deb426 Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Hi,I need some input here if possible. I am working on a new line of candles for a store that specializes in recycled items. I am using veggie tins for containers. I use C-3 wax and 1.5 fo pp. I use ECO wicks.I am currently testing 8 scents. I have five which are good all the way to the end. One has been set aside for now. Two are giving me a headache. The two scents each did the same thing about an inch or inch and one-half from the bottom, both using ECO 10.. After having a full melt pool and good burn for most of the container, the wick just disappeared. It didn’t really drown. The wax stopped getting a full melt pool and became kind of "sludgy" for want of a better term. It just hung in there between being solid and being liquid until the wick got too short. I tried a smaller wick for both of these but the flame was way too small. I am sure that a bigger wick will be too big.Anyone else familiar with this? I have had the sludgy bottoms before when working on large containers but never to the point that the wick disappeared. I know that soy burns down and then out and I believe that this can make the bottom of a larger container tricky. BTW, a veggie tin is a smidge less than 3 inches wide and 4 ½ inches tall. Thanks,Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrbd Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Just some things that came to mind...Are the two of them by any chance a heavy scent? if so maybe cutting down on the FO will help. How about your dye in these two. Are you using a lot more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deb426 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 They are dye free and both a lighter oils. I have used these two scents for two years with no problems in my other containers. I usually make 8 oz. jj and some other small tins and jars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deb426 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Never mind, I figured out what I did.Thanks anyway, Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrbd Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 great.. got me curious:confused: what was it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deb426 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 My stupidity. I am embarrassed to say that I forgot that I had inserted the wicks without tabs for just an initial test for flame size. I was trying to dial in the wick size for a proper test for these two scents. All of a sudden this morning on my way to work it hit me that these were the two that I did that with.:embarasse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrbd Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 That's because you appear to be nuts like me. I see the time of your post and I laugh. I am up sooo late at night and back up in the morning. I don't stop . Mistakes are goona happen when your nuts. I am nuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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