RE: Epoxy Questions
Marin, you identified one of the critical factors in successfully dealing with punky wood, and that is drying it out completely first.* Rot Dr. makes it sound like their product can be applied with some moisture in the wood, but that is not my experience.* If there is any, no epoxy, including theirs, will dry correctly.* The best method is as you describe - dry it out completely, remove the rot, soak the wood around the rot with epoxy, then fill or replace.* I soak all plywood edges with thinned epoxy before building anything that will be subjected to moisture to avoid this problem in the first place.* For very moist areas, like an ice box, I have painted a couple of coats of thinned epoxy on before laminating with epoxy glass.
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