stuff.
Clean with saddle soap, as mentioned above, then coat with balm...wait a few days and re-coat.
I've been using it on boots and holsters and sheaths for years.
Justin Boot balm works too.

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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2008, 03:39:28 PM »
Haz...Lexol was the name of the leather cleaner i was talking about. It's pretty good on greeazsy stuff, so it might work.
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2008, 05:23:44 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on September 01, 2008, 12:44:25 PM
I read several different methods that work on rifles but they all sound like they would be bad for leather. The most popular is boiling water or a steam sprayer. It doesn't take a lot of heat to melt cosmoline. Also popular are a blow dryer, mineral spirits, brake cleaner, and other solvents. Hot water might not be too bad but solvents destroy leather. If you google cosmoline removal you may be able to find a good way for leather. There are lots of articles but of course they all seem to be about the guns themselves.

Haz came up with an Eco friendly way to clean the small parts, He put them in a plastic bag and hung them in the sun letting the heat do the work for him.  ;D
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Re: Cleaning Question
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2008, 06:32:19 PM »
Another fat should do very well at getting it out, just not to sure what it would do to the leather.( most leather cleaners are some type of fat)
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