[SEL] Blow Torch Leathers

[jlb94 at juno.com]

Thanks Francis,
I was thinking of going that route but would rather see if I could find
some 
professionaly made.
It looks like I'm going to have to give it a try.
Thanks,
 
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:01:02 EST FRM8198 at aol.com writes:
> The leather used in the vamp of boots make good leather cups for a  
> pump.  An 
> outside form for your pump leathers can be fabricated from a  tube 
> which is 
> the same diameter as the pump cylinder.  A wooden dowel  shaped to 
> be the same 
> diameter as the inside diameter of the leathers  (there is usually a 
> washer 
> that holds the leather cup in place - use this  diameter for the 
> inside form).  
> Soak the leather in water.  Then force  the leather (with the smooth 
> side 
> down) into the outside form with the  inside form.  Then, let the 
> leather dry.  
> After the unit is dried,  trim the leather to height, punch the 
> center hole, oil 
> the cup,  and install it into the pump.
>  
>  
> Francis  Maciel
> Santa Maria, CA 93454
> 
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/9/2008 6:54:22 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> jlb94 at juno.com writes:
> 
> I  started with McMaster-Carr.
> After searching around - I got  nowhere.
> That's why I'm asking the list.
> 
> 
> 
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