Pongy leathers.

Is giving them a short soak in the bath with a bit of detergent, then
rinsing & hanging up to air dry likely to FUBAR them? I don't think
Febreeze is gonna be up to the job this time.

 

Brylcream works wonders for leather.

 

LOL no, just ten days in very hot weather followed by the leathers
sitting in bin bags for two days - it's not pleasant.

 

If we get a sunny day ( remember that bright thermonuclear explosion in
the sky ) turn your leathers inside out and let the sun get to the
smelly bits. The UV light tends to kill off the bugs that make the
smell.

 

Or put them in the fridge.

 

Wouldn't that just preserve the bugs/smell till later?

 

s'wot I fort.

On reflection, lending them to steve might be the best thing for them
- urine is one of the oldest methods for tanning leather, after all...

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Ace wrote

See, I *do* have me uses.

 

Put them in a bin bag with a couple of heaped soup spoons full of
Baking powder/soda.Shake bag and leave overnight.Wipe off with a damp
rag.Baking powder is one of the best odour absorbers,cheap and loads
of uses,

http://www.allthingsfrugal.com/b_soda.htm

HTH

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, flash amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

That's got to be a myth. Chilling something only slows the growth of
bacteria, it doesn't kill it. Freezing is the same.

 

Confused. With or without the spoons? Silver, EPN or will plain old
plastic do?

 

Silly boy<grin>.Of course with the silver spoons as silver kills
bateria,everyone know that.Doh!

 

Shep© wrote

Oddly enough before last Friday I didn't know that. I do now though and
have done for 5 whole days.

 

I'd never, ever, use normal detergent on leather. Saddle soap
(you don't have to rub it in, it can be dissolved in the water,
actually works just fine in washing machine set to "wool") or
something else that says clearly "for leather" on the box.
No need to keep the soak very short, wet is wet no matter
how long.
Some sort of leather conditioner applied, sparingly, just before
they fully dry will make them soft and look better but some
people say this is actually bad for the leather. I know for
sure that bone dry leather will fall apart.

 

OH- says...

Not something I'd do

 

Daft as it is I was being facetious to a silly reply but there was
some truth in the replier's ignorance.Silver kills bacteria but to the
OP,you don't need the spoons in the bin-bag with the leathers,the
baking soda/powder will do the trick.
It's really wonderful stuff.Tea-spoon full in smelly trainers/bike
boots etc and overnight no pongs.Bi-carbonate of soda has superb odour
collection and retention and then you dump it.Basic Chemistry,no
mystery =)

 

I use liquid shoe boot black for obviously black leathers and then
spray with,"Back-to-Black" clear car facia silicone spray.You can get
a big can of this at most automotive stores and it's the same stuff a
Camping shop will charge you four times the amount for as it a,"Water"
repellent and used to water-proof tents and makes the
leathers,"Really" shiney.

My leathers never absorb water or moisture.

There's a dead easy give-away to if your leathers are water-proof.If
you ride in the rain and your leathers have,"Droplets" of water on
them,then you are sealed.If not and the rain/water melts into the
surface,you are not.
Surface tension and all that

PS
Both treatments I use are also one-way osmotic insomuch as the leather
can still,"Breath" out wards from your body and don't clog the pores
of the,"Animal Hide"

 

Ah! I was thinking that maybe there was kind of mechanical advantage
with the spoons adding to the mixing effect through added turbulence.
Or as a catalyst .. or something like that.

It is to me. S'wat comes of having a crap chemistry teacher, I
suppose.

 

Shep© says...

Not something else that I'd do. Silicon spray is nasty stuff to get
into leather if you want to retain its ability to withstand wear and
tear.

 

Me an oldie-ish.We had very strict teachers and got loads of what
seemed, at the time,absolute crap installed/drilled in brain.Funny
tho'.It's all paying dividends now.
Jeez.Even home calculators weren't around when I was at school and
for another 10 years after(Good Band)<grin>.

Silver has long been known to have what would now be deemed as
wondrous properties,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=antibiotic+silver&meta=

as does Gold with it's none corroding and superb electrical properties
and it's malleable properties.

Trivia note(one'o'dem daft ones from me schooldays).

A 1" cube of cold can be beaten flat to cover the size of 5 football
pitchs(English soccer)and can also be beaten until transparent :O