Holster storage, preservation & packing???

lugerholsterrepair · 05-14-2011, 07:58 PM

Here is an interesting story about storing leather.....I store some of my leather in large plastic bins. I had put some partially finished pieces in a plastic tub over the Winter..they were dyed very heavily..a dark brown. When I came back 6 months later..where ever the leather had touched the sides of the plastic/rubber? box it had bleached out the dye to almost white. Most amazing thing I have had happen to me in some time! The room these are kept in is dark..pitch dark so it wasn't sunlight that did it. Only thing I can attribute it to is whatever chemical is leaching out of the plastic.

So DON"T store holsters in large poly tubs!

05-14-2011, 07:58 PM	#10
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,134 Times in 1,439 Posts	Here is an interesting story about storing leather.....I store some of my leather in large plastic bins. I had put some partially finished pieces in a plastic tub over the Winter..they were dyed very heavily..a dark brown. When I came back 6 months later..where ever the leather had touched the sides of the plastic/rubber? box it had bleached out the dye to almost white. Most amazing thing I have had happen to me in some time! The room these are kept in is dark..pitch dark so it wasn't sunlight that did it. Only thing I can attribute it to is whatever chemical is leaching out of the plastic. So DON"T store holsters in large poly tubs! __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."