I'm helping out on a project at a research farm in Florida where we are upgrading a system to pressure treat bamboo. The old system used a 20 foot vertical pipe to create the pressure whereas the upgraded system will use a solar powered small pump to create the pressure to force the boric acid mixture/solution through a pvc manifold that will handle 6 pieces of bamboo at once instead of only 1 piece in the old system.
The bamboo pieces are in 20 foot lengths and range in diameter of 2 inches to 5 inches and one end of each bamboo piece connects to the manifold by means of a rubber cap. We currently have a supply of various rubber caps in the sizes required, but some of them are now hardened from longtime storage.
I like the boiling idea as it is simple, but as mentioned earlier, it may only be a temporary solution.
I might mention that our demo/prototype experiment used a backpack sprayer to force the liquid through the bamboo and it only took about 90 minutes to get the fluid comiing out the other end. By pressure treating the bamboo, it lengthens it's usefulness from 2 years to approx 12 years as an outside building material.
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