John wrote:

> Going on Tony's recipe of 1 cup of each of the three ingredients, I  took a
> cube of beeswax that displaced 1 cup of water (cube of wax was 2.5 x 2.5  x
> 2 inches), put it in the freezer overnight, grated it into fine shavings
> using  an ordinary hand food grater, and put these shavings into a jar
> along
> with 1 cup of fresh mineral spirits.  The resultant mixture appears to be
> the consistency of peanut butter to which a generous handful of coarse
> sawdust  has been added.  There is nothing approaching a solution.  In
> fact,  not
> even all of the wax particles have been wetted.
>
> Do I just wait and see what happens, do I add more mineral spirits (say 1/2
>  cup more), and then should I increase the amount of BLO to 1.5 cups?

Maybe I missed it, but did you add the BLO too?
When I've done it, the result was a thick liquid.  You might try warming it
(carefully) just a little.  I was never patient enough to let it sit and
dissolve.  Plus, is it possible that some of it is still frozen?

~Jeff
in Memphis, TN
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