Paging Lozzo - part OT

Leather care question for you - Japanese car leather seats, leather is very
much dried out but not ripped or damaged (on the passenger seat, the
driver's seat needs a bit of recolouring anyway). What's the recommended
hide food to "rejuvenate" them? Connolly's?

Also, any idea when you'll be able to pick up the battery I have still going
spare?

 

Timo Geusch said...

Connolly hide food won't help it because it's designed to work with the
old vegetable tanned leather, Japanese leather is all chromium tanned.
I'd recommend Gliptone Liquid Leather for more modern seats. The trouble
with Japanese leather is they over-process it to remove the smell as the
genetic olfactory make-up of orientals makes the smell of natural
leather offensive to them. This does make it particularly dry to start
with, and it cracks very easily. Liquid Leather does put back a lot of
the natural oils which help leather stay supple and if you use the
conditioner as well you'll regain that natural leather smell.

I'd forgotten about that. I've got your number and will be passing by
yours in the first week of April.

 

Timo, wtf is this stuff ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^?

 

Rather odd that. Doesn't show in my newsreader here (KNode, which normally
Does The Right Thing).

Does it look better now? If yes, I'll probably have to fiddle with the way
it attaches the .sig.

 

Ah, OK. Figured you would know the answer.

Ta muchly, I'll be ordering some of that stuff then. Including the
conditioner .

OK, no probs. I may even be working from home one day that week.

 

Your newsreader going nuts...

 

So it wasn't before then?

 

mb said...

No.

 

It didn't show in Xananews. Proper newsreader

 

Sorted now. Never spotted it, previously.

FWIW, I'm using Gravity 2.60 (build 2060), ANSI codepage 1252.