Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing Termites and ash frames?

Oh, crap!

Sigh! That means I have to reconsider this whole thing. I am so sensitive to "stuff" it has forced me to revision how I work and with what I work, changing my "career" and so on.

One more thing to consider

Perhaps I could remove all the wood (or "plates" as it were), wearing a respirator and cover the lot with epoxy or lacquer, encapsulating the fungicide.

This is a downer, TBH. I thought that I could pull the trigger when the real weight was published, but this is a real concern that could render a purchase useless to me.

Go the radical way of my buddy Hugo. He changed all the wood of the frame of his 1972 +8 to aluminium. I don't agree with everything he did but the doors with integrated frames are beautiful. According to him the car is less than 15 lbs. heavier than before.

Frank

PS: He is the best welder I have ever seen.

AQM, I forgot: Cars built before 1982 weren't treated with wood preservatives and new cars could probably be ordered with untreated wood.

Frank

He he, yeah, that is certainly not an option for me. I don't weld. Especially not aluminium.


Oh, good. That might be an option.
The ideal situation for me would be to be allowed to epoxy coat all the framing before assembling the thing, and then ask to have every hole made to stick the siding to it to be filled with epoxy or normal glue.

That would probably make it twice as expensive though.

I need to give this serious thought, even though I'm absolutely taken with this thing, despite all the chrome crappola on the finished version. However, my antichrome stance is just one of taste, the other issue is a serious one to me.

Some background info here..........http://www.allaroundthehouse.com/lib.stu.t3.htm.. Personally I think the chance of infestation in modern pressure treated wood is low, but if you were doing a restoration that would be different. I'm not about epoxying as you could trap both moisture and larvae - on the other hand you would stop MORE moisture soaking in. Heat treatment or an electro-gun might be the best non-chemical options.

I have built wood epoxy boats, and if it's dry enough, it's all good. Any larvae in epoxy encapsulated wood will surely die from lack of oxygen.

Heat treatment would also dry it out - I hadn't even thought about that, which is pretty stupid of me, considering most commercial wood these days are kiln dried.

Is that why Aussies do not wear clogs?

I just love this Website

I wouldn't go for epoxying an ash frame. To my opinion it's too flexible.
You could consider an approach to Palsgaard Træ in Gl. Hampen. They make "Superwood" which I belive is made on a "natural basis"

There's nothing wrong with epoxying something flexible. Epoxy can flex if its put on something flexible.
I don't want to be making a new frame from scratch. That's way too much work.