RE: Sweet gum wood

[bulkeley]

No  I never have, I usually just throw it out, but I must try it some day. I 
have also been told you can just leave  them in the hot sun for a couple of 
days will dry them out I will try it on the next piece I dry out

Bill

 

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Subject: Re: Sweet gum wood

 

Bill, 

Have you tried "renewing" the kitty litter. By that i mean taking it out and 
drying it in an oven or some other hot space? Chem labs use desiccant to draw 
the moisture out of samples and it turns from blue to pink when it has absorbed 
moisture. You can then put the desiccant in an oven to dry it out and re-use 
the crystals. 


On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 5:03:03 AM UTC-5, aussiman wrote:

kitty litter crystals is made of silica gel I just leave covered in the litter 
in a sealed container usually for a couple of months depending on wood 
thickness changing the crystals every few weeks or when the few coloured 
crystals change colour if the litter has the few coloured crystals in it mine 
does.

and keep weighing the wood it till it stops getting lighter. I don’t bother 
recharging or drying out the crystals kitty litter is cheap I just throw it 
out. And this method does seem to help stop cracking by drying the wood evenly 
all over provided it is totally submerged in the crystals. There is a video out 
there somewhere of carl Jacobson doing the same thing in rice.

 

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Re: Sweet gum wood

[Dexter Bland]

Bill, 
Have you tried "renewing" the kitty litter. By that i mean taking it out 
and drying it in an oven or some other hot space? Chem labs use desiccant 
to draw the moisture out of samples and it turns from blue to pink when it 
has absorbed moisture. You can then put the desiccant in an oven to dry it 
out and re-use the crystals. 

On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 5:03:03 AM UTC-5, aussiman wrote:
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> kitty litter crystals is made of silica gel I just leave covered in the 
> litter in a sealed container usually for a couple of months depending on 
> wood thickness changing the crystals every few weeks or when the few 
> coloured crystals change colour if the litter has the few coloured crystals 
> in it mine does.
>
> and keep weighing the wood it till it stops getting lighter. I don’t 
> bother recharging or drying out the crystals kitty litter is cheap I just 
> throw it out. And this method does seem to help stop cracking by drying the 
> wood evenly all over provided it is totally submerged in the crystals. 
> There is a video out there somewhere of carl Jacobson doing the same thing 
> in rice.
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>

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