Excellent idea for an experiment.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Neal Chabot" <sire@...> wrote:
>
> Ernie, do you have a link to "bora-core"? It does
not "google". Similar products have a "patented glycol formula"
that allows penetration into wood. Straight boric acid would
probably not do this effectively.
>
> I'm all for testing. Let's use the analogy of a coffee grounds
(boric acid) and the coffee filter (pc). How much of the ground
coffee beans gets into the coffee and how much weight is stopped by
the filter? So you could mix up some boric acid with water to your
standard specifications, get few pieces of newspaper separated by
spacers, and see how much of the crystals get stopped by the paper.
>
> Neal
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ernie Phelps
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 4:05 PM
> Subject: [papercreters] Re: boric acid one more thing
>
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Neal Chabot" <sire@> wrote:
> > I don't believe the idea of soaking the pc block in boric acid
after
> > it is made would be effective.
>
> =) Disagreement is good, it encourages testing. I don't have the
same
> kind of propane torch as he does, but perhaps I can rig something
up
> similar. I don't think bora-core would have any more trouble
> penetrating into papercrete than it would into dry hardwoods,
which it
> is marketed for.
>
> - Ernie
>
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