wood preservitive

[TMcNam4510@aol.com]

The adventure continues........I've removed all of the sheet metal from the body tub and can see that almost all of the wood is a candidate for replacement. The thought occurred to me that one of the modern wood deck semi-transparent stains might be a close approximation of what I find on the original wood. Question(s), is there any reason(s) not to use this chemical? Is there a better alternative? Thanks as always, Tom, TC2850, disassembled. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[joecurto@aol.com]

Tom years ago I use a product here in USA called Cupernoil (?) wood is still good after 30 years. it is a clear preservative Joe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Chip Old]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:13 -0400, joecurto@aol.com wrote:

> Tom years ago I use a product here in USA called Cupernoil (?) wood is > still good after 30 years. it is a clear preservative

That's Cuprenol. Good stuff, but like most consumer level wood preservatives now on the market it isn't what it used to be. That's bad for the wood, but good for health and the environment. Many years ago the preservative of choice was Pentachlorophenol, which was used in a lot of wood preservative products. Now it's a banned substance (at least for consumer level wood preservative products) because it causes brain damage. All the wood in TC 6710's body tub was soaked in the stuff, as is a lot of the exterior wood in my 200 year old house. I have no idea how much penta vapor I breathed and how much I absorbed through my skin while applying the stuff, but I'm guessing it was a lot. It's a handy excuse when my brain doesn't seem to be working as well as it should. -- Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271 Cub Hill, Maryland fold@bcpl.net

[ROSS TAYLOR]

Ahaaar That is why we are all brain dead, But Tonight I saw the Cold Case episode with the TC, but they got the Commo's dident they ? Ross in OZ

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:13 -0400, joecurto@aol.com wrote: > > > Tom years ago I use a product here in USA called Cupernoil (?) wood is > > still good after 30 years. it is a clear preservative > >That's Cuprenol. Good stuff, but like most consumer level wood >preservatives now on the market it isn't what it used to be. That's bad >for the wood, but good for health and the environment. > >Many years ago the preservative of choice was Pentachlorophenol, which was >used in a lot of wood preservative products. Now it's a banned substance >(at least for consumer level wood preservative products) because it causes >brain damage. All the wood in TC 6710's body tub was soaked in the stuff, >as is a lot of the exterior wood in my 200 year old house. I have no idea >how much penta vapor I breathed and how much I absorbed through my skin >while applying the stuff, but I'm guessing it was a lot. It's a handy >excuse when my brain doesn't seem to be working as well as it should. > >-- >Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271 >Cub Hill, Maryland >fold@bcpl.net > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >

[FrankGraham]

----- Original Message ----- From: "FrankGraham" frankgraham@msn.com> To: "Chip Old" fold@bcpl.net> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] wood preservative > The 'CU' in the Cupernol name is for the copper content which gives it a > greenish color and it was sold as a marine wood preservative. The copper > keeps barnacles from attaching themselves to the hull. I soaked all of the > wood I used in building a new tub for my TC 30 years ago (Joe told me about > the stuff) and the wood is still sound and not a single barnacle! > -- > Frank > < frankgraham@msn.com > > ______________________