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  1. Forrest
    If nothing else I am consistent, constantly wrong. My only experience with tins is with high end candles and they don’t use color. I think they charge extra for that.
  2. Forrest
    I saved it from the scrap heap almost 30 years ago and finding a use for it now has saved it again. Thank you, you have given me an idea. The dollar store has plastic table cloths that might be just what I need, and I believe we may have one at home.
  3. Forrest
    This answered one of my questions, but I would like to know more about the ladle you use. I just got my first Presto Pot and I was thinking about getting some glass beakers with handles to get the wax into the pour pot. I'll never need to fill it so maybe I just need to pour directly from the Presto, OTOH given my history that seems like a risky thing to do.
  4. Forrest
    There has been a lot of discussion about color of candles effecting sales, but I don’t remember this one point being discussed. For tins, or other nontransparent containers, would adding dye help, or hurt your sales?
  5. Forrest
    As perhaps the person here with the most experience beating my head against 11oz tureens I would highly recommend you not try and double wick them. I had some success single wicking them with CDs, try a CD8 maybe. I was using 6006, but wicking for 4630 is usually close.
  6. Forrest
    Newspapers? I didn't know they still made those.🤣
  7. Forrest
    Suppose I had a way to warm my FO before adding it to my wax, would there be any issues with that? Perhaps I should not warm it beyond the flash point, and I don’t think it should be left to evaporate for very long. It would be nice if I could warm it enough to keep my wax from dropping below 180 when I add the FO.
  8. Forrest
    Yes, test every FO, here is what I do. I choose a wick that tends to be small in my container, with my wax, with most FOs. I make a candle and give it the proper cure time. I burn it for 3-4 hours. If the burn is good I give it a second day, if not I perform a wickectomy and replace the wick with one that seems better and test with that wick. I can usually test 3 wicks in one candle, and 80% of the time that’s enough. I recently tested 18 different FOs in 8oz tins using 6006 and I was shocked at the number of different wicks I needed.
  9. Forrest
    I think I need a dissertation on how the four vessel characteristics impact hot throw
  10. Forrest
    I probably keep mine six to eight inches apart, but that might be overkill. I do know that even a very little external heat will mess with your test results.
  11. Forrest
    I spent Labor Day laboring in the garage, so now I have a work space. I won’t go into the reasons I’m using my great great grandmother’s mahogany dining room table to make candles in the garage as it is a long story, but there it is. I would prefer to have something between the mahogany and the candle making. I’m looking for ideas on what I could protect the surface with. It is a drop leaf table so I need something flexible. Do any of you cover your work space?
  12. Forrest
    My guess is it would be roughly equivalent to an LX 14, but that's just a guess
  13. Forrest
    You only have two options that I can see, either you heat your wax to a higher temp, or you warm your FO. I used to warm the beaker I weighed my FO and that helped a little. Backing off the % of FO would help also. I would suggest you make a few test candles at lower percentages and see how they work. I used to use the max recommended percentage, but I'm using 7% now and it seems to work well for me.
  14. Forrest
    I would add that if you pour at a low temp and stir before pouring it helps keep a homogeneous mixture, which is good for your HT.
  15. Forrest
    I live in North Alabama, on a really day hot my garage could reach 90, but the morning wouldn't be hot, during the winter there might be a few days I wouldn't want work in the garage, but mostly it isn't too cold in the afternoon. The good thing is I don't have to make candles, so if it is too hot or cold I'll just wait for milder weather.
  16. Forrest
    Just my candle making, the wife still lets me in the house most of the time. I’d need to buy a couple of Presto Pots and maybe a hotplate. I would also need to restrict my candle making to the morning during the summer and afternoon during the winter, but it would get me out of the kitchen and there wouldn’t be wax on the counter tops, or the floor, or stove, or cabinet doors. I will still keep my wax in the house, but all my other candle stuff is already in the garage. Does anyone have experience with candle making in an uncontrolled environment? I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything.
  17. Forrest
    But I have 40 Christmas candles under the bed and I don't know which are new wax and which are old wax. Hopefully my wax is good, I didn't notice any difference. But I was planning to make a bunch of candles for long cures next week. I'll just have to burn one of the last Christmas candles I made and hope it is the new wax.
  18. Forrest
    Now I'm getting worried. I bought some 6006 back in May and I used it for some candles that I am doing a long cure on. I guess I better test it. I'm wondering if they used some bad soy wax that they couldn't sell to make a batch of 6006. I'm liking 4630 more and more.
  19. Forrest
    I've not had any wet spots in my tins yet, but as long as the candle smell good I'll probably just ignore them, and if anybody says anything I'll cut off their supply of free candles.
  20. Forrest
    I buy from Flaming and I got one batch that was different, a little bit darker, and needed a slightly bigger wick. I just blended it with some old 6006 and it all evened out. I think when I finish the 6006 I have I'm going to concentrate on 4630 for a while, I find I like the instant gratification.
  21. Forrest
    My operation is small, and my FO addition recovery therapy has been going well so I could probably get by with a dorm frig if I can find one.
  22. Forrest
    That is a very good point. I'll also need to keep anything with FO on it out of the trash.
  23. Forrest
    The thing is, as a hobbyist it doesn't matter to me if the candle works for someone else, but I suppose that would tell me if it if the problem was me or the candle.
  24. Forrest
    And they are easy to wick...compared to tureens
  25. Forrest
    I’m now realizing that making scented candles, because you enjoy scented candles, keeps you from enjoying scented candles. So now I have a house that is full of fragrance pollution, and it is desensitizing my nose. I’m thinking I need to get all of my FOs and candles out of the house, which means storing them in the garage. I don’t like that idea, but I haven’t come up with a better one. Any ideas?
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