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I need to make some small “feeder bricks” of wax for several Fire In A Can pots.
Those feeder bricks can be as crude as irregular-chunks, simply cutting/busting up some virgin wax sheets, or tossing in household candle leftovers, but I again want to make a few melted wax custom feeders with citronella, and some with some funky flames additive for trippy colored flame staring.
Maybe some with stare entranced at the funky flames color additive on the outside, and a small pile of black powder in the center as a surprising flare. Maybe not. Depends on how thoughtfully I imprint “STAND BACK” on the wax brick additives.
I need to find new wax-briquette molds. The plastic pipette tip boxes worked OK as feeder brick molds, but they were oversized for all but the largest stock pot FIACs, and I’m about out of My-Precious pipette tip boxes in any case. 35 years in the lab, why didn’t I scarf more of those from the trash? So freaking handy for small parts and pieces.
I need suggestions for new (cheap) containers in which to make smaller, still consistently sized feeder bricks. Small, cheap containers plural; there’s no sense making one briquette at a time when I’m pouring custom wax briquette flavors.
Maybe wax poured into an ice cube tray. Once the wax cooled those would go in the freezer nicely, and once frozen I might be able to knock out cube-sized feeders. Or some other inexpensive, re-usable containers for, at the largest, bar-of-soap-sized feeder molds.
Lots of additives and flavors to choose from. I have Citronella oil, Funky Flames, and several year’s stash of the Missus’ saved candle stubs, mostly the last couple inches of fat scented candles from bow window and bathrooms.
The feeder bricks labeled “Frou-Frou” may be a scented wax mixture of leftover Lavender, Gardenia, and something labeled “Jamaica Breeze”. Which I believe smells like a Caribbean beachfront mix of sea air, dead fish and sticky-icky.
Any ideas for cheap/reusable containers to pour melted wax feeders, something between ice cube and bath soap size? Small-ish is good; it’s fun to repeatedly feed the flames, especially with the occasional WTF mystery wax cube.
Those feeder bricks can be as crude as irregular-chunks, simply cutting/busting up some virgin wax sheets, or tossing in household candle leftovers, but I again want to make a few melted wax custom feeders with citronella, and some with some funky flames additive for trippy colored flame staring.
Maybe some with stare entranced at the funky flames color additive on the outside, and a small pile of black powder in the center as a surprising flare. Maybe not. Depends on how thoughtfully I imprint “STAND BACK” on the wax brick additives.
I need to find new wax-briquette molds. The plastic pipette tip boxes worked OK as feeder brick molds, but they were oversized for all but the largest stock pot FIACs, and I’m about out of My-Precious pipette tip boxes in any case. 35 years in the lab, why didn’t I scarf more of those from the trash? So freaking handy for small parts and pieces.
I need suggestions for new (cheap) containers in which to make smaller, still consistently sized feeder bricks. Small, cheap containers plural; there’s no sense making one briquette at a time when I’m pouring custom wax briquette flavors.
Maybe wax poured into an ice cube tray. Once the wax cooled those would go in the freezer nicely, and once frozen I might be able to knock out cube-sized feeders. Or some other inexpensive, re-usable containers for, at the largest, bar-of-soap-sized feeder molds.
Lots of additives and flavors to choose from. I have Citronella oil, Funky Flames, and several year’s stash of the Missus’ saved candle stubs, mostly the last couple inches of fat scented candles from bow window and bathrooms.
The feeder bricks labeled “Frou-Frou” may be a scented wax mixture of leftover Lavender, Gardenia, and something labeled “Jamaica Breeze”. Which I believe smells like a Caribbean beachfront mix of sea air, dead fish and sticky-icky.
Any ideas for cheap/reusable containers to pour melted wax feeders, something between ice cube and bath soap size? Small-ish is good; it’s fun to repeatedly feed the flames, especially with the occasional WTF mystery wax cube.
