James, I have just returned from the North Carolina PTG Conference and my wife and I visited many antique shops on the way up and back. One of the shops sold a product called "Briwax" which is a mixture of carnauba and beeswax mixed with toluene as a carrying agent. If it's a carnauba wax product you were trying to mix, "Briwax" might be what you're looking for. The manufacturer can be reached at 1-800-327-4929. If you have a FAX machine I can fax you their brochure. Ted Simmons Merritt Island, FL > Yesterday I bought a pound of carnuba wax flakes/crystals/powder. >($16.95) I tried melting it in a baby food jar in my electric glue pot. >Didn't work. I then took it upstairs and put the jar in a pan and boiled >water with the jar sitting in it. It melted. I let it cool and it >solidified again and came out just as hard as it was before except it was >now a solid mass. I then took the melted carnuba and melted my regular wax >and mixed the two. Does any one have experience with the proper way to mix >this carnuba to where it is useable? I suspect that the carnuba did not mix >with my regular wax and when I get to it in the can it will be clunks of >hard mass? The people at the woodstore didn't know any more than I do. > >Is anyone using the bag type dust collectors in their shop? I looked at the >Jet 1 hp unit and the Delta 1.5 HP unit. Has anyone tried picking up >shaving from a working lathe? Are you using a second stage (trash can) to >collect the heavier stuff before it goes into the bag? Any opinions? >Thanks > > I thought this would make a good Christmas present for my wife, don't >you think? :>) > >James Grebe >R.P.T. of the P.T.G >pianoman@inlink.com >Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in >St. Louis, MO
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