Quote Originally Posted by ccdjg View Post
It sounds to me as they have been using what the leather trade call "bonded leather", made from real leather shreddings which have been pulped and mixed with bonding agents and compressed. In my opinion, to sell airgun seals made from it is absolutely diabolical, just to save a few pennies. I would certainly ask for my money back, as this is misrepresentation.
As we all know, a real leather airgun seal can last for more than 50 years, so why use this reconstituted rubbish? A cheap plastic seal would last longer.
I binned it mate, should have known better than to waste my time fitting it as it was so hard & a looser fit than the old original one then I could've got my nearly £20 back it cost
, got it up to full power eventually with the old seal after a good soak in my trusty hempseed oil with a HW 97 spring in it, which incidentally i just found out fits the fwb sports a treat too.