Q. |
When I was
working on my car, I rested my knee on the seat, and now
I have a small pressure ding in the leather, where my
knee was. Can this be fixed? |
A. |
You have stretched your leather and
probably from the sweat on your knee, the water actually
helped the leather to stretch even more...when they
stretch leather in the tannery, it is wet and then dried
in the stretched position. What I would do...you need to
shrink your leather fibers back to their original
position, we would use a heat gun to actually heat out
the dent, but in your case, not knowing how much heat is
needed could be very dangerous, you can actually shrink
the leather so much it will look like a burnt spot and
thus need replacing. To be on the safe side, try using a
hair dryer on the high setting, it will get nowhere near
the 1500 degrees Fahrenheit that a heat gun can do which
would then burn your leather. Go in circles around the
area, each one coming closer to the center. In effect you
really need to shrink the surrounding area to pull this
low spot out. Repeat this process as it will be slow
using a low heat. Do it maybe twice or three times, let
it cool and go again to be on the safe side.
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