Homemade wax

Sweet Bryan, great to hear and thanks again for another update.

 

Have you gotten a chance to try it out???

 

I did the fender of my truck, felt like glass, beaded nicely as well

 

This week I will be changing the solvent used, although trupentine did the trick, the pine smell is a little unusaual for a wax. I have also ordered a scale to correectly measure wax content and hopefully more raw materials on the way so I cam continue to fiddle away at this. The biggest lesson so far is to create a useable wax alot of oils and solvents have to go in to make it workable.

 

no scale this week, maybe next week:waiting2:

 

Cool project to take on!

Subscribed!

 

Thanks, thought it would be cool to do,

 

still waiting on the scale, more raw materials coming in today, Carlos, give the scale guys hell for me, their in Calgary somewhere.:

 

hey i just saw this thread. do you have room for one more tester?

 

I will send out some 2oz samples when I am satisfied with a mix, lots of raw materials came in yesterday, more than expected, and my scale is finally in, I will pick it up tonight. Should be experimenting next week. PM me your details, you may get lucky.

 

I'm from the A forum, would like to try a 2oz sample, do u have anybody from Brooklyn, NY:mounty: Thank CB

 

Well I did a few more trials yesterday at B's house of wax magic. I fiddled with two solvents and changed the amounts of oils and solvents on a few of them. now that the scale is in it is much easier to chart progress and see how the makeup changes by varying the inputs. So on to experiment 1 for the day, we will call it batch two. I switched to Turpenoid from turpentine to see what would happen. Well the mixture turned milky instantly, not sure if its a bad thing but something different than the others. the mixture looks ok, has viens of white in it and is a little granular in texture. I will post pics once Carlos lets me, something about pic quota exceeded?

 

Next up was the sam solvent but at an increased volume, and less oil. It wasn't bad, softer and more granular than the first, they melt up contact with the skin. Pics to follow. I stayed with the wax amount of the first as it gave me the desired amount of material, 4oz. Its starting to shape up but I think the Turpenoid is not a solvent of choice.

 

Third up for the day was the same inputs as Batch 3, but Mineral Spirits as a solvent. I thought it was a dud as the top layer was hard, but underneath was the gold. I believe that using minerals spirits caused the wax to flash off a little and made the top hard as I left it to cool with the top off. Texture is granular like sand and very uniform. Interesting, Batch1,3,4 will be tested tomorrow and pics to follow.

 

cool man....seems to be coming along good...

i just made a new batch about 5 minutes ago

 

Thanks again for the updates Bryan.

 

Ok, so it pissed rain all day today, not trials on the wax yet. However yesterday, I found Batch 2 and 3 with turpenoid didn't mix and seperated under the top layer it was chucked. Made two more batches today. Batch 6 and seven, where I increased the oil content of the mixture, increasing one oil at a time. They came out pretty good and Batch 6 will go to test tomorrow.I am definitely getting a feel for how to create the consistency of the wax I want. I found out that too much of a certain oil gives too oily a mixture. Increasing another oil leaves the wax feeling less greasy and workable. We are on the right track, tomorrow I will take the makeup of 6 and change the slovent to see what I get. Already pitched one solvent as useless, turpenoid will only clean brushes from now on.

 

Based on a suggestion I started a blog of the process
Homemade Wax

 

I'm glad at your success Bryan and that you're sticking with it! Now.... where's my sample?!? LOL

 

Well actually Michael, I believe I am close to send out a couple of samples, but I have to put them on the truck to see what I have, Batch 6 looks the best so far, but I will see how it performs tomorrow.