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Sergio Natali · 04-30-2020, 12:53 PM

[QUOTE=lugerholsterrepair;331228]YES, IT DOES SEEM TOO SIMPLISTIC WHEN IN ACTUALITY IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT. Ballistol is a PENETRATING OIL. A REPELLENT of air & moisture. Your vintage holsters will become an oil soaked rag and PLEASE! read to the bottom! The Ballistol web site says DON'T USE IT ON LEATHER! Like ANY oil it will eventually harden and burn, acting like the leather has been charred in a fire.

At this point I suppose the BALLISTOL you can find in the States is not like the one we use here in Europe, I can confirm that I 've been using it for decades also on wood and vintage leather holsters, but obviously not on suede, and they are exactly as they were in the first place.
I enclose a link where BALLISTOL oil is advised also on leather.

https://ballistol.de/shop/en/product...rsal-oil?c=192

04-30-2020, 12:53 PM	#15
Sergio Natali User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Somewhere in Northern Italy Posts: 2,646 Thanks: 1,082 Thanked 1,783 Times in 1,007 Posts	[QUOTE=lugerholsterrepair;331228]YES, IT DOES SEEM TOO SIMPLISTIC WHEN IN ACTUALITY IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT. Ballistol is a PENETRATING OIL. A REPELLENT of air & moisture. Your vintage holsters will become an oil soaked rag and PLEASE! read to the bottom! The Ballistol web site says DON'T USE IT ON LEATHER! Like ANY oil it will eventually harden and burn, acting like the leather has been charred in a fire. At this point I suppose the BALLISTOL you can find in the States is not like the one we use here in Europe, I can confirm that I 've been using it for decades also on wood and vintage leather holsters, but obviously not on suede, and they are exactly as they were in the first place. I enclose a link where BALLISTOL oil is advised also on leather. *https://ballistol.de/shop/en/product...rsal-oil?c=192* __________________ "Originality can't be restored and should be at the top of any collector's priority list. Last edited by Sergio Natali; 05-01-2020 at 02:59 PM.