Galoots:

Beeswax is an essential ingredient in accordion building and repair. I have
a bit of experience in handling this stuff, and if you do a search on
accordion wax at rec.music.makers.squeezebox, you can read a few cautionary
tales of igniting beeswax and skin grafting. Of course, this is followed by
flaming (no pun intended) posts along the lines of "I've been melting wax
since before you were born, who are you to tell me..."

 It's never happened to me, but according to others, beeswax will ignite,
and water doesn't do much to put out the fire- it just serves to fling
flaming gobs of wax everywhere, maybe even on you. The main advice is to
melt small batches. Be careful out there.

Art Bailey
Queens, NY.

John says...
> Nothing.  Nothing. Nothing. Big, big, pot. Watched. Not hot.