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Thought I would share a "priming" technique I used for MDF. I mixed wood glue and water, at least 50/50, and applied it like a stain. Building the HiVi 3.1, was trying to keep the budget in line with the kit value. Sure I could have bought Shellac, one of the best, but it's expensive, probably would have lots of leftovers.

It applies very easy just like a stain, no cleanup, no VOCs, and dries in about 15 minutes. It did not raise the MDF whatsoever. I applied a few light coats to get to where it seemed good.

Soaks in, becomes one with the MDF, leaving a 'plastic' like finish. The grill cover's especially, loved it, with the open grain. Still easy to finish sand.

Tried some automotive enamel paint, almost one coat coverage. Ultimately finished with vinyl wallpaper, stuck wonderfully as it was sticking to 'plastic', not sawdust.

I could see this not being good for something like iron on veneer, or contact cement, where it might be beneficial to have the glue direct contact the MDF and soak into it.

Do a test piece. Maybe it helps someone...on the cheap and easy, as most will have wood glue anyway.

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In continuation of this post, Temperature an "Intensive" parameter, cannot be averaged, I'll illustrate what Climate Scientists get wrong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climateskeptics/s/99wI25727w

We all intrinsically understand that winds blowing off the Pacific in California are moderated by the ocean, where desert temperatures can see daily fluctuations of 100F (40C) or more. Why? Obvious to everyone: the ocean and deserts have very different heat capacities (water).

A thermometer over a desert and one over the Pacific Ocean are both measuring air temperature, but the amount of 'energy' behind those temperature measurements is very, very different.

This is where Climate Science goes off the rails. When averaging global temperatures, they do not weigh ocean air temperatures differently than land temperatures. They are treated as equals... incredibly.

>**Major datasets used by IPCC (Berkeley Earth, HadCRUT5, etc.) calculate GMST as the area-weighted average of gridded anomalies. No heat-content adjustment is applied.**

As an example, if the Pacific Ocean air temperature cooled (-)0.1C, but land increased 1.0C, they would average this as a 0.9C temperature increase. This is very wrong. The 0.1C Pacific air decrease represents a massive amount more "energy" change.

This post is not intended to argue for warming or cooling, but to illustrate why temperature cannot be averaged, only energy. The 1.5C 'threshold' is a meaningless number, junk.

As oceans make up ~90% of the global thermal mass, the "real" temperature change might only be 0.15C difference if calculated correctly. Instead, anomalies like the Urban Heat Island Effect are weighted the same as the oceans, can you imagine.

So the key point is: averaging land and ocean air temperatures is very wrong. Even different land types have different heat content (and cities with concrete and asphalt)...

....yet this is what they do. Everyone knows it's intuitively wrong, you don't need to be a Climate Scientist to understand it, apparently they don't either.

What we are seeing is the RAW d18O proxy data from GISP2 (Greenland) for the last 10,000 years charted in Excel by me. We've all seen this data before, just not the RAW data. Always "smoothed". Like this reference...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Greenland\_Gisp2\_Temperature.svg

The time between data points is not identical, in the 6 to 15 years range, wider further back in time.

I have purposely not converted d18O to temperature. But the 'slope' of the conversation is within an accepted range of approximately 1.5–2.2°C per 1‰ d18O (I used the lowest number I could research on the graphs to avoid whataboutism's).

There are four (4) graph photos, all with same data, just with different moving averages applied. Can see as further smoothing is applied, variability gets less and less. It "hides" it.

Alarmist oftentimes claim, the "temperature never changed as quickly". Or... "it's the rate of change".

But comparing lower resolution "smoothed" palio records, with modern RTDs feeding data by the minute, is a disingenuous comparison. If we smoothed our current ~100 years, with a 200 year moving average, climate change would disappear from the modern record too, wouldn't it.

There is nothing to indicate the rate of change today is anything abnormal, from the past palio records. If people were allowed to see the RAW data normally, it would dispelled the pretend precision.

Who decides how much to "smooth" data? You too can download the data and play with changing Earth's climate history using simple Excel tools with a click of a keyboard.... amazing.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/greenland/summit/gisp2/isotopes/gispd18o-noaa.txt

The Climate Science Fail....Temperature cannot be averaged, only energy balance. One cannot average the temperature of a room, and a baseball stadium, they have different energy balances (masses).

Temperature is an intensive property, meaning it does NOT depend on how much material you have. Unlike mass or energy (which are extensive and can be added directly), temperature represents the average microscopic kinetic energy of particles in a system, not a total quantity you can sum.

Because of this, you generally cannot treat temperature like a simple arithmetic quantity. For example, mixing equal amounts of 80°C and 20°C water might give 50°C, but that only works in that special case. If the amounts or heat capacities differ, the final temperature shifts toward the larger or more “thermally massive” system.

The correct way to determine final temperature is through energy conservation, not averaging temperatures. You balance the heat lost and gained (using mass and heat capacity), and the resulting equilibrium temperature emerges from that calculation. So temperature itself is not something you add or average directly—it’s the outcome of an energy balance.

This in follow-up to LackmustesTester's post...a very important principal not to be overlooked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climateskeptics/s/bbdf8AuoFB