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Lodewijk Stegman

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On Jul 11, 5:08 pm, Lodewijk Stegman
wrote:

There's not all that much content in your post.

Maybe you should point out your experiences and your engineering.
I meant what I said when I stated that it's almost impossible to use
wood and epoxy together if you don't rely on it's waterproof
qualities.

Why so narrow minded. I use epoxy as an anhesive and sometimes as a
laminating resin, I use paint to protect wood.

Narrow-minded? I have some experience with epoxy too, and I wonder what
makes you so self assured about epoxy not being waterproof. As far as
'goo's' go, you will have a hard time finding one more waterproof than
epoxy.
Of course everything relative. Glass or steel will be more waterproof
than epoxy, but it is waterproof enough to use it in woodcore boats or
stitch-and-glue boats to make them last for a very long time.

For instance: wood shrinks and swells with changing humidity. Epoxy
won't move with it. How do you engineer that?

Epoxy moves just fine in joints.

It might work with massive wood joints, if the cross-sections are
relatively small. I works better when glueing plywood. The joints last
longest in boats that are designed to be build using epoxy throughout.
Do you build such boats?

In fact it is much more pliable than
polyester,

Cured epoxy can vary in flexibility, depending on the type of hardener
you use. Not every combination works, if you want flexibility.
Comparing epoxy and polyester when talking about gluing is useless.
Polyester resin sucks as a glue for wood.

please leave me alone now. I am not here to teach you about
boats.

Maybe I'm here to teach you about epoxy...

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Lodewijk