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Not having removed my lamps to see what I'm dealing with....I'm thinking this through a bit.
My thinking is this.....
An epoxy adhesive can be fairly brittle.
Also, it will not have the same coefficient of thermal expansion as the wood
and will cure before it can really penetrate the wood deeply.
So I'm wondering if long term the epoxy could fail in places and then the water would get behind it. Seems that once the water is behind it there would be little chance for it to ever dry.
So I wonder if there aren't other treatments that might serve better than fast cure epoxy.....
I'm thinking of
linseed oil
tung oil
Thompson's water seal (or similar)
never wet
copper green preservative
or maybe these products such as Rustoleum's Restore deck finish
They might likely require periodic re-treatments
and for the oil based sealants this would be much easier....
but maintaining a decent seal around the fixture
and maintaining a weep hole
might serve to keep things in order????
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