water sealant

BTW bumping your own post 21 minutes after the fact is not a welcome practice, and in most cases will only server to get your post ignored (out of spite and becuase people see the post count and think you have been answered).

Bean
 
It was friendly advice (as was the answer to your question). Before you get your feathers ruffled you may want to spend some time reading the forums and seeing how folks here operate. It's a great place with a HUGE body of people full of knowledge. On second thought I should have sent a PM instead of posting to the thread...

In any case:

Like I said, it's (self bumping) frowned upon by most forum members (here and at any forum). I think you will find that this advice is some of the most basic "forum etiquette" you could observe.

Look at it this way:
If nobody responed, that means that those who saw the post did not know the answer, did not want to answer, or had not seen the post yet.

The good part:
You may want to know that most folks here subscribe to the forums that they are interested in. When they log in, they go back through all of the new/unread posts in those forums and respond to the posts they are interested in, no matter what page they are on. Bumping your own post to keep it on page one after 20 mins only servers to:

1) indicate your impatience (and/or lack of common forum etiquette)
2) make it appear that somebody has already attended to your post. Like I said when a post has 0 replies, more poeple are apt to look at it and reply to help out. Once the thread has replies, many uninterested, but otherwise helpful people will simply pass it by THINKING ANOTHER HAS ALREADY HELPED.
3) push other posts (from other patient people) further down due to YOUR impatience.

My post was only inteneded to help you out. Welcome to RC and enjoy yourself.
 
BTW:

If you tell us what type of wood you are trying to seal (stained or not) I am sure somebody here can recomend a brand name product to help you. Water based polys tend to give a bluish or neutral tint to the wood and oil based give an amber tint. The oil based products will amber over time. The lights and heat inside the canopy will tent to speed this process up.

The deck "sealants" usually have a very low grade poly in them, and very little of it.
 
first off, i have been reading on these forums for about a year and a half before i joined. ive been keepin reefs for a while so i believe i know how a few things work. the self bump was because the post was low, and near the second page, so i wanted it up higher, i dont see the big deal about it. if somebody has a problem with a self bump, and wont answer a question because of it they have some serious problems. its a self friggin bump, who gives a damn. the fact that anybody makes such a big deal about scares me. i dont need a post on bumping etiquette. if i want to bump a thread, and i think the time merits ill bump it.... end of story.


back to the question, i found my answer. I need to get a marine grade polyurethane or a spar varnish.
 
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