<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.697.1181680503.5404.caut@ptg.org" type="cite"> <hr size="4" width="90%">Fred Sturm wrote:</blockquote> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.697.1181680503.5404.caut@ptg.org" type="cite"> <div> But some experiments with discarded (but not yet thrown in the stove) bridges or just some maple emulating them might help in developing techniques. Or might show that it really isn't worth the bother, if the effect is negligible. How far will CA or epoxy penetrate? How much of a vapor barrier will the residue on the outside of the bridge be? Probably impossible to answer those questions, but at least one could find out how much a bit of bridge that was treated expanded and contracted compared with one that wasn't treated.</div> </blockquote> Or how about the same piece of bridge measured before and after treatment at different specific moisture contents? Wouldn't that remove yet another variable? - Mark Dierauf </body> </html>