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Preserving rotten wood for a patern?

Mike Miller

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I'm restoring an old car and some of the wood structure is rotten and I'm afraid that when I take it apart that it will crumble to pieces. Is there a product that can be applied that would bind it together long enough to make patterns. If so what's it's name and where to buy?
Thanks, Mike.
 
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G_P

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Fiberglass resin? or a thin epoxy that you could brush on and into cracks to lock it together.
 

Moto

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There is an epoxy product called "Liquidwood" that is used to stabilize rotten wood.
 
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4xdog

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There are also wood stabilizers based on nitrocellulose or ethyl cellulose "lacquers" (can't remember exactly which cellulosic it is) that are dissolved in a low viscosity solvent and can be brushed on to penetrate well into the wood and stabilize it. They should be available at any orange store or blue store. They work fine.
 

shannonw

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you could get epoxy resin + partb gardner from a fiberglass supply (i use it for boats), thin it with acetone a bit it will penetrate pretty well...that what i do when i'm going to use some plywood for core material. But will probably only come in a gallon. I get a gallon of laminating epoxy+hardner for $75 so keep that in mind depending on how much you need. That would surely keep it together...the stuff sticks like no other. for extra insurance glass a thin cloth layer 4 or 6 oz maybe? to keep it together too. Good thing with the epoxy is long shelf life you can use it for a long time for other stuff. Mix talc or cabosil,etc for glue, mix it thicker for filling. mix micro glass bubbles for fairing. Not sure how much of that applies to cars, i use it on boats.
 

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I use this for architectural wood repair - http://www.pcepoxy.com/our-products/wood-repair/pc-petrifier.php

This is the next step up - http://www.pcepoxy.com/our-products/wood-repair/pc-rot-terminator.php

For just consolidating it so that you can remove it and make patterns, the first one should do the trick. If there was just some rot and you wanted to reuse the pieces, I'd go for the second one.

This - http://www.pcepoxy.com/our-products/wood-repair/pc-woody.php - is then an epoxy wood filler that you could use to build up any missing sections.
 
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