Thread: Powder post borer

Good onya Dattashri -thanks mate.

I've got a bit more of this tree - about 1 tonne, so I will give it a go on the next peice I use.

I ended up swapping the top of the table with a bit of Gympie Messmate I had kicking around - couldn't treat 'em in time to send him back with it

This very informative thread indicates that OSMOSE Boracol uses propylene glycol as the solvent.

Unfortunatelly, current OSMOSE MSDS for Boracol indicate that far more toxic Ethylene Glycol is the solvent. See: material safety data sheets

A 'homebrew' equivalent that uses propylene glycol is at:

Wood Rot and Dry Rot Homemade wood treatments

Just updating for future hits.

Regards,
Chris

Thanks for that chris, that website was clear simple with some recipes for a homebrew bug solution that seems to be reasonably safe to use and available from hardware or supermarkets, boron based chemicals, just don't go drinking the stuff

Pete

Ant and Roach powder works good, active ingredient is permethrin just sprinkle the powder, things die, works great on ants termites roaches and most anything else.

Hi Peter,

it's probably long gone, but do you still have that TimBor powder? .. was doing a search for a good anti-fungal and this is one of them. I'm dressing up some old shipping container floor-boards.

here's hoping,

regards,

Dave

Originally Posted by Sigidi

HI Trevor, thanks.

I found a 'borax' based product online, which affirms it does a great job on this kind of thing, but it's American, sold by the gallon at about $100US per gallon and then you have to get it in country...... blah, blah, blah.

I had a look at our local hardware, couldn't find borax to mix up myself, does it go by a different name or am I looking in the wrong place?

The fumigation tent idea sounds good???

Buy a couple of cans of castrol anti freeze and a couple of tubs (500g each) of borax dissolve the borax in warm water and add the antifreeze add 10 to 20 litres of cold water and thoroughly spray the wood with it to the point of run off. This should fix it and make it resistant to termites for your lifetime.

This is basically what timbor is.

Hi Trav,

thanks for that tip. It's a shame Peter hasn't got back to me about that large bag of 'TimBor' .. hope he's still about. in the US it's a cheap as dirt pretty much .. less so than borax with antifreeze .. and it takes the guesswork out.

I think this will probably work though.

regards,

Dave