You need to find the right solvent. Alcohol, coconut oil, vinegar, milk, glycerin, butter are all solvents. I know chinese restraunts use glycerin to thin honey in honey chicken recipes so I would try that first.
Methylene chloride or chloroform if you can get it. Hot ethanol will work too, with the added bonus that upon cooling the wax will recrystallize and you can use it
This is technically NOT wrong, although heavily dependent on the situation and the solute
In the oven at 250f for 3 minutes with a drip tray underneath. You’ll get a nearly pure block of beeswax with the debris on top/bottom.
If you use an ice cube mold or something similar it makes nice portioned cubes for use in eg soap
This. Scrap as much as you can off, then use heat to get the remnant. Using harsh solvents might be okay for the barest residue left, but heat should get 99% of it off. If they're not electronics, you'd prob even want to boil them in water(a type of solvent) after the oven before you start wiping them down with alcohol or acetone.
If you're dealing with bees for future honey or wax recovery, keep in mind the smallest crap can turn them off, so you'd really want to avoid chemicals as much as you can. Changes in the magnetic field around their hive can change their behaviour, so I'd assume left over DCM or toluene would straight up frick them over of you used something that harsh.
Thanks I do it this way but I’m not a beekeeper I just remelt blocks of wax for woodworking purposes. I didn’t know it can cause a fire, in my experience it works very well.
Starting from room temperature and with the oven preheated my beeswax gets only just past melting temp, maybe 200f at this setting after 30 minutes, just hot enough to make it all liquid and long enough to float all the impurities out.
It's soluble in warm to hot oil. Hot alcohol might do it as well, but you're gonna have to do melt it first. Water will do you no good so don't even bother.
Also this stuff is great for waterproofing almost anything, it's gentle, non toxic and since work with bees it's free.
suck on it
Heat.
let the bees eat it
If it's anything like removing cosmoline, wrap them in a black plastic bag and put them in the sun for a few hours
You need to find the right solvent. Alcohol, coconut oil, vinegar, milk, glycerin, butter are all solvents. I know chinese restraunts use glycerin to thin honey in honey chicken recipes so I would try that first.
hot water, moron
holly shit, how fricking dumb are you dude, frick
It's spelt Holy, Holly is a girls name. And considerably smarter than you.
Holly is a girls name but holly is a tree shit for brains, trying to start a pissing contest ain't the best idea..
Let me know when we start pissing. I will win
you already won the shit eating contest, congrats
Methylene chloride or chloroform if you can get it. Hot ethanol will work too, with the added bonus that upon cooling the wax will recrystallize and you can use it
This is technically NOT wrong, although heavily dependent on the situation and the solute
Also, you're going to have to heat the wax gently to dissolve it in DCM/chloroform. Xylenes might work too.
razor blade the item first and get the main wax off. then use a strong cleaner and a scrubby sponge
In the oven at 250f for 3 minutes with a drip tray underneath. You’ll get a nearly pure block of beeswax with the debris on top/bottom.
If you use an ice cube mold or something similar it makes nice portioned cubes for use in eg soap
30 minutes*
This. Scrap as much as you can off, then use heat to get the remnant. Using harsh solvents might be okay for the barest residue left, but heat should get 99% of it off. If they're not electronics, you'd prob even want to boil them in water(a type of solvent) after the oven before you start wiping them down with alcohol or acetone.
If you're dealing with bees for future honey or wax recovery, keep in mind the smallest crap can turn them off, so you'd really want to avoid chemicals as much as you can. Changes in the magnetic field around their hive can change their behaviour, so I'd assume left over DCM or toluene would straight up frick them over of you used something that harsh.
250f is stupidly high, and in fact would risk flash fire.
Beeswax has a melting point range of 62 to 64 °C (144 to 147 °F).
Thanks I do it this way but I’m not a beekeeper I just remelt blocks of wax for woodworking purposes. I didn’t know it can cause a fire, in my experience it works very well.
Starting from room temperature and with the oven preheated my beeswax gets only just past melting temp, maybe 200f at this setting after 30 minutes, just hot enough to make it all liquid and long enough to float all the impurities out.
soak it in used engine oil
soda crystals
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Magic acid desolves wax
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_acid
Ohh that's nasty stuff.
are you sure its wax and not propolis?
propolis is mostly soluble in alcohol, but not even that will get it out of your gloves
It's soluble in warm to hot oil. Hot alcohol might do it as well, but you're gonna have to do melt it first. Water will do you no good so don't even bother.
Also this stuff is great for waterproofing almost anything, it's gentle, non toxic and since work with bees it's free.