I had a rotted door plate, caused by porch sloping the wrong way. Plate was
salvageable, fortunately, though heavily eaten by termites. I removed all
soft wood, termite droppings, and anything loose; shop vac helped. I
injected a termiticide and let it dry; couldn't tell if termite droppings
post-dated fumigation of 4 years ago. Then I used Bondo. I also redesigned
the porch to remedy the water-collection problem.
"Joe Bobst" wrote in message
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has anybody had experience with this type of product?

Used the repair kit from MinWax, works pretty well. There is also a step
by
step article in a "This Old House" magazine a while back.
Commercial body fillers (bondo type) work very well if the substrate is
decent.
They are usually applied and shaped wirh a cheese grater file while
partially
cured. The final shaping is then relatively easy to do.
HTH

Joe