cheap solar wax melter

[steve1958]

The basic elements of this small solar wax melter are a polystyrene box and a pane of glass.

The melter photographed above has been tilted towards the sun with a house brick.
Inside it has a chip basket hooked over a 5 litre icecream bucket .
The basket is lined with a layer of kitchen roll and is filled with the cappings (compressed by hand) from about 12 extracted frames.

And it works

 

[tkwinston4]

No picture!

 

[justme]

still no picture but would like to see one:.)

 

[harveyzone]

The image wasn't there for me either, but I went and viewed the source page here, and now the image shows.

Strange.

 

[Russel]

Have an old cooler box gathering dust in the shed, will see how that wrks out? Meltdown!

 

[steve1958]