Hi Susan, >What viscosity was it to start with? I would compare it to something like very light cooking oil, perhas even thinner. Thicker than water, but thin enough to easily drip from the brush. >Have you tried this experiment using heat to thin the >epoxy after you've put it on the wood? No, I gave up on this product. This is a "penetrating" two-part epoxy that contractors use to reinforce wood that has been damaged by rot. (I have no idea why anyone would want that kind of repair done on their home, but there it is!) I am not near it and can't remember the brand. My thinking is like this: The trunk of the tree transports the liquid between the roots and the leaves, and it's probably super efficient at doing it without sideways loss. I tend to think of wood as large bunch of fairly watertight tubes running from the ground to the leaves. Looking at it that way, it makes sense that no epoxy would get in. I suspect that an epoxy has little hope (except at the endgrain) unless it's thinner than water, and the water molecule is pretty tiny! Note in that picture, there is a crack running along the grain. While the epoxy did make it into the crack, this is really only the equivalent of liquid spilling through a soundboard crack - it still didn't penetrate the wood, it just oozed in. Vladan ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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