Pen Ink Bad Mark:
The “dye-on” dye (anilineDye21) and topcoat (anilineTop54) matte or gloss may be stripped off by the alcohol hairspray that needs replacement.
Grease Stain on Aniline:
Step 1 Grease Spotting – use spotter4.6 onto leatherBrush1 first than onto stain areas to let it dwell 5 to 15 or 30 minutes depends on severity of grease penetration.
Step 2 Preconditioning – use deGrease4.1 spray soak to saturate the grease stain and let dwell another 15 minutes or so.
Step 3 Cleaning – use cleaner3.8 spray soak agitate with leatherBrush1 and extract with towel rag.
Step 4 Acidifier Rinse – use rinse3.0 spray soak and extract.
Step 5 Cover with soft tissue, spray with rinse3.0 for contact.
Step 6 Cover over with a clear plastic sheet or cling wrapper and brush off air bubbles for a tight contact.
Step 7 Remove the plastic sheet carefully and replace with thick towel.
Step 8 Let it dry naturally with the towel.
Step 9 Greasy residue get wicked-up and trapped by the tissue paper when dry.
Step 10 Wicked-up dark residue on leather surface to be dry brushed-off with the same brush.
Step 11 Further residue can be further removed with rinse3.0 spray and extract.
Step 12 Repeat this process until complete soil removal.
Step 13 Original fatliquor diminished through this degreasing process need fatliquor5.0
Step 14 Pull-Up oil or wax effect may need replenishing too!
Step 13 In most severe cases a dye touch-up and top coating may be necessary.
There are lots of in-between drying times.
It may not be practical to perform such work on site.
Customers need to be educated with this sequence of steps to degrease safely and effectively.
So I think the kits may not be sufficient to perform a complete job.
It is wiser to take some good pictures and post it here before commitment.
Please use your kit wisely.
It is recommended that you try it on a variety of small items.
With various leather type – nubuck, suede, aniline, pure aniline, semi-aniline, nude vegetable tanned leathers, suede napalan or pull-ups.
The leather kit products are leather safe for all leather types.
You can fatliquor all leather types too!
The only caution is using the appropriate brush.
LeatherScent’B (buttery) is for pigmented, semi-aniline, simulated and aniline.
LeatherScent’W (waxy) is for suede.
LeatherScent’D (draggy) is for nude vegetable tanned leathers including (leather floor) and wax pull-up.
LeatherScent’S (silky) is for nubuck and pure aniline.
Products are available in concentrates.
Example:
rinse3.0 (1:100)
cleaner3.8 (1:64)
fatliquor5.0 (1:3.5)
leatherScent’B,D,S or W (1:10.5)
superClean4.0 (1:10)
The more you ask!
The faster you’ll learn!
The more practice you have!
The richer you will be!
Roger Koh
Leather Doctor® System