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albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31 Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:41 am | |
| - deekster_caddy wrote:
- So have you tried to remove this yet? The longer it sits the less likely it's going to come off.
it may already be too late. Albertj | |
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manofmany Addict
Name : manofmany Age : 40 Joined : 2008-07-26 Post Count : 611 Merit : 5
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:38 am | |
| I haven't had the chance to do it yet. Gonna try to get it removed today | |
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manofmany Addict
Name : manofmany Age : 40 Joined : 2008-07-26 Post Count : 611 Merit : 5
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:46 pm | |
| Attempted to clean it using dish soap and water, brake cleaner, leather cleaner, gasoline, and degreaser. Nothing worked.
The degreaser made the leather very soft to the point where it would peel off. I got that off real quick. Brake cleaner faded it a little bit. Hmm I'm at a loss. | |
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ibmoses Aficionado
Name : Bert Location : North Alabama Joined : 2008-02-03 Post Count : 1701 Merit : 32
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:05 pm | |
| - manofmany wrote:
- Attempted to clean it using dish soap and water, brake cleaner, leather cleaner, gasoline, and degreaser. Nothing worked.
The degreaser made the leather very soft to the point where it would peel off. I got that off real quick. Brake cleaner faded it a little bit. Hmm I'm at a loss. Did you try WD40? Bert | |
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#1BearsFan Enthusiast
Name : Bill Location : North Carolina Joined : 2008-07-28 Post Count : 231 Merit : 4
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:16 pm | |
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manofmany Addict
Name : manofmany Age : 40 Joined : 2008-07-26 Post Count : 611 Merit : 5
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:24 pm | |
| - ibmoses wrote:
- manofmany wrote:
- Attempted to clean it using dish soap and water, brake cleaner, leather cleaner, gasoline, and degreaser. Nothing worked.
The degreaser made the leather very soft to the point where it would peel off. I got that off real quick. Brake cleaner faded it a little bit. Hmm I'm at a loss. Did you try WD40?
Bert No I didnt have any handy. Will try it first thing tomorrow. If that doesn't work I'm just gonna wash it daily in hopes it fades. The seat was really in immaculate condition prior to the tattoo | |
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turtleman Expert
Name : Codith Age : 37 Location : Villa Park, IL Joined : 2007-02-08 Post Count : 3671 Merit : 140
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:05 am | |
| It needs to be soaked as much as possible. If there is a way to get the leather to absorb some brake cleaner, that would just about take care of it. The other attack would be concentrate on small areas - ie soak a cotton swap in brake cleaner and press against one part and use a twisting motion until the cotton swap appears to have absorbed the ink and then repeat with a clean one. Make sure not to use foaming brake cleaner - just the regular spray stuff | |
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albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31 Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:21 am | |
| I'll reiterate then I'll shut up (for this thread).
Contact the people at http://www.leatherique.com.
For the rest of you: the point is that Leatherique is a small company, family owned by people who use the stuff on their own cars, sell the stuff at reasonable prices, and have an A-list of clients (including the Smithsonian Institution). They can be phoned toll free at 877-395-3366, or emailed (George Pavlisko, Jr.) at lrpltd@bellsouth.net - they are not nuts, and no kidding they will answer your questions, and recommend exactly what you need. If plain ol' saddle soap should be tried first, they will simply say that.
Further - the perverse thing about using solvents on the leather is that they may set the ink, making it unremovable. I suspect that may be what happened with the brake cleaner (which would be alcohol or 1,1 trichloroethane usually) and the gasoline (which is benzine and some other stuff). Worse, you get enough of tahat stuff on the leather and it will attack the foam underneath, making it melt. Dish soap and degreaser both will remove the natural oils form the leather and it will start to crack up.
At this point I suspect the Leatherque people would have to recommend some restoratoin materials. I suspect that for about $125 or so you'd get everything needed to clean, refinish and preserve/rejuvenate the seat. As well as fix sketchy spots on other seats in the same car, like the lower-back bolster on the driver's seat where it cracks.
I have to run.
Albertj | |
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Chicken Aficionado
Name : Mark Age : 58 Location : Montana Joined : 2008-06-13 Post Count : 1296 Merit : 8
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:17 pm | |
| Try Fire!!! FIRE!!! FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chicken Aficionado
Name : Mark Age : 58 Location : Montana Joined : 2008-06-13 Post Count : 1296 Merit : 8
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:18 pm | |
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KillaKeninaRiv Addict
Name : Kenneth Age : 42 Location : Roseville, MI Joined : 2008-05-17 Post Count : 709 Merit : 6
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:58 pm | |
| i would go straight for the hardcore stuff. goof off and/or brasso. harsh, yes, but effective | |
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jase386 Amateur
Name : donovan Age : 46 Location : Greenville SC Joined : 2008-11-04 Post Count : 22 Merit : 0
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:20 am | |
| i would try lexol leather cleaner first to see if it will take it out. or some starting fluid on a rag. I use ether to clean all kinds of things, is expensive, but will work when full power simple green wont.
one other thing to try is look at your local Dollar store for some yellow stuff called LA's Totally Awesome. Its better than simple green for cleaning hard to clean things, but probably isnt as nice to your upholstery. | |
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curious riv Addict
Name : Chris Age : 44 Location : C'view FL Joined : 2008-10-20 Post Count : 521 Merit : 3
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:30 am | |
| Imo if you care about your seats, you shou dnt experiment with them... Listen to Albertj- sounds like good advice | |
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captshiner Junkie
Name : Andrew Age : 38 Location : Cincinnati, OH Joined : 2008-07-23 Post Count : 756 Merit : -1
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:33 pm | |
| Once I put a hot pizza on the passenger's seat and the print on the bag transfered to the leather in the same way. I used a Mr. Clean magic eraser and it worked really well. Test it on a spot that's not seen first, because it is possible that it'll tear up the leather. It didn't mine but I didn't have to scrub it too hard either. | |
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98RIV7777 Fanatic
Name : Anthony Age : 37 Location : Niagara Falls, NY Joined : 2008-06-01 Post Count : 274 Merit : 1
| Subject: Re: OH NO, my leather! :( Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:21 pm | |
| http://www.leatherique.com. This website is deffinately your best bet, just like Albert said. Did you try them yet? | |
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