Today, while cleaning, I found about a 5 pound block of beeswax I had forgotten about. I purchased a number of them probably 30 years ago from a local Apiary supply when my wife was teaching elementary and we used it for her kids to make dipped candles at Christmas time.
This block is really "dried out" - i.e. not soft like it was when new and what I've purchased in the last few years for making ny BP lube. I'm assuming that natural beeswax has moisture of some kind in it when new that makes it softer like new beeswax is. Is there a way to save this old hard block of beeswax? Re-melt it? Add something to soften it (an oil of some sort?) and "freshen" it up again so I could pour smaller cakes of it to make lube?
Today, I was melting a bunch of old boolits down and pouring muffin ingots - decided to use a small piece of the beeswax to flux with. I used a wide wood chisel and a mallet to cut a piece off and it was so dried out that there was no cutting - it was more like chipping a piece off of a rock.
Thanks for any info - appreciate it!