Can woodworm treatment rust nails in furniture?

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I’ve got a 1930s wood fire surround containing a dozen or so nails which fix multiple sections together. I have just stripped back in preparation for a new finish. I’ve discovered another piece of furniture in the same room had woodworm, so I’d like to treat the fire surround with sika sikagard woodworm treatment as a preventative measure. The treatment I bought from screwfix says it is water based. Am I likely to get rust spots showing through if I apply this to the fire surround before coating with oil and laquer? What have others used? Thanks!
 
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you dont need to overthink this 'treatment will make the wood damp for say a day or so so rust in this amount off time will be zero as rust [decay] takes many many months off abuse and damp
if your nails rust its not a treatment causing the problem its the damp problem you have to solve
 
Thanks. Ordinarily I would have just applied the treatment without a second thought but having watched some videos on applying laquer to wood, some people mention avoid using wire wool when you’re intending on using a water based laquer as it can cause rust spots, and that got me thinking about nails and the affect from water based woodworm treatment.
 

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