Thread: dishwashing liquid treatment

Think this must be what the things I read are referring to ............ bottom of page

Ron Kent

Couple of threads on the forum mention mixing dishwashing liquid + water 50/50 to treat timber

Took me ages to find that - my google seaches gave heaps of hits on washing verandah decks and putting wooden things in the diswashing machine and how to wash the great wooden bowl that somebody gave you

Bill

Howdy steamingbill,

Many thanks for not only sharing this link, but for your apparent endless efforts in tracking it down. I had also heard about this 'technique' some time ago and had wanted to (at that time) look into it more but, time passed and I forgot all about it....so, many thanks to you for RE-minding me about it, and RE-igniting my curiousity trigger.

It also RE-minded me of a slight variation on the technique I had thought of back when of combining the dish soap medium with the use of the same vacuum chamber I use to stabilize such woods as buckeye burl.....just a thought at the time, but now because of your bringing that old plan back to the forefront of my mind, I think I will finally give it a try!

My only further curiousity is, how it might work on denser woods further up the Janka......oh well, perhaps I'll also give THAT a go.


Thanks again pard'


Buck.