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Originally Posted by Sdiver
....or anyone else who works with leather(s).
Picked up a new Garand awhile back, and finally got around to striping it and giving it a good cleaning.
The lanyard is the original (the gun came out of SA in '42) and has some small cracks in it, but for the most part it looks to be in fairly good shape. It seems to have "sweated" some, in that it feels "tacky" and feels like it has a film over it.
The brass has also "sweated" some, had to clean some green "golps" off of where they sat on the leather.
Anyone have any good cleaning or restoring tips I could use to restore and help protect it.
Most appreciated.
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Are you talking about the sling?
Never saw a Garand with a lanyard.
TR
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