Kelempayan (Nauclea maingayi)
Family: Rubiaceae
Common names: Kelempayan, Mengkal
Distributed in: Australia, Papua New Guinea (Oceania and S.E. Asia)
Common uses: Boat building: framing, Boxes and crates, Food containers, Furniture, Joinery, Light construction, Particleboard, Plywood, Pulp/Paper products, Vats, Veneer: decorative
Tree size: Trunk diameter is 150-200 cm
Colors: the heart isPurple, Redand the sapwoodWhite, Yellow.The grain isInterlocked, the textureFine to mediumand the lusterMedium
Natural durability: Susceptible to attack from termites (Isoptera), Susceptible to insect attack
Drying Defects: Slight surface checking, Splitting
Ease of Drying: Moderately Difficult to Difficult
Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is not buttressed
Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as good
Blunting Effect: Moderate
Cutting Resistance: Easy to saw
Gluing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy
Nailing: Difficult to nail, Fair to Good
Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood
Resistance to Splitting: Poor
Response to hand tools: Fairly Difficult to Difficult to Work
Steam bending: Fair to Good Results
Screwing: Fair to Good Results
; Turning: Very Good to Excellent Results
Painting: Very Good to Excellent; Polishing: Fair to Good; Staining: Very Good to Excellent;
- Numerical data Metric
- Numerical data English
- Strength properties
- References
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1000 kg/cm2 |
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Radial Shrinkage |
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Shrinkage, Tangential = very small Shrinkage, Radial = very small Shrinkage, Tangential = small
Desch, H.E.,1954,Manual of Malayan Timbers (2 vols,Malayan Forest Records,no.15Keating, W.G., Bolza, E.,1982,Characteristics properties and uses of timbers. South East Asia, Northern,Australia and the Pacific,C.S.I.R.O. Div. Chemical Technology,Inkata Press,1
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