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I was the boat guy with the odd, unproven idea...
here is the text from the old post... ---------------------------------------- Up here in the humid boating areas, they sell a product called Mil-Du-Gas bags. Meijers used to carry them for your basement, but now the boating supply stores carry them too. http://www.shipstore.com/SS/HTML/STA/STA89900.html Anyway the idea is you hang them in a humid confined space (a big baggie might work) and it kills the spores. I have used them in my basement. A bit more web checking came up with this: http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-p...=MIL%2dDU%2dGAS seems the active ingredients are: PARAFORMALDEHYDE 1,4-DICHLOROBENZENE Ahh, better living through chemicals. Maybe I was better off before I knew WHAT was in the things. Anyway, what about tossing one in a baggie with you mildewed leather for a month or so. These Mil-Du bags are made out a a filter paper kind of material and the powder & stuff doesn't come out of the bag, it's supposed to become airborne. It's not a strong chemical odor, kind of a baby powder scent to the thing. ---------------------------------------------------- John Sabato then warned about experimentation on a fine luger holster, and suggested the testing on a less valuable specimen. So that was the idea - it does the trick in boat interiors and basements, we just don't really know about fine leather of any age. Regards, Fritz. |
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