by Roly Nelson » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:07 am
Oh boy am I confused. I guess my question is simply, can I use an epoxy to seal the end-grain of my wooden doors and hatch lid edges, and then simply paint them? When doing some boat-work some years ago, I coated some wood with 2 part epoxy, and it seems to have sealed the wood grain very nicely. Seemed nice and shiney plus it was waterproof.
All I want to do, is to seal many exposed edges of doors, windows, hatch lid and so on, mainly to keep out the water. I just want to keep it cheap, slop on some inexpensive paint and hopefully, end up with a tear that won't delaminate in the first rainstorm. I guess in my uninformed carpenter-like training, I seem to think that if exposed edges of glued together pine and plywood, are coated with epoxy, no water will penitrate and the results will be sucessful.
Am I on the right track, or would I be making a big mistake by coating these members, with a 2 part epoxy material?
Will paint stick to this stuff, so that I won't have to be doing some repair work because I failed to understand the compatibility of the 2 products? Help me out here, I am patient and will await any logical info.
Roly.............. cautioning anyone, that whenever you roll your tear over on it's top, in order to coat the bottom with roofing pitch, be sure to sweep the workshop floor absolutely clean, or else any little obstruction will punch a hole in the 1/8" roof plywod.
Duh, now I have had to glue a "dumb, hole-in-the-roof concealer", with a hand-carved mustache block of wood on the inside, to hide my mistakes. I learned many years ago, that we woodworkers often screw up, but eventually you just have to learn how to cover up these errors, so no one is the wiser. Has anyone been there, done that?