Candle Wax

[daschnoz]

My wife was given a nice 15oz. Walmart candle. Vanilla Cookie. Yummy. We're not candle burners, so we looked at it, and looked at each other with that 'what the F are we going to do with this' look on our faces.

I did give the surface a swipe with my finger. It is slightly oily and slick (fragrance oils?).

What are the odds that this is a beeswax candle? Would it be a good base for boolit lube?

She would simply throw it away. I would hate to see it go to waste, then buy wax to make lube with.

[runfiverun]

it's not beeswax it's soy wax.
i have made lube with it before.
it makes a pretty soft lube on it's own so i have taken to mixing it into my b-wax at up to 40% ratios.
be careful with the scented stuff i once made what was termed a** crack sweat lube it worked great but hooboy.
vanilla is pretty good as is angle food cake and a couple of others i stay away from the mellon ones.

[220swiftfn]

If you're not sure what it is, and don't want to run the risk of making the "perfect" lube without being able to do it again, just use it as flux........


Dan

[WHITETAIL]

+1 on useing it as flux.
My daughter gives me her used
candles in a jar.:Fire:
And I melt them out and put them in my ingot moulds.
Then they get put in a canister set to be used later whem I smelt.

[Reload3006]

makes a sweet fragrance as your fluxing your pot. I for one like to know what is going on in my lube.

[mdi]

I've found soy wax just so-so as a lube base. I think I tried it in a Darr's type lube, but notes are out in the shed. I would think if it were real bees wax, the mfg. would brag about it on a lable on the bottom...

[Sonnypie]

Just don't "swoosh" at the range....
Otherwise everybody will soon know who is shooting Tootie-Fruity boolits. :oops:
:lol:

(I have the remnants of one of those big tootie-fruity candles in my crock pot loob. :veryconfu )

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