I hesitate to respond, for a few reasons:
1) You are new here and I don't want to you feel unwelcome.
2) I'm not a wood or epoxy expert by any stretch of the imagination.
3) I hate to sound all negative/doubting-Thomas.
4) I'm all for "outside the box" thinking, and yet...
If there's one thing this forum stands for, it's providing good information. Information that current and future plastic-classic owners can use to plan and carry out their projects. So if I'm reading something that I feel may be questionable for that purpose, I want to respond.
Tallystick wrote:I've used this technique mostly with restoring highly weathered wood pieces that could benefit from internal strengthening.
I just can't feel comfortable with the idea that super-thinned epoxy can be used to internally strengthen wood that is in need of it. As I said above, I am not qualified to provide specifics, and I may be wrong, but I felt that I needed to at least bring it up.
Tallystick wrote:Slow cure epoxy not 5min.
Probably never hurts to be specific, but I think most members here are using a typical boat-working epoxy (WEST, System 3, and others), with either a fast or slow hardener, but not a "hardware store" 5-minute epoxy (although I have thrown a couple of "smoke bombs" off the boat in hot weather that
seemed like 5-minute epoxy ;/).
Rachel