Stick it in a bucket with ammonia ^1) and it goes black pretty fast (overnight). First noticed (or so I'm told) in stables. Can get some interesting colouring effects with this - especially if you're just on the edge of sapwood.
Most things change colour somewhat with UV, and there's a big difference between UV resistant and UV blocking (or protection in salespeak). 1) ideally you want the vapour to effect the wood - the wood should not be in contact with the liquid ammonia. -----Original Message----- From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 November 2012 00:39 To: st...@pilotltd.net; Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT: Desoldering station minor repair On 24 November 2012 00:22, Steve Blackmore <st...@pilotltd.net> wrote: > Oak goes gray. Eventually it goes nearly black. http://www.bodgesoc.org/Slaithwaite2/Hall.JPG The upper cross-beam and the smoke-hood verticals are about 500 years old, the main tie beam spent 3 years outdoors before the roof went on, and the lower woodwork (door, doorframes, screen) is about 2 years old there, but was waxed after building and has always been indoors. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
