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Looking For Ideas As To How To Break Up Blocks Of Beeswax
manfre:
I use a meat cleaver and chip away small pieces at a time.
JackInCT:
There are some really great ideas here, and as soon as I complete the Spring garden setup, I will be trying some. From a serendipity perspective, as a very amateur woodworker, this brainstorm needs to be evaluated: put the FROZEN block in the canvas bag idea, seal/close off the mouth of the bag with large spring binder clips (the kind sold in any office supply store) to keep everything inside the bag, and then take a C-Clamp and screw it down until the block breaks; might take a few tightenings to get ALL the pieces small enough to fit inside the double boiler, but you can apply a great deal of torque to the clamp as you turn the screw.
Bee Happy:
I can tell you how I would shape or break concrete...
-drill multiple holes along your cut line like a "cut along dotted line" concept. Melt the drill shavings later.
Jim said freeze them, that probably wouldn't hurt either this way, maybe after you drill.
then use a chisel in the middle of the holes, it will break right along where you drilled.
G3farms:
bigger double boiler!!
hatchet or ax, put the wax on a large piece of fire wood and have at it.
G3
Michael Bush:
I use a small ax and two piecies of wood and some newspaper. Put the newspaper down. Put the blocks of wood at each end of the block and the block on top. Try to make a straight line down the center with the hatchet until it breaks. If you get a good line on one side, flip it over and make one on the other side. If you get that done, make one on the ends and then repeat on the flat sides. Be prepared to pick up peices of wax from around wherever you do this. I do it outside...
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