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My son is tanning two diamondback rattlesnake skins. The one I killed in my driveway has ten rattles and a button. The recipe calls for lysol, laundry detergent, alum, salt, neets foot oil, and phenol.
Anyone know where to get phenol? We've tried the drugstores, hardware stores and the web. No luck yet.
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I remember as a kid we has a bottle or two of Carbona cleaning fluid...it was used to get spots ot of clothes. I believe that was carbolic acid, and I believe it was taken off the market for some health reason, some years ago. I'm not real sure about this, but I think I have most of the facts straight.
Maybe a dry cleaners would still use the stuff somehow....I would check there first.
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However, there are some really good and modern tanning agents around that work great and are much safer. Do u want to tan it for mounting? or do u want to tan it for leather. two different processes.
there are dozons of idea on da net for this..
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Thanks everyone, Curtis, I think he wants to process it as leather. I don't like the idea of the phenol. Ingesting one gram is supposed to be enough to kill a person and it absorbs quickly through the skin. Maybe we should find something else.
Thanks for the websites Elaine!
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Maybe we should find something else.
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