Beeswax

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While I'm on here it seems some folks are having trouble finding beeswax. I went by our local "hippy-type" organic co-op this morning and found some. It came 2 cones maybe 21/2 by 2 in. each in a bag for $2.59. I bought a bag of it and will try the lube pills on this site sometime this week. So if you can't find it maybe the co-op type store will have some. John
 
Some of the citronella candles are made with beeswax. Keeps the skeeters off of ya while ya shoot too.:D
 
Oh Well

Guys,

I still like used toilet donuts. They are real cheap. In fact most plumbers just throw them away. Can you imagine?!

Seriously,I tried beeswax and the mixture got too hard. I probably used too much of the wax.
 
While I'm on here it seems some folks are having trouble finding beeswax. I went by our local "hippy-type" organic co-op this morning and found some.
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Yeah, that's where I get my organic cream of wheat filler:D
 
I get beeswax in bulk online. Cheap. I think I got 10 pounds last time. I'm not so sure that toilet seals are beeswax, but I've heard they work well. I think they have mineral oil and probably paraffin wax now. Both have been used for BP lubes as well. I swear by real, filtered, beeswax and real, regular, crisco. 50/50. Every now and then I'll use some mutton tallow (goat tallow actually) instead of crisco for old timer sake ;)
 
Beeswax shortage? Now, don't tell me there has been a run on beeswax by BP shooters like regular reloading supplies!? I still got a big old chunk the size of a loaf of Velveeta stashed back here in case the supplies dry up. Maybe it is those mites killing off all the bees or something? New investment commodity apparently. I am gonna stock up and if you want to know where it is or how much I got, I will just tell you to mind your own beeswax!
 
Toilet seals are not beeswax, most are microcrystalline wax left over from the hydrocarbon oil refining process; others are a mixture of microcrystalline and paraffin and beware that some contain solid fillers that can be very abrasive.

All beeswax is not created equal either, depending on where the bees are located, the properties of the wax they produce will vary accordingly.
 
Some rings are some ain't beeswax or close enough ya gotta read the label...ya get the yeller ones they work just fine.
To say none of the rings are bees wax ain't quite correct.
 
To say none of the rings are bees wax ain't quite correct.
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I'll have to second that as the last one I installed clearly said it had "Some" bees wax in it.
Perhaps most do not but know that some definitely do. !!! ;)


Be Safe !!!
 
Still plenty available in my neck of the woods.

I also have a source of soy wax that I'm tempted into trying.

Cannot recommend toilet ring seal wax - too much petroleum-based paraffin, which is not a good thing to have in close proximity to BP. :o
 
soy wax
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Sounds like another organic-hippy-co-op item. Cool! I can get a lava lamp, an 8" peace patch for the back of my trousers, some little round screens and organic soy wonder wads. :) Who said the Haight-Ashbury died in '69?.
 
Yeah, it's worth a try.

Maybe hemp fiber over-powder wads? :D

I've been digging around a bit on the paraffin wax thing, since my chemistry taught me that the stuff is refined from petroleum.

Turns out that the paraffin wax our mothers used to make freezer jam, etc. with has less than one percent petroleum oil left after production. That tiny bit is insignificant with respect to nasty and gnarly BP/petroleum fouling, so it's not a bad thing if you cannot find beeswax.

http://www.bpcr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

We have a lot of beekeepers in my neck of the woods, and I have roughly 10 pounds squirreled away to keep my BPCR guns shooting for a long time. I may still try the soy wax as a "what-if", but if one couldn't find the organics, perhaps heading to WalMart and buying some Gulf canning wax would keep one going.
 
I have read that it does not matter what type of grease you use, but I won't argue about it.

If you HAVE to have bee's wax, go to an apiary site and buy all the "foundations" you want. Sheets of pure bee's wax. Start at about a buck each.

I use a mix of bee's wax, mutton tallow, actually sheep fat, made myself when baking a piece of lamb, and olive oil. Lamb fat is soft at ambient temps, and when mixed with enough olive oil (use the "Pomace", the cheap stuff, not the EVOO), it will be spreadable. I found out a long time ago that unless you keep your tube of "Bore Butter" in your armpit in the cold weather, you ain't squeezing it out of the tube.

I soak woolen cloth in the mix and let it gel, use 3/8 and half inch punches to make .36 and .44 under powder wads. I bought a full length lady's coat at Salvation Army store for 10 bucks. Wads are near an 1/8 inch thick. Melt in the nuke in a CD stack cover. Make hundreds of them in a short time.

The toilet bowl rings I looked at in the HD and Lowe's stores say explicitly that they are petroleum waxes. Bee's wax is as hard at room temp as paraffin is. You will not seat a toilet on a pure bee's wax ring. Hard as a rock.

Cheers,

George

mykeal,

PURE lamb tallow would make a heavenly smell when you shoot, too. I love lamb. Mebbe some of the shooters should try peanut oil as the oil part of the blend.
 
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