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I finally received my tins of M16 paste wax in the mail Saturday that I had purchased from the big Ebay sell off.
I immediately opened them up to check their condition. All 3 cans were a thick pudding like consistency with one being a light blue color and the other two cans being a purplish blue color.
I then closed the cans up and left them to sit out in the garage over night to see if the wax would set up any.
This morning I went out to the garage to check and all 3 cans were still a thick pudding like consistency. I remembered reading a while back that PorscheGuy997 had re-melted some of his waxes, so I figured I would take one of my cans and give it a try.
This is the test can that I am going to try and re-melt with the intention of getting the wax components remixed back together so that they will hopefully re-solidify back to original condition. You can see the thick pudding like consistency.
Since I do not have a double boiler, I took a saucepan and poured an inch or so of water into the pan and then took a small glass bowl and turned it upside down in the saucepan in order to sit the tin of wax on, to keep it out of the water during the melting process.
I placed the tin of wax on top of the upside down glass bowl inside the sauce pan and heated up the water to just below the boiling point and then gradually melted the wax down stirring occasionally to mix everything together until the wax contents were completely liquid (not paste) like shown below.
After having finished melting the wax down and making sure the contents were mixed up thoroughly, I took the wax off of the heat and set it aside to cool.
Later on in the day, this is what I am left with. The wax looks like new and appears to be setting up nicely.
I immediately opened them up to check their condition. All 3 cans were a thick pudding like consistency with one being a light blue color and the other two cans being a purplish blue color.
I then closed the cans up and left them to sit out in the garage over night to see if the wax would set up any.
This morning I went out to the garage to check and all 3 cans were still a thick pudding like consistency. I remembered reading a while back that PorscheGuy997 had re-melted some of his waxes, so I figured I would take one of my cans and give it a try.
This is the test can that I am going to try and re-melt with the intention of getting the wax components remixed back together so that they will hopefully re-solidify back to original condition. You can see the thick pudding like consistency.
Since I do not have a double boiler, I took a saucepan and poured an inch or so of water into the pan and then took a small glass bowl and turned it upside down in the saucepan in order to sit the tin of wax on, to keep it out of the water during the melting process.
I placed the tin of wax on top of the upside down glass bowl inside the sauce pan and heated up the water to just below the boiling point and then gradually melted the wax down stirring occasionally to mix everything together until the wax contents were completely liquid (not paste) like shown below.
After having finished melting the wax down and making sure the contents were mixed up thoroughly, I took the wax off of the heat and set it aside to cool.
Later on in the day, this is what I am left with. The wax looks like new and appears to be setting up nicely.
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. They will be fine.
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