crossthread
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2004
- Location
- Richmond,VA,USA
Good morning. I use quite a bit of leather and was wondering if others do as well. When I suggest the use of leather I sometimes get some funny looks from folks. I think it may be considered as a backwoods, hillbilly material. I use it for a lot of things around the shop and have for enough years to know that it is an amazingly durable and useful material. I read in another post where someone was having trouble holding a rod in a vise while threading and my first thought was to put leather between the jaws to pad and grip the rod. Leather is very useful for "soft jaw" applications. I use it for gaskets, soft washers to keep dust out of bushings, simple and easy hinges where applicable, isolation material etc. It is impervious to most solvents and oils and actually thrives in most lubricants. Do you use it and if so do you have any novel applications? Thanks.