[Healeys] leathers

[barrie at look.ca (Barrie Robinson)]

You do remember that leather used to be tanned using human urine - do 
you not?  Does a great job too !


At 06:21 PM 5/19/2011, Eric (Rick) Wilkins wrote:
>And some of the old simple "chemicals" were dropped in favor of high
>tech solutions. Hide glue and other animal products like horse hair
>are a big part of the smell that was lost to plastic resin glues and
>such.
>
>Wilko
>
>>
>>  What I find is that NO leather smells like
>>that anymore as tanning chemicals and techneques have completely
>>changed. Is
>>that true??    Mike Gougeon   '56 BN2
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Barrie
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