I am new to the site and have a question. How do you clean the seats before treating the leather. I have a lot of surface dirt that shows up when you wipe the seats down. The truck was my wife's before we bought her something else to drive. I am located in southeast texas. I do enjoy the site a lot of good information on it.

Tom

 

Unless the seats are very dirty, the usual proprietry brands of cleaner/feed, will do both jobs at once.
Some of us have been more than happy with the recommended KR treatment from the saddle shop, others have used Lexol with good effect.
Plenty of previous threads will give you more detail.

 

We've talked about this one quite a bit...

For CLEANING, I like the Tanners Preserve leather cleaner. Seems to do a really good job.

DO NOT USE THE LEXOL pH BALANCED CLEANER... their conditioner is all I use but the CLEANER IS NOT A GOOD PRODUCT (in my opinion). I know dufunnel had some problems with it messing up his steering wheel.

Before I tried any chemicals, I'd really try the soft terry cloth/water method. Just don't scrub the leather and you'll simply push the dirt/grime farther into the pores.

RP

 

I have had good results using McGuires Leather Cleaner first, followed by King Ranch Conditioner. I have also used Johnson's Baby Soap to clean some other leather, also with good results.

 

So the Johnson's Baby Soap worked out? I never really heard many folks discuss their results with it after application and was wondering how it worked out.

How did it do on the stitching? I'm really interested in 'whitening up' to make it look new again. The leather looks great but the stitching looks a little grungy.

RP

 

Sorry for delay - audit & budget time at the office.

Used the Johnson's on my wife's purse - had fairly large stain from skin oil from wife's arm. Applied soap directly with fingers - no dilution - then used soft wet sponge to remove soap. Stain was significantly reduced. (Purse was several years old, so stain had built up over long period) Will reapply, then use the conditioner, and advise on results.

Used McGuires Conditioner on my western boots. Improved looks greatly.

 

Cleaning?

Use some Gas or Varasol the stains will be history, NO I' am jokeing.

I just a mild solution of dish Soap and a soft rag. However, I keep my King Ranches a average of 4 months before there gone so I don't know what a wore seat really looks like. I had a bad Pipe Dope stain in my seat one time off the threads of a 10 inch button bit and I thought it would never come out and I was told to get this stuff called big orange from a company called Zep Manufacturing and it worked fine.

Pat\Bluelightning

 

Pipe dope stain ???

 

Sounds like somebody was using his truck for recreational purposes.

 

It's the 'goop' (for the lack of a technical word) that plumbers and pipe fitters use to join two pieces of threaded metal pipe.... They put some on the threads so that there are no leaks. Similar to teflon tape but goopy.

RP

 

OOHHH !!

It's all clear now..... uummmm.

 

OK, RP is once again the veritable fount of knowledge...

My question is, WHAT the HECK IS a "10 inch button bit "? And why would it have "plumbers goop" on it? (OK RP no Google allowed! )

Pooh

 

Not sure why it'd have plumbers 'goop' on it...

But, come on man... I'm a geologist here.... I'm supposed to know about 'bits'.

Typically carbide tipped, they're used for eating through rock... drillin' baby!

RP

 

But "BUTTON" bits? And still doesn't explain the plumbers goop ..

I spend WAY TOO MUCH time looking for weird conspiracies

Pooh

 

Umm...

are they related to Bacon Bits?


Button bits, as I know them, are:




Like I said, typically carbide tips on those 'rotors' and the effectively 'eat through' rock. These are used on air rotary rigs where the chips are brought to the surface utilizing a BIG compressor.

Where am I missing the boat here?

RP