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Hi, Does anyone have any plans for making a wax melter please
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Not sure what you have in mind, this yootoob video shows a homemade steam generated melter being 'built' and worked - ingenious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j53cGXJ0ttY
Polyhive had some videos at one stage, of his design in use.
Here is his original with dimensions:
And my interpretation of it:
This type is great for final cleaning of wax before use.
A solar or steam driven one is best for stripping frames and so on...
Sorry - posts crossed.
I use muslin. The difference between Polyhives and mine was the heating - I pu an electric element in mine, he uses a propane stove underneath.
I made one when I was a teenager going into my 20's with an old electric kettle with the 3 round pins instead of the modern 3 blades. A car hosepipe (water) and an enamel funnel. The lid had a piece cut out of it and the filter was old flannelette sheeting. The kettle was placed in a large tray and boiling water poured through the funnel down to the spout of the kettle. Health and safety would have had a field day.
Hi, Does anyone have any plans for making a wax melter please
Cheers
No plans but here's the one I made - just 50mm Kingspan - corner joints reinforced with bamboo skewers, pva glued and then aluminium tape to seal it all up and the cut edges. Sheet of aluminium from an old caravan cut and bent to shape of a tray, sheet of greenhouse glass.
The aluminium 'tray' sits at an angle resting on a super frame - and empties the melted wax through a J cloth to filter it into an ice cream carton with some rainwater in it ..
Simples .. mine has lasted years and you can see in one photograph how effective it is by the melted thermometer !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125609724@N03/albums/72157655336719145
Thank you, I suppose I could use wood instead of the insolation, that's the sort of solar melter I want to make.
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