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Stabilizing wood

nimrod

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I've used Ultraseal Wood Stabiliser, a vacuum chamber and a toaster oven to stabilise blanks the initial results seem quite good but its expensive costs me about 85pence a blank. I've turned some treated blanks but not made a pen yet due to other projects, family visits and a leaky flat roof, but hopefully I will put that to rights in the near future.
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Woody said:
Hi Dylon:
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Isn't that something that violet uses for the quilts.?

I have used thin ca, but can't put up with the stink..:sob:

Tried the rom seal dry rot, worked fairly well , but as the ol farts say,if it's rotten stick it in the bin.. Sorry but have to agree with the age of experience on here.. :funny:
 
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I did the button on many occasions but not when it mattered on parade days.
I was at the tattoo hauling cannon in 1968 if memory serves me right.
 
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Grump said:
I did the button on many occasions but not when it mattered on parade days.
I was at the tattoo hauling cannon in 1968 if memory serves me right.
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Or did the poor ol git imagine it all Its a combination of his age and the medication you know it sent him a bit funny shame :winking::winking:
 
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Woody said:
Or did the poor ol git imagine it all Its a combination of his age and the medication you know it sent him a bit funny shame :winking::winking:
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OOh don't start me off dad I ain't arf had some weird dreams lately, so real too some of em.

And at the rate I am losing weight I wonder if a trip to quack might be in order init?

I was 15. 14 when I started this job and weighed in at work today at 14.3 ain't been ear a munf yet init?
 
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Grump said:
OOh don't start me off dad I ain't arf had some weird dreams lately, so real too some of em.

And at the rate I am losing weight I wonder if a trip to quack might be in order init?

I was 15. 14 when I started this job and weighed in at work today at 14.3 ain't been ear a munf yet init?
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Well Brian, you'll be able to put that mankini on you bought for the beach after all, go on post a pic!
 
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Brian, PLEASE, PLEASE don't put a mankini on and post a picture. :down::down::down::down::down:

What is the job you've got thats making you loose weight? it wouldn't be tapeworm testing by any chance would it? :funny::funny::funny::funny::funny:
 
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paulm said:
Brian, PLEASE, PLEASE don't put a mankini on and post a picture. :down::down::down::down::down:

What is the job you've got thats making you loose weight? it wouldn't be tapeworm testing by any chance would it? :funny::funny::funny::funny::funny:
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Mankini been there dun that, went down like a lead balloon init? Job I can't tell you I am working for a huge pharmaceutical company on their confusers.
Only a temp job till the end of March by which time I might weigh in as a 7 stone weakling hopefully.
 
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Neil said:
Buckeye burl (as the Americans call it) is frequently stabilised and you can get it like that from Stiles and Bates amongst others, but I turn it raw, if you cut it, it turns, if you scrape it theres nothing left, but then were turners aren't we, not scrapers, thats something you do on the pavement after you've trod in something nasty.

I'm with Brian, if its that rotten its in the bin.
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Neil, inclined to agree with you on the effect stabilizing timbers like Buckeye Burl however the end result is so fantastic its worth the effort I have lots of untreated Buckeye that is like balsa wood and about as useful. Every time I use plastic it makes me curse the ribbons of rubbish that congest everything but then again they have their place as well. I have a superb example of pen parts and a couple of American Quarters to turn some time soon.

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Hi ,
I've just bought a couple of large paint pressure pots and a piece of 1" perspex for the top of one of them to use as a Vacuum chamber for stabilising wood, haven't set it up yet, but when I do I'll put some photos up, I'm going to use the other pressure pot as a casting pot to encapsulate the stabilised woods in resin.

Probably a couple of months away from a finished article but I'll; take the photos.

Regards

Kevin
 
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