Looking for Beeswax

[Dusty Bannister]

Guys, if you use a t-shirt or cheesecloth to filter beeswax don't discard it unless you never light a real fire. Cut in chunks that's a great firestarter!

Certainly does make a good fire starter, but make sure it dries out well since it will still have some moisture from prior processing. Not a bad idea to sprinkle a little saw dust on the warm wax as it cools and before cutting. Thank you Wayne, good to point that out.

[justindad]

Mix the bees wax & saw dust with beef tallow or bacon grease for a real fire starter! I actually have a block of that for flux at my casting bench.

[jdgabbard]

Forum member Randy Rat sold refined beeswax on the site ... At one time but I don't know if he is still in the bee business ... mioght have "retired" .

Back when I was still Lubing, I had bought a lot from Randy Rat. I contacted him several years ago (probaly 5-6) and he was no longer selling it. You can try him, but I doubt he is still doing it.

If you buy a 10 lb bag of flake beeswax on Amazon, you pay $3.5/lb. A 3lb bag goes for about $4.6. No sense in paying $5/lb from a beekeeper, just to have to go and render it into clean wax.

Honestly, Amazon is going to be about as cheap as anywhere. At least in my experience. Seems like most beekeepers are selling for more than I can buy it on Amazon for. Although I don't use it anymore, it still seems cheaper and more reliable to me to just buy it there.

[nicholst55]

I had trouble finding bees wax to use and a person I know suggested using a toilet bowl wax ring? Works for me .......???????

Toilet bowl rings all used to (key words) contain beeswax; these days, they may well not contain any. Read the label before you buy it assuming that it's beeswax.

[elmacgyver0]

Toilet bowl rings all used to (key words) contain beeswax; these days, they may well not contain any. Read the label before you buy it assuming that it's beeswax.

And...don't use used ones.

[Charlie Horse]

Maybe find somebody selling local honey and work back from there.

[Dusty Bannister]

Price it out and offer it in the S&S. There is usually a market for clean bees wax.

[2TM101]

Toilet bowl rings all used to (key words) contain beeswax; these days, they may well not contain any. Read the label before you buy it assuming that it's beeswax.

Today they are "Slack Wax" which is mostly petroleum. Cheaper and actually better for their intended purpose. And perfectly OK provided your powder does not contain Sulfur. If it does, the bore of your gun will slowly get coated in Tar. A muzzle loader will be impossible to load after about a dozen shots (happened to me) and the slowly decreasing bore size can result in a cartridge gun getting into dangerously high pressures. You will know thats happening because the accuracy is just gone.