[AT] Reconditioning Leather belting

[Mattias Kessén]

How about mink oil or badger grease. I've never seen badger grease but it
should be a real Old time solution.

Mattias
Den 17 jan 2012 18:57 skrev "Cecil R Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>:

> My first engineering job was under an old engineer who started out as a
> surveyor for the city of OKC.  He said when he started up as an
> apprentice, he was required to buy steel toed lace up boots.  The
> procedure was to buy a pint of neatsfoot oil, and they put their boots
> in a bucket of neatsfoot oil.  They would let them soak for a week in
> this bucket.  The pint he brought was to make up what his boots soaked
> up.  Then they would put the boots on a drying rack, with a pan
> underneath that took the runoff  back to the bucket of oil, for 2
> weeks.  Then the boots were ready for any type of work.  He said they
> never leaked and lasted for over 30 years.  He also said that he only
> put one set of soles on them in 30 years.....
>
> For water proofing I have used Johnson's wax melted in a microwave.  I
> would paint it on all theseams and all over the leather of my boots to
> seal the seams from snow.  I am now trying this URAD to see how it
> works.  Like I said, it smells like the old time shoe shop....l
>
> Hey, what happened to Farmer, he used to have a cobbler shop.........
> He sure would have an opinion....
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
> On 1/17/2012 11:23 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
> > Humm.  Maybe it's time to head to Lehman's Hardware in Kidron?  Too bad
> Johnson's in Orrville closed its doors.  They probably had what I'm looking
> for.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gene Dotson"<gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<
> at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:04:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting
> >
> >      Neat is an old English word for cattle. Neatsfoot oil is rendered
> from
> > the feet and shinbones of cattle. A few years ago, I took some Amish
> > neighbors to Mount Hope, Ohio for a horse sale. I took the gentleman to a
> > supply house on the edge of town. He bought a 55 gallon drum of Neatsfoot
> > oil which he supplied to his neighbors for harness maintenance. Seems
> like
> > the cost at the time was about $345.00 for the barrel. Said it would last
> > them about a year.
> >
> >              Gene
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cecil R Bearden"<crbearden at copper.net>
> > To:<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting
> >
> >
> >> I always wondered what they did with the rest of  the animal after they
> >> processed the oil from the foot.  ( I was told that the oil came from
> >> the foot of a Neat, a small orned animal from southern Africa.
> >> Cecil in oKla
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> >>> On 1/17/2012 9:22 AM, Paul Waugh wrote:
> >>>> Very few of the next generation will  even know about Neatsfoot oil :(
> >>>>
> >>>> Paul
> >>>>
> >>> I think I have a bottle of neatsfoot oil on the shelf from a "few"
> years
> >>> ago. Not too surprising that the word is so old that my spell check
> does
> >>> not recognize it.
> >>>
> >>> Ralph in Sask.
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