Thread: rice cooker? waxing timber

Originally Posted by

And we know this how?

Patient went troppo, wife got let off early then went troppo

Sprung!!

A cautionary true kitchen story:

"Where's that beeswax I had in here?"
"I don't know, but I just made some pumpkin soup with that chicken stock you had on the stove."

Just to be contrary, but also to recognise that there's lots of variables here, the one batch I did with a mix of paraffin and beeswax performed the worst cp other treatments.

The variables:

The wood species of course and how moist your batch is.
How dry the air is.
How hot it gets in the storage stack.
How thick and how evenly thick the blank or rough-turned bowl is.

I scored a big lekky frypan (new and non-stick!) cheap at the local permanent market. I let it heat til it's almost smoking (you can recognise it but can't describe it) and then go frying. Looking for fizzing.

A big lump of wood pulls down the temp in the pan so give it time to come up again.

Once you master this you're ready to graduate to potato chips ;-)

Originally Posted by dai sensei

I use a large Wok, it is bigger than a frying pan, plus being curved can fit larger bowl blanks

Time to repurpose my wok

I'd been using it to soak and clean engine parts (no heat lol, will have to find the cord to melt the wax)


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

Originally Posted by springwater

Patient went troppo, wife got let off early then went troppo

I am lost for words on this one. Even I know not to do something like this.


One of the main reason is we only have one saucepan.

Originally Posted by TTIT

OK, I'll be the wet blanket this time (again?!??!). Candle wax is useless for the purpose! It has a sterate added to it that stiffens the parrafin wax so your candles don't droop like . . OK we won't go there . Even straight parrafin wax will peel off as the timber shrinks so you're exposing the timber to the elements again in no time. Best solution is to add something softer to it like Beeswax so the wax stays flexible and moves with the timber.
I use a about 20 or 30 parts Parrafin wax to 1 part Beeswax and it works very well for me - lost a hell of a lot of timber to cracking with the straight parrafin before I woke up . Only takes a couple of minutes in a big square electric pan before you can start dipping what ever you like in it

I wonder if adding mineral oil (from drug store - chemist) would mix in and soften the paraffin to suit. I have seen some blanks in turning stores that had an almost gummy wax coating.

I was in Spotlight at Auburn NSW today and they had a special on candles $1.50 for a 260gm candle.At under $6/kg thats pretty cheap and you have a choice of four perfumes.
Ted

I sealed some camphor bowl blanks the other day with a mixture of beeswax and candle wax with some coconut oil mixed in and it has been almost a week without any cracking compared to my other blanks that I sealed with just beeswax + candlewax that have got a few cracks, so oil must help in the sealing although a non perishable oil would probably be better.

Originally Posted by Christos

I am lost for words on this one. Even I know not to do something like this.


One of the main reason is we only have one saucepan.

It's all about the trust and belief system. I said I know things look a bit out of the norm to you at the moment, don't panic, trust me, things WILL return to normal and it did with the help of 4538 steelo soap pads, some elbow grease (and a little additive), no probs, life goes on...with a good old mums 70's model fry pan