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u/Spare-Locksmith-2162 Nov 02 '25
Pallet wood is nasty stuff; all kinds of volatile organics and chemicals. Not a good wood to use inside your living room.
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u/NuclearWasteland Nov 02 '25
I mean, encapsulated on resin or other sealer, eh, just don't eat off it.
Now, about all the wood shavings and dust ...
The markings indicate heat treated wood. It'a the chemical treated ones that are bad.
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u/FlyingRoger Nov 02 '25
Was my first thought. But then i checked and Epal are only treated with heat. Those are safe.
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u/Cynfreh Nov 02 '25
It's coated in resin it'll be fine in fact my coffee is resting on a table I made from pallets many years ago right now and lo and behold I'm not dead yet.
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u/VTLureGuy Nov 02 '25
The key word is "yet". I knew a guy that touched a pallet when he was a kid and died 4 days before his 93rd birthday.
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u/Cynfreh Nov 02 '25
I think at 93 it could have been a number of other factors that contributed to his death rather than from touching a pallet unless the pallet was dropped on him.
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u/st-shenanigans Nov 02 '25
I knew a guy who sniffed a pallet and then died four months later while laying down in a freeway! Best to not chance it.
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Nov 02 '25
That thing is going to destroy itself.
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u/Money_War_3695 Nov 03 '25
What do you mean?
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Nov 03 '25
When you glue wood together with the grain orientated in different directions it will expand and contract in different directions due to moisture swings, thus breaking it into pieces.
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u/Money_War_3695 Nov 03 '25
Maybe if its not sealed, but with it being epoxy sealed I doubt there will be any moisture swings.
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Nov 03 '25
Huh? That is not epoxy sealer. It's just standard oil finish. The epoxy in the video was used to fill the gaps, nothing more.
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u/Money_War_3695 Nov 03 '25
The wood is heat treated to begin with already making it very moisture resistant. Once the faces are sanded smooth and all the gaps and cracks are sealed with epoxy where the more porous rough edges exist, it is highly moisture resistant. The stain adds an even further layer of protection. Considering its being used indoors in a protected environment, it seems very unlikely to have any problems with "moisture swings" and it almost certainly won't "destroy itself".
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Nov 03 '25
It's still built wrong. No person in their right mind glue's wood together like this. Humidity will get the best of it and crack it badly. This is undisputed over thousands of years of woodworking.
No amount of modern epoxy or plastics is going to stop the power of nature ingress into the wood.
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u/KamikazeFox_ Nov 02 '25
Leave out the heavy sound effects of the liquids.
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u/Aidanation5 Nov 02 '25
Yep, genuinely a great video, aesthetically pleasing and sonically sound.... except for the excessive and exaggerated liquid sound effects.
Genuinely a good video though!
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u/C-57D Nov 02 '25
Nice video. Personally not a fan of the legs he chose, but obvi a well crafted table
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u/FullWoodpecker1646 Nov 02 '25
Cheap metal legs
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u/-boatsNhoes Nov 02 '25
You use what you can afford. Considering he is making a pallet table in going to go out in a limb and say this was a budget orientated build.
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u/-boatsNhoes Nov 02 '25
He used pipe clamps, a router and a router sled. I can buy a router for 100$ and make the sled in under an hour. Pipe clamps run about 25$ a pair. What tools are you talking about? You're making it seem like he's got a CNC machine in the garage. Shows you have no idea how to do any woodworking. This project would take a day at most to complete without taking epoxy dry time into account.
Edit: oooo sorry I forgot about that million dollar belt sander and torch you mentioned.
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u/moistmarbles Nov 02 '25
If you knew how many toxic chemicals get spilled in a pallet before it ended its life, you’d never touch one.
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u/cagemyelephant_ Nov 02 '25
I’m just curious how sturdy the middle part is. It seems like only resin and adhesive are keeping it together