How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

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How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?


Styrene monomer
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Jim K.. wrote:

How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

Styrene monomer

Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

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How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

Styrene monomer

Thanks, and how does it harden wood?


Giyf?
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Richard Tobin expressed precisely :
Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

My guess - Its a plastic, heavily diluted by a solvent. The solvent
evaporates when exposed to air, leaving the styrene behind in the pores
of the wood, making the rotted wood firm again.

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Jim K.. wrote:

How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

Styrene monomer

Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

It basically polymerises and forms and embedded plastic.

Well there are several types, but essentially they are designed to penetrate
the soggy places and holes and glue the left overs together without
expansion.


Bit of a bodge.
Brian

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How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

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On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:50:39 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

It basically polymerises and forms and embedded plastic.

You seem to have inhaled too much of it, you abnormal ossified trolling
geezer.

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On 25/06/2019 08:56, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well there are several types, but essentially they are designed to penetrate
the soggy places and holes and glue the left overs together without
expansion.


Bit of a bodge.

A bodge that can work quite well if the the hole is then filled with car
body filler.

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On 24/06/2019 23:50, Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
Jim K.. wrote:

How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

Styrene monomer

Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

It has a low surface tension and wets out dry porous wood before
polymerising into hard polystyrene plastic when exposed to the air. It
works reasonably well provided that the remaining wood is more or less
approximately sound. It cannot work miracles on powdery dust though.

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In article ,
Jim K.. wrote:

How does wood hardener work? Is it essentially dilute glue?

Styrene monomer

Thanks, and how does it harden wood?

WHO KNOWS BUT IT TAKES THE PLACE OF THE CELLULOSE ANYWAY ....****...not
typing that again