11-06-2011, 10:35 PM
Woodturners sometimes use a microwave oven to reduce the moisture content of timber. (Not the one in the kitchen, which could at best cause a 'domestic' and at worst, be grounds for divorce! but a cheap old one - even cheap new ones cost as little as £35.00 or so). Timber can be likened to a bunch of straws, and even if apparently dry, will have some moisture content, so the power level and duration of the microwave oven have to be carefully considered. Rather than prattle on about the technique, there's an interesting article at the link below which has some relevance, albeit I appreciate that this thread isn't about drying timber, but killing larvae, if indeed they're actually in residence, which is doubtful. The point I'm making - though perhaps not very clearly - is that if you put a wooden radio cabinet in a microwave oven, the law of unintended consequences might come into play due to the moisture content of the timber, in that microwaves are designed to heat up anything that has moisture content. That includes timber as well as bugs!
Having turned on the microwave, it might be a wise precaution to hide behind the sofa till it switches off!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/3jdw8/microwavedrying.htm
Boil in the bag bugs?
That should be fun!
Night night - time for me to 'climb the wooden hill off up to Bedfordshire'.
David
Having turned on the microwave, it might be a wise precaution to hide behind the sofa till it switches off!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/3jdw8/microwavedrying.htm
Boil in the bag bugs?
That should be fun!
Night night - time for me to 'climb the wooden hill off up to Bedfordshire'.
David
