Interesting Glue reaction
Barry Irby
I am still wring on my son and DIL's table. They wanted it to have character and Patina. Some of the oak had some old insect damage and I used it. Then I had to laminate another piece to it. I had lift the top sitting in my storage area for about a week. There were a couple of little "streams" of sawdust or frass drooling done. Hmm? Maybe the insect damage was not quite as old as I thought. To be sure the bugs were dead I painted some BoraCare (Borate suspended in glycol) onto the damaged areas and left them to dry over night. Dried the area as thoroughly as I could, even applied a little heat with a heat gun, crapped with a card scraper and sanded the area. Applied a coat of Titebond I and was about to lay on the second piece when I looked closely at the glue. In the area where the BoraCare was it setup or coagulated immediately. Lifted it off as a sheet. This was a small percentage of the area being glued so I went on with the laminating.
Clearly something about the BoraCare caused the glue to setup almost instantly. Interesting. Might have been better to kill the bugs with a dose of lacquer thinner. If that works?
