Killing mold on holsters and preservation

[Sergio Natali]

[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

[Sieger]

[QUOTE=Sergio Natali;331265]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

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

Sergio,

The USA Ballistol IS EXACTLY the original German formula you have in Europe.

The German Army used it, through 1945, on wood, leather goods and for gun cleaning; as it was designed and formulated to do just that.

To date, I have found nothing better!!


Sieger