Battery Acid Tanning Help

The orange bottled stuff is garbage.
Get a taxidermy supply catalog and order a tanning kit and the Breakthrough tanning manual. Much better than using battery acid.

 

Pro 1 safety acid , order straight from Pro 1

 

Tangle wood and 13Pt are right and if you are trying to buy locally you would be better off using something more safer like vinegar or citric acid which you can buy at any store that sells canning or baking goods

 

Here is your answer use 1/2 pound or 8 ounces of salt and 1/2 ounce by weight of battery acid or sulfuric acid you will end up with a pH of 1.2 and this is very desirable for properly charging the Hide for tanning and cleaning out the unwanted‘s

 

Don't forget to degrease well..neutralizing could take place in the tanning solution if you use a aldehyde formula.

 

DON'T put all the years harvest in one batch, if just starting out. Why tan, for what. Garments, wall hangers, taxidermy. How you going to break or finish the hides. Check your Fur takers Reg, in some states it could make you a Fur Dealer or Taxidermist selling or tanning your own hides PA has some "Different" regs then most states.

 

Yes per gallon of water you will neutralize but that depends on what your tanning material is if you will let me know what the tanning material is then I will tell you how to proceed but do not neutralize until after you have tanned

 

You can take picks, measure, skin (FOR TAXIDERMY) and dry or freeze. Sell them on this sight.

 

If you are going to do that many skins, don't mess with the battery acid and get safer acid from a taxidermy supply. You are going to need a tanning oil anyway.

 

If I was going to make a rug, I would have them professionally tanned. That is just my opinion because to make them as soft as I would want it, they would have to be a quality tan and a ton of work breaking them. When I was younger, I would go for it, but as I have gotten older, I prefer to pay for convince.

 

Odd stuff like all black racoons, Coyotes that are reds, pales and Blacks. Clean unsented skunks, Badgers, foxes and bobcats. You need to have GOOD measurements, the ones used in taxidermy so you know you can get a form for it. Pics of the hide and any damage, and skinned for taxidermy not cased, I would let the buyer skin the feet and head. I would ship then raw, frozen. A lot of hides sell on EBay under taxidermy vary fast.

 

The state of Alaska put out a receipt for garment tan and used aldehyde as the tanning agent. Breaks easily and is washable. Put out for new homesteaders.