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I'm used to getting cosmoline out of wood stocks and metal parts, but I just picked up a Mosin from Big 5 and found that the sling and pouch had cosmo on them that came from the little oiler can (that can had more cosmo on it than the last two rifles I've cleaned!!). Does the standard "boil in water" method work on leather, or is there a better way?
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If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
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I think my first attempt would be plain old soap and warm water. Soaking leather in water and/or boiling it isn't going to do the leather any good. You might try calling a tack shop or a cobbler for suggestions."I don't like repeat offenders, I like DEAD offenders!" ~Ted Nugent
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Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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leather when soaked in water tightens and shrinksComment
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Thanks, I don't know anything (obviously) about working on leather. I'll try the hair dryer method.If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
--ThucydidesComment
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Might be able to get out cosmoline stains with saddle soap.Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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