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22-10-2004, 02:13 PM

(Anil Kaushik) wrote in message news:BAY19-
Instead if systemic anti fungal paste is applied and
after drying, is brushed off with a nylon bursh, it looks better and
protects the wood from fungi.

I just noticed this statement. I wanted to point out that systemic
fungicide isn't going to work well to protect dead wood because it's
*dead*, and systemic fungicides are designed to protect living tissue
(especially metabolically active tissue). Dead wood is protected by
"protectant fungicides", where the type of tissue being protected
isn't important. A prime example of such a protectant is: lime
sulfur!!! But as so many people have pointed out, Minwax is better
for many reasons.

Nina