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Brian Whatcott
 
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Default Resin Injection into soft wood

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:45:30 -0400, "Ed Edelenbos"
wrote:

Why don't you try an experiment on rotten wood and restore it to its
original strength.....or any sigificant strength.



Being in the minority doesn't make one wong. Especially with the
statistically small sampling of boat repairers here.


Ed


Repeating your position does not make you right. Without much of a
stake in the debate either way, I am most swayed when I read that
epoxy has 1/3 the tensile strength of wood.
I remember that 1 in 12 splices are specified when epoxy glueing laths
- and that is evidently to increase the glue surface area - to push up
that tensile strength value.

Brian Whatcott