Thanks to Ben and others who shared how they make it, I decided to try it today. This is the basic mix:
50% beeswax
30% Red, Tacky Lucas High Temp Grease
10% Johnson's Paste Wax
5% Dexron II or Dexron III Trans. Fluid
5% STP Oil Treatment
But a forum member was nice enough to describe that in other units, and using a complete Red Tacky Lucas Grease:
24 ozs. = 3 cups - melted beeswax
14 ozs. = 1 3/4 cups - Red N Tacky , heat it..it doesn't really melt
4.6 ozs. = 2/3 cup - Johnsons Paste Wax - melted
2.3 ozs. = 1/3 cup - Dexron II or III ATF
2.3 ozs. = 1/3 cup- STP Oil Treatment
Note, 1/3 cup = 5 Tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
So I got several low cost supplies from Wally World, and from my local auto parts store:
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I do my own electronics, so I have two hot ways to do surface mount reflow, so I tried one:
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For the Red grease, I open the end, and squeezed it out like toothpaste (tip from a forum member here):
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Then used spatula to get the other end (as much as possible):
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I am waiting for beeswax from randyrat, but before I knew of him I had ordered a small amount through Amazon, which happen to come in little pellets. Here I got about 20 oz - I will add the rest later, as I was not 100% everything would fit in my container (it did):
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The wax:
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After I had the grease there for a while (while stirring it), I added the beeswax:
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But I was never able to get enough heat, quickly enough:
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So I tried my "better" hotplate:
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