"But unless you're using balsa wood or some other extremely soft wood, the penetration of CPES is not very much at all, particularly on harder woods like teak."
Dont know about the commercial product you are ysing , but we always make up our own "Git Rot."
The trick to penitration is to use the mix on damp , not dry wood, and as Git Rot reccomends drill small holes to let it IN!
Any* std epoxy is thinned with alcohol 10% or so and when used the amount of slow hardener is increased by 10% or so.
The alcohol "chases" the water dragging the epoxy into the wood , the extra hardener is to make up for the space taken up by the alcohol.
Sopping wet wood doesn't work well as there would be too much alcohol needed to get to the water.
Try creating your own , its far cheaper and usually better than a re packager does.
But remenber even with epoxy its a patch , not a cure , so structural loads like wave tops should be avoided
FF
-- Edited by FF on Friday 20th of March 2009 04:29:07 AM