TaCa

I am grasping at straw now is there any way you wicks may have got wet then dried out. A lot of wick are chemically treated so them getting wet may have done some thing to the treatment.

Well anything could have happened before I received them but not after. Both batches have had problems. I will be testing tomorrow and I will post my results after. Hopefully a common denominator with show it ugly face I can end this stressfull time.

My comment about a new batch of wax and a new batch of wicks may be misleading. The wicks were from the same manufacturer and so was the wax. They were just pulled off of a new pallet that I had received and again I had problems.

As far as the FO I buy from numerous manufacturers and I have had returns on each fragrance.

keep them coming, someone may hit on something

TaCa, yes I have heard of that before & it WAS the wicks. To my recollection, it was a bad batch of wicks that Robert at Taylored Concepts had received and they had the same grey ash that yours have. He contacted the wick supplier & they replaced them all, but a lot of candlemakers made candles with the bad wicks, myself included. Robert helped us all thru it. My suggestion, get wicks from another source and test them. Carole

That is the type of information I am looking for. So far the two variables that match in the problem is the wax and the wick. This is like conducting a 6th grade science project. I am mixing and matching everything and it all points at the wick.

The reason I posted was to find out if anyone else was having problems like this to help narrow it down.

Thanks Carole.

Anyone else had it happen??

Well in the FO it is doing it you are going to have to up your wick size. Not all FO use the same wick size. Some FO even require a different type of wick that is why testing each and every FO, wax and wick combo throughly is so important.

I am not sure how you can expect the same wick size to work with all FO. In my experience it doesn't work that way.

Thanks for trying to help but this setup has been fine for more than 4 years with no problems, as I attempted to point out in the initial post. This is a new problem which indicates somethings has changed. It is not the wick "size".

I am having some serious issues with my wicks. I am using two Zinc core 51-32-18 in 16 oz apothecary jars. The mouth of the jar is four inches in diameter. I am using IGI 6006 wax.

Here is the problem. Some wicks are ashing up and eventually stop burning. The wick does not mushroom but gets a sharp point on the end and they turn white. Once they burn out if you let the wax cool you can light it again but it only burns a few minutes.

I have experimented with everything from a new batch of wax a new batch of wicks and it still occurs. I sent several candles to the wick company and they said the wicks were good. The wax rep. said nothing in the wax had changed.

The problem has occurred with several different fragrances manufactured by a couple of different fragrance companies. The problem has also occurred with a couple of different colors.

I have made thousands of candles with the same setup and until last month I never had a problem.

If anyone has had similar problems PLEASE help!?!?!?