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  1. Thank you for the heads up. That would be really bad when using them for food preservation and dangerous for candles.
  2. Me too! It has gotten so bad that every time I go to buy something, I have to search and search and if I find it, I buy multiples of whatever it is. I heard it was like that in the former USSR. If you saw a line you got in it, even if you had no idea what food or necessity it was. And hoped they didn't run out of whatever it was. There was an old joke over there about what was better, Capitalist Hell or Communist Hell. Well it is Communist Hell because sometimes they run out of boiling oil, sometimes they run out of fire....but Capitalist Hell always has everything to make life miserable! I guess we are there now too.
  3. Very good advice. I research and order parts and equipment for appliances and hvac for a living and everything is in short supply or backordered. The time to buy it is when you see it!
  4. If you want to do gifts, try water options like melts or potpourri... Something without an open flame.
  5. I would not give any of your candles as gifts until you have tested for a while. You don't want your friends to burn down their homes and sue you, do you?
  6. My method is crude but effective. If I could pick up my jar with a nearly full melt pool and carry it to the next room, it was not too hot. LOL! And cheap too.
  7. Yes, it was good. It was 4630 paraffin wax. Before I cut back I tried just about every type of wick I could find but they all drowned until I cut back on the FO.
  8. My normal fragrance load was 6%. I could not wick Leak's Amish Harvest until I cut back to 4.5%, then success! That was with 4639 paraffin wax though.
  9. Or to sell. There are jars on eBay but the prices are high. All depends on how old they are. For canning, the lids have a lifespan. The rubber can degrade over time or in heat and not seal properly. Fine for candles.
  10. I used a little dab of mold sealing putty and very rarely did I have a wick come loose. It was easy to remove after rewarming too.
  11. As TallTayl said, it was likely thermal shock. This can happen if the flame burns too low in the jar. One way I found to prevent this was to use a wick tab with a tall neck. That way the flame will usually self extinguish before it burns down to the glass. I used to deliberately burn mine to the bottom to test this. I have had canning jars break around the bottom when my jar cooled slightly and then put it in the boiling water bath. Definitely tell your friend. That is what testing is about.
  12. Hey everyone. Just found that Uline shows some jars in stock by the case and some by the skid.
  13. Years ago I bought jars at Big Lots. May be worth a try.
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