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Hydrated lime vs Dolomite

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El Destructo:
Every Supermarket that I have ever been in has Ball and Kerr Jars....and right next to them is Pectin for making Jellies...and Pickling Lime for Pickling Pickles....thats all you need....it is food grade....no Sludge and mud ...like the Masonry kind.....

AKAPK:

--- Quote from: El Destructo on December 07, 2008, 04:58:56 pm ---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

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Just used the Borax to clean, kinda loosens the hide but not as much as lime,takes more elbow greese not using lime though :)

BigWapiti:

--- Quote from: El Destructo on December 12, 2008, 08:25:14 pm ---Every Supermarket that I have ever been in has Ball and Kerr Jars....and right next to them is Pectin for making Jellies...and Pickling Lime for Pickling Pickles....thats all you need....it is food grade....no Sludge and mud ...like the Masonry kind.....

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Went to three grocery stores again today, asked different workers - nobody has pickling lime this time of year, they said come back during the summer when people are pickling...  Safeway, Fred Meyer, Albertsons


I did get the hide bucked and scraped fine enough with that dolomite - just was tough work - but then, I have nothing to compare to.   I did get the layer to expand as shows/explained in the book this way.  Next time though I think I'll use wood ashes or lime from a garden center (tho, they too are probably out until spring).

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