Hi MMD family,  Continuing the sealing of leather pouches thread.
Following the sealing of the pouch leather, after the sealant has
dried, the admonition is to dust with pure talc without a cornstarch
additive.  Has anyone ever tried powdered graphite we use to lubricate
sliding wood to wood surfaces in the player pianos?

I realize the applied gray-black color may not be aesthetically
appealing to some of us picky people, but in practice could it produce
a dry lubricated, non-sticky surface to lift a valve, with the proviso
that it not harm the pouch leather?

Years ago I bought a small 'poof'-type squeeze bottle containing a dry,
silvery white graphite-like powder intended to 'poof' into recalcitrant
locks, very slick and dry when tested between thumb and forefinger.
I reckoned at the time that this pearly white color might have been
more appealing than a gray-black.

But alas, by the time I had this brainstorm, my old kiss-of-death curse
had struck.  This happens when I discover something really really neat:
the product is discontinued, never to be seen or heard of again, with
the product's company being swallowed into a earthen hole.  The bottle
reads "CLEAN" DRY-LUBE, "Lubricates Anything That Moves", Reardon
Products, Peoria, Illinois, USA.

Post-brainstorm I even wrote the company, hoping to find another
supply, but with my old kiss-of-death curse, no reply, apparently no
more company; nada, finito, zip.  As result of this curse, I try to
be discrete as possible in buying a favorite product and lay in a good
supply as funds will allow pending another strike of my old curse.

My mother must have offended a gypsy before I was born.

Cursed in Ardmore,

Bill Shirley
Ardmore, OK  73401 USA
bshirley@ardmore.com