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Well, hides are tanned with vegetable oil, so it can't
be all that bad for leather!

I think it's the stitching that people are worried
about, but on 40 year old halters, I'm resigned to the
fact that I'll probably have to replace some
stitching.

chris
--- Kristen A Fisher <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When they were dry, I made up a bucket full of
> oil,
> > using neatsfoot oil and vegetable oil in a big ice
> > cream pail. I dunked the items one at a time in
> the
> > bucket of oil and let them soak for about an hour
> or
> > so and hung them up  again to dry.
> I thought I had heard somewhere that vegetable oil
> is not good to use on
> leather? Or am I confused? Oh maybe it had to do
> with the threads...???
>
> I know that Hydrophane Oil works great by itself on
> leather.
>
> Kristen
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