Pics of the Brower wooden incubator! DUW

[Junkmanme]

I'm certainly NOT SURE of this, but PERHAPs a VERY dilute mixture of water and bleach MAY remove the green stain. I would try to do it VERY MINIMALLY and perhaps in light steps to see how it goes.

just a thought......DON"T over-do it.

(But you should wash and rinse after each light application, I think.)

-Junkmanme-

 

[HappyHatch'en]

I sprayed pure bleach on my Model 1200 at the car wash, inside and out....then I paid about $6.00 worth of quarters and rinsed it off. Redwood naturally will turn gray with age and I had dirt dobbers, mice nest, and waste from years of neglect. I figured I needed to sterilize it as well...I was happy with the results. I was told by Brad Legg, owner of Legg Peafowl that this is how he cleans his once a year.

 

[walkswithdog]

I'm going to vaccuum, strip, sand and refinish all of it. There really won't be a lot of bugs left after that except behind the plenum and bleaching that area and the trays makes sense.

Cupric solutions are not reactive to bleach unfortunately, it's an oxidizer - oxidizers just turn copper green/er. And at this point it's in the wood. I'm sanding most of it out, the stripper took out and off, much of it.

I just used a wood hardener on the small areas with some humidity/water damage. That looks better. One of the back corners is lifted a little and not set - the nail and the wood around it corroded. I'm trying to gently work the nail out to be able to glue it back down and replace the nail with a screw.

 

[HappyHatch'en]

I understand about the nail thing....if they would have used galvanized nails and some water proof glue, you would had to do much to it. Keep at it and you will have a diamond!!!!