stabilising flaky chipboard

[sundancewfs]

My mother-in-law has a kitchen table that is laminated chipboard. Its quite old, but very serviceable the chipboard underneath is flaking and putting a lot of dust on the floor. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what product I could use to stabilise the chipboard and seal it? I would prefer a product I could pick up at a local hardware like bunnings or such.
Thanks

[flynnsart]

My friend had a table on the verandah which was doing that, and getting worse, so we mixed some cheap pva glue up one in four with water, and gave it a few sloppy coats of it. Worked fine.

Donna

[sundancewfs]

Now there a simple idea, Thanks Donna
Any other ideas?

[pawnhead]

Paint it with any old left over paint that you've got.

[astrid]

go for the PVA, it will soak in better than paint.
If I have to restore somthing really borerish I literaly soatk it in a 1/4 PVA and water mix it really toughens it up.
astrid

[woodhunt]

bondcrete or welbond with plenty of solvent instead of water, it dries faster and tougher and you need as much penetration/drying with badly behaved chipboard as you can get.

I just bought a vintage saw table mounted on a sheet of it on a frame from auction- left it in the backyard for a light sunshower and the damn stuff looked like it was made from vitabrits afterwards. Saw dropped through but miraculously survived!

[astrid]

Thats interesting,
what sort of solvent?
astrid

[ubeaut]

Good ol fashioned shellac works well also. Have used it a few times on flakey chipboard. Binds all the plakey bits and makes everything go nice n hard.

[Woodlee]

My mother-in-law has a kitchen table that is laminated chipboard. Its quite old, but very serviceable the chipboard underneath is flaking and putting a lot of dust on the floor. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what product I could use to stabilise the chipboard and seal it? I would prefer a product I could pick up at a local hardware like bunnings or such.
Thanks

My Sons' desk had the same problem ,I used Cabots marine varnish .
I just happened to have some left over from another job.

Kev.