bunkysdad wrote:I am curious to know how Ballistol works on old leather slings. I have an old dry M39 sling that I am trying it on to find out.
It will indeed darken it, but what nay have been unusable will then work like leather again and be useable. I think the price of darkening it and making it useable for the present is an equal trade for what may otherwise be useless. I have tried Jürgen's lotion which is actually what many museum restorers say they use but if it ever does get things pliable again I may not live long enough to see it, So I stick with Balistoll, it does after you get the leather pliable allow it to stretch very thin and I suspect may lead to it eventually breaking at the thin points but so far so good. After a bit the darkness will subside a bit and it returns to a leather like look. Again Balistoll is 99% mineral oil. I have used it for years on my tin wear I cook with at Civil War events and even I don't rust in the rain now? Just think if Ray Bolger had it he might still be alive today! There will be an exam on this statement later today and we will see who is really old enough to know what I really just said!!!
Bill
