what are the properties in penetrating epoxy that allow wood to breath whereas other epoxies do not?
Look forward to your explanation, and our future communications.——————-gary Gary: Good suggestion, and we’ll try an deal with it. I do think the problems is just that most folks think of epoxy as a fairly thick encapsulating liquid, which of course won’t breathe. The penetrating epoxy mixes up at about the consistency of diesel fuel, which is pretty thin, and it has a tendency to encapsulate itself in and on the wood fibers rather than the spaces in between. If you put enough of it on then it WILL encapsulate. It’s kind of a hard thing to demonstrate (and I know from experience that shipwrights want proof — and I don’t blame them) We are now considering microscopic analysis with attached camera equipment as a way of taking photographs that might be helpful. You can test this empirically by using your mouth to push air through an untreated of standard marine lumber, then giving it a coat of the penetrating epoxy and trying the same test again. You can still push the air thr
