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BigWapiti:
Can Dolomite used as a lime for soaking hide for expansion and then slipping hair? 

I have a full bag of dolomite and need to get this hide soaking before it dries out.    Will Dolomite work? ???

El Destructo:
Is it Dolomitic Limestone or just Dolomite??? I wouldn't use Dolomite because it isn't Lime at all....it is calcium magnesium carbonate ....CaMg(CO3)2....if you are in need of something fast to remove Hair....Pickling Lime from the Grocery Store in the Canning Supplies works really good....and you cant overdo it....because it will only dissolve to it's saturation point and the rest will just lay on the Bottom

BigWapiti:
Well crap... thanks for the reply El D.  -- I got impatient - read ahead to some other posts that said Garden Lime is okay.. and since this was sold as a garden lime, well I thought....  argh.  maybe I should take it to the irrigation ditch and get it soaking to clean it up and run into town.  Town is a ways tho....  ugh.  me and my impatience -I'm not sure which is worse sometimes. heh

added:
Not sure which is it, but its ingredeints aren't simply LIME I know that.

El Destructo:
Hydrated Lime is Garden Lime.....and it is mainly.....Calcium hydroxide.....same as Pickling Lime....but a cruder form....thats all.... where  dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate) and dolomitic limestone are added to soils and soilless potting mixes to lower their acidity ("sweeten" them). .....I dont't know what it would do for slipping Hair on a Hide.....may work.....someone else posted that they use 20 Mule team Borax....so maybe Dolomite will work.....I just dont use the Garden Lime....because it makes a Muddy Mess on the Hide............JMO

Stonedog:
I always use lye in water to slip hair....

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