{"id":2891,"date":"2012-09-02T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:47:18","slug":"more-wax-refining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"More wax refining"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Yesterday’s run: 7 miles with boardtown runners, today: rest]<\/p>\n

This morning I worked on wax refining again.<\/p>\n

The large cake of wax we got from our first meltdown\/strain step is on the right.\u00a0 I used a big knife and cut into it.\u00a0 About half of that went into the old coffee pot along with about a cup of water.<\/p>\n

After the wax melted down I poured it through about 6 layers of cheesecloth, into the retired french-press glass beaker.\u00a0 I then used a white plastic spoon to dip out the wax, being careful to avoid any little floating fuzzy\/cloudy bits.\u00a0 I was able to fill two jelly jars!\u00a0 Pretty good.<\/p>\n

I kept warming up hot water in the pot and pouring that into the beaker, bringing the level up to where I could get at it with my spoon.<\/p>\n

I gave up with about half an inch of wax still in the beaker.\u00a0 You can see it in this picture just on top of the orange-ish water.\u00a0 It has quite a few fuzzies in it, particularly along the bottom wax\/water border.<\/p>\n

After everything cools and hardens, I’ll warm up those jelly jars a bit in a double boiler and get the wax out of them.\u00a0 Then I’ll empty the beaker.\u00a0 I may scrape some of the bottom of that remaining wax with a knife to get some of the fuzzies out.\u00a0 Then I’ll melt it down again with the rest of the big cake.<\/p>\n

I’m surprised that I was able to get this much good wax out of it.<\/p>\n

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