A very heavy pine beam is loaded with pine sap, how to remove for gluing?

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  1. sdowney717
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    I need to cut this thinner from 2" to 1.125" to fit into the skeg where I removed some old eaten white oak .
    Then the sappy pine 3" thick will attach to the skeg bottom. Six 1/2" bolts pull it all together, inner keel and skeg wood.
    And for the very skeg bottom will be the worm shoes, another 2" thick
    Simply screw on with 316 SS deck screws.
    Plan to use a Pl Premium glue barrier between skeg and wormshoe, not glue on the shoe.

    And would painting copper bottom paint on top of the skeg and on the shoe before screwing on the shoe also help?
     
  2. sdowney717
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    Pics of it in place and bearing the heavy center load of the hull. It is working great. I have some small pine blocks under it, and they are crushed but the fat wood beam is not

    This is the very center of the hull, and the twin engines are sitting above this area.

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  3. fallguy
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    fallguy Boat Builder

    I know of two people who died from creosote poisoning. The girl’s father put the creosote company out of business and the mother bought very fancy toys for the grandkids.

    That said, the best remedy is poisoning the worms as they invade. This would require a penetrant as the first worms would expose the raw wood and the second would be free to chew. For this reason, a venom loaded laminated timber seems best to this idiot.
     
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