Okay. Never mind my questions. I found upon reading further that all were answered.
Doug
> It only requires 15-20psi . Bicycle pumps have been used with great success.
> Check out this link to info from Walter Liese and Satish Kumar's Bamboo
> Preservation Compendium.
> http://www.emissionizero.net/libri_-_Sap_Replacement_Treatment_-_Preservation_Compendium_Walter_Liese.html
> or http://tinyurl.com/4adsuw
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> Jim
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> DGHarrison wrote:
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>> And then, of course, there are lots of class action lawsuits in the U.S.
>> because "pressure treated lumber" was not treated with enough pressure
>> to get the chemicals to saturate the wood. (Window recalled/replaced
>> when poorly treated lumber was used.) I'm not sure what the standards
>> are for this sort of thing, but it seems to me that a bicycle pump isn't
>> going to provide much more than 70 psi. I understand that bamboo is not
>> very porous to begin with, so is that enough for satisfactory treatment?
>>
>> Doug
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>>> Hi paulin, why do you need to go through all the trouble. Just make a air tight container, pressurize it using simple bicycle pump and then let the chemical (boron/borax) ooz out of the hose that are connected to the tank.
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>>> YOu can check out how we did at www.abari.org/treatment
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>>> Nripal Adhikary
>>> Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute
>>> http://www.abari.org
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>>> --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Paulin T <ptangning@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>> From: Paulin T <ptangning@yahoo.fr>
>>> Subject: [bamboo-plantations] How to build and operate a pressure tank for chemical treatment?
>>> To: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
>>> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 7:45 PM
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to treat bamboo poles with a chemical solution (boric-borax/ boron borate/borac? ). But we have some problem importing a pressure tank. At least for the beginning we would like to weld a metallic tank. What should be the dimensions (HxLxD)? How to operate for the chemical treatment (Quantity of poles at a time, solution, length of time, ...)? Note that the boiling will be done on firewood.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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>>> Paulin
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