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Sounds “out there” to me. Tim-bor is an insecticide. And what do you think glycol will do to the color? It’s green.

Strange cocktail. I’m not sure that I’d want to work with antifreeze as a finish; it can cause kidney failure even at small amounts absorbed through the skin.

Thanks guys. I’m going to stick to a simple water sealer, and call it good. Maybe the reason the guy seemed so out there was from using this recipe! Thanks for the help!

I have a ‘lidded’ rubber trashcan that I keep small blocks of wood in. I have used Tim-bor (mixed w/H2O & sprayed) with success in removing beetles. After ~2yr I had just one beetle try to pop out of the wood. The rest is beetle free and now removed from the can. I now have two ~18in. diameter X ~12in. trunk pieces of Red Oak going through the process. The oak had been cut ~2yr ago and stored outside. I figure a full year should be good enough.

Who knows… powder-post beetles can be tough critters. Don’t know anything about the antifreeze thing…