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Stinking leather!
on: July 30, 2015, 04:17:30 AM
As I've been looking for different quarters, I've had a bunch of stuff in storage at my folks, including several of my firearms and my spare leather and nylon gear. I picked up my dressy (least scuzzed black leather) holster and magazine carrier (along with things like a couple ties, dress shoes, ets). The holster is fine. The mag carrier... phew!

It smells a little like spoiled milk. I have no idea why, it was in a dry place. But one that gets warm. I'm thinking that it is an issue with the tanning, but I'd like to neutralize the stink. Any ideas?
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #1 on: July 31, 2015, 10:09:44 PM
A little car Christmas tree air freshener? Because, nothing smells better when your in a gunfight than new car smell!
On a serious note you could try leather cleaner or shoe deodorant


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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #2 on: August 05, 2015, 06:43:52 PM
Good saddle soap and if that doesn't work then bury it in powdered charcoal or diatomacious earth. Bad spelling probably. Anyway you should be able to get a good sized, cheap bag from any auto parts store. One of the uses is soaking up oil spills but it is very absorbent and works for a lot of stuff. Powdered charcoal would be better probably but I am not sure where you can get some. Do not try crushing match-light charcoal. You need pure charcoal for this. I guess you could burn a stack of maple like the whiskey distillers do, depending on where you live.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #3 on: August 05, 2015, 08:23:56 PM
Good saddle soap and if that doesn't work then bury it in powdered charcoal or diatomacious earth. Bad spelling probably. Anyway you should be able to get a good sized, cheap bag from any auto parts store. One of the uses is soaking up oil spills but it is very absorbent and works for a lot of stuff. Powdered charcoal would be better probably but I am not sure where you can get some. Do not try crushing match-light charcoal. You need pure charcoal for this. I guess you could burn a stack of maple like the whiskey distillers do, depending on where you live.

Could try pharmacy.


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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #4 on: August 11, 2015, 04:24:26 AM
Good saddle soap and if that doesn't work then bury it in powdered charcoal or diatomacious earth.

Thanks, I hadn't throught of that.

Irony is that it is in a ziplock so I don't have to smell it, on a shelf that has a jar of diatomaceous earth on it.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #5 on: August 11, 2015, 01:41:18 PM
Good saddle soap and if that doesn't work then bury it in powdered charcoal or diatomacious earth.

Thanks, I hadn't throught of that.

Irony is that it is in a ziplock so I don't have to smell it, on a shelf that has a jar of diatomaceous earth on it.

Excellent! Try it for a week and see how it goes.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #6 on: August 14, 2015, 06:31:59 AM
Oh, I'm going to give it two. I openned the ziplock and it just about knocked me off my feet it was so foul.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #7 on: August 17, 2015, 04:17:39 PM
Oh, I'm going to give it two. I openned the ziplock and it just about knocked me off my feet it was so foul.

That is surprising. I am shocked. What exactly stank up the leather in the first place? Maybe it does need a good washing and saddling soaping before soaking in diatomaceous earth or powdered charcoal.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #8 on: August 19, 2015, 04:59:47 AM
That is surprising. I am shocked. What exactly stank up the leather in the first place? Maybe it does need a good washing and saddling soaping before soaking in diatomaceous earth or powdered charcoal.

I have no idea. Just a light washing got it out of the other leather items in my suit carrier. The clothing and bag just needed a round in the washing machine.

If I had to describe the smell, it's like a lot like renin that has been sitting in the sun, with a cloying sweetness. But the knock you over degree of funk isn't there- maybe it had just been building in the bag before I tossed in the diatomaceous. I just checked it, and it's a little funky, but that might have been on the bag. New bag with fresh fossils, then I'll wash it and give it saddle soap in a few days.

What I'm wondering is if either (a) it's got a bad tanning, (b) a bad dying, or (c) it was in storage over a year, after spending a year in my glove compartment with a pair of spares. I'm wondering if maybe I cooked it, and then it spend a year being ignored, and it is just pissed at me. But the owners manual for my car nor the leather sheath of the Buck that I had in there and still have in there have that funk. The other idea I'm open to is if maybe it got splashed with something the last time I wore it at a shindig and somehow I didn't notice, but I'm kind of grasping there.
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Re: Stinking leather!
Reply #9 on: August 19, 2015, 07:07:48 AM
Good saddle soap and if that doesn't work then bury it in powdered charcoal or diatomacious earth. Bad spelling probably. Anyway you should be able to get a good sized, cheap bag from any auto parts store. One of the uses is soaking up oil spills but it is very absorbent and works for a lot of stuff. Powdered charcoal would be better probably but I am not sure where you can get some. Do not try crushing match-light charcoal. You need pure charcoal for this. I guess you could burn a stack of maple like the whiskey distillers do, depending on where you live.

Wouldn't fish aquarium activated charcoal work?
http://www.amazon.com/Marineland-PA0373-Activated-40-Ounce-1134-Gram/dp/B0002566WY/

Then there is also activated charcoal for water pitchers: http://www.amazon.com/Kishu-Charcoal-Activated-Filter-Bottles/dp/B00AW0A8XW/

Check the weight. The fish stuff is probably cheaper.


 

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