27-04-2022, 11:57 AM
Colin
I was taught many years ago that the only way to get rid of woodworm was to burn the wood.
So 5 minimum. 6 ideally.
Sometimes the worm is so extensive that doing 6 or even sometimes 5 means the item becomes uneconomic to repair and it would realistically cease to exist, and be a replica.
I have a number of friends who have preserved pieces of agricultural machinery known as threshing boxes (the forerunner to combined harvesters). These suffer greatly from wood worm, and frankly are generally worthless once affected. The cost of replacement makes them uneconomical. So they do 1. or 2. which my guess is due to the size of some timbers makes c0ck all difference.
Personally I wouldn't store an item with 'worm' anywhere near anything timber not affected. Certainly unaffected softwood items.
The Festiniog Railway had a similar issue with 'Tin Worm' and Welsh Pony (a railway locomotive stored for lots of years by the sea). They have effectively mostly recreated it in new metal. A.K.A a Replica.
I was taught many years ago that the only way to get rid of woodworm was to burn the wood.
So 5 minimum. 6 ideally.
Sometimes the worm is so extensive that doing 6 or even sometimes 5 means the item becomes uneconomic to repair and it would realistically cease to exist, and be a replica.
I have a number of friends who have preserved pieces of agricultural machinery known as threshing boxes (the forerunner to combined harvesters). These suffer greatly from wood worm, and frankly are generally worthless once affected. The cost of replacement makes them uneconomical. So they do 1. or 2. which my guess is due to the size of some timbers makes c0ck all difference.
Personally I wouldn't store an item with 'worm' anywhere near anything timber not affected. Certainly unaffected softwood items.
The Festiniog Railway had a similar issue with 'Tin Worm' and Welsh Pony (a railway locomotive stored for lots of years by the sea). They have effectively mostly recreated it in new metal. A.K.A a Replica.