G.P. Small Tent: Canvas Treatment ..... Cosmoline and Diesel?

[CharlyArmy]

When I was a young buck Sargent, I seem to remember that we would use a 50/50 mix of cosmoline and diesel fuel to treat the canvass bed covers for our deuces.

Is old age playing tricks on my mind or does that mixture sound familiar to anyone.

What do you guys use for your canvas?

 

[CharlyArmy]

Nobody has anything?

 

[hndrsonj]

I would think that would be a bad combination.

 

[Chief_919]

That would be a bad mix- not only would the smell never go away but the result would be highly, highly flammable where the original treatment was fire resistant.

The product you seek to do it right is CANVAK, here is a link to it.

 

[MWMULES]

Yep what the Chief says, Canvak.