Doesn't harden it - or only a surface layer anyway, if you cut the wood it's back to fresh oak pretty darn quickly. I expect if you left it in long enough it would start to permeate through, colouring and hardening the core.
Since I'm typically aging stuff like: http://bpuk.org/photos/displayimage.php?pid=3&fullsize=1 - which is only 5/8" thick, there's nothing like the thickness needed to drive nails into it. -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: 24 November 2012 06:21 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT: Desoldering station minor repair On Saturday 24 November 2012 01:07:19 Ben Potter did opine: > 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. > How does the ammonia blacked oak compares in hardness to the 200 year old 8x8 beam when trying to drive a nail into it? I have a Bostitch framing nailer that can put a 3.5" cut head into fresh white pine, sinking the head 1/2" deep given 100+ psi in the hose. It was dangerous trying to nail a temp brace to that old oak, it went in about 1/4" and the nail exploded out the front, flying about 40 feet. We wound up drilling pilot holes and manually hammering in the nail enough for the temp braces. And when things were in place, a 3 foot wrecking bar to pull them back out the inch we put them in. Not all came back out, so the brace had to be split away and the nails bent back and forth to break off a few thou below the surface. That stuff was as hard as a rock, came out of the hay mow floor of an old dairy barn over in Maryland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
