m.mshelomi on thu 19 jan 06
While living in MN, I bought 10# blocks of wax at a craft store and kept it
on a shelf in my studio. When I left MN and moved to FL, my wax came with
me and went on a shelf in my new studio.
What I failed to take into consideration was the heat in FL summers is
incredible. I walked into the glaze/kiln room my first summer to see a
stream of wax from a 6' shelf down to the work bench. I couldn't believe
it!
I gathered up the mass of mess, stuck it in several plastic bags and put it
in the fridge. The wax now resides in the closet in the guest room where it
has the benefit of A.C. in the hot FL summer days.
pottermim in FL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Snail Scott"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: #%*! latex
> At 06:53 AM 1/18/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>>Carole,
>> I don't know whether others use latex to keep the bottom 'clean", I
> don't. But what I have found easy and cheap and reliable is to keep
> several
> packs of Gulf wax (household..grocery stores) on hand...
>
>
> Gulf Wax is just a brand name of pure paraffin, but
> about four times more expensive than the same material
> from the candle-making section of a hobby shop. Just
> without the nice package. The large slabs from the
> hobby shop do need to be broken into manageable
> sizes for most purposes, but that's easily done with
> a hammer (or just drop it on a hard floor!), or whack
> it on the side of a sharp-edged table or doorframe.
>
> -Snail
>
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