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<\/a><\/p>\nAs it set, the temperatures would run around 160\u00b0 F, so I decided to line the inside with 1\/2″ pink insulation and to paint the inside surfaces black which set the temps up to\u00a0210\u00b0 F (high as\u00a0I saw).<\/p>\n
I ran it a few times playing with it and collecting the big bits and pieces, then ran my collections as a whole adding some cheesecloth to the process as a filter\u00a0and changed the collection\u00a0pan to\u00a0small crock (also a Good Will find) and was really was impressed with the final product. A solid chunk of clean wax.<\/p>\n
Bring on the wax molds, here come the candles.<\/p>\n
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So we’ve got some friends of the family and Al is a long time beekeeper with a pretty cool take\u00a0on a solar wax melter using a plastic bin. I had looked\u00a0over a few designs for wooden ones and such, then decided on a blend of materials for a model very similar to Al’s. Thanks Al. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,61,27,28,11,15,16,22,26,25,24,23],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-beehive","tag-beekeeping","tag-beeswax","tag-candles","tag-hive","tag-honey","tag-honey-bees","tag-melter","tag-solar-melter","tag-solar-wax-melter","tag-wax","tag-wax-melter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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