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Re: Sanding sealer
By:Chris
Date: 11/9/2000, 8:09 am
In Response To: Sanding sealer (Bruce Hewitson)

: Are their any problems with sealing the wood with a standard wood sanding
: sealer prior to epoxying? Epoxy is *very* expensive here and I imagined
: that a basic wood sanding sealer application may be useful in limiting the
: soak-up of epoxy by the raw wood surface. - bruce

If you have some sanding sealer, make several tests with epoxy, i.e. joints, cloth, etc. I you do not, contact several manufacturers for samples. However, if you read the epoxy suppliers best practices recommendations, epoxy works so well with wood because it bonds deep into the pores of the wood. Lets us now what you find. Chris

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Sanding sealer
Bruce Hewitson -- 11/9/2000, 3:35 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/13/2000, 11:38 pm
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Kelly Trehearne -- 11/14/2000, 10:58 am
thanks for the update
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/15/2000, 12:40 am
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George Cushing -- 11/13/2000, 3:55 pm
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Bruce Hewitson -- 11/14/2000, 4:07 am
Don't
Jay Babina -- 11/9/2000, 9:29 am
Re: Sanding sealer
Chris -- 11/9/2000, 8:09 am