3crows

How about that green slime that they put in tires to seal punctures? Just squirt it in, swish it around and PRESTO! no leaks! Anybody ever tried microcrystaline wax? I used to use it to cast bronze sculpture. It's kind of hard and kind of sticky.You can buy it with different melting points too. Think that will be my next experiment. Oh, I'm in Washington state, USA. That might explain my sense of humor and my willingness to destroy something in the attempt at fixing it.

Guess I should add that I'm thinking the problem with the first mix was that boiling water is not hot enough to liquify the resin. It requires higher heat so I melted the rosin on the stove first then added the beeswax . That makes sense since what you're doing is raising the melting point of the beeswax so when you leave your concertina or accordion in the car in the summer it won't sound like a maraca when you pick it up and try to play it. I googled for the reedwax recipe. Still a problem. I reheated the mixture and added a little linseed oil as Theo suggested. As the mixture cooled the rosin settled out and solidified before the beeswax does. Back to zero.

Well fellows, I tried it again. The first time I tried to make the mix I floated a cannin boiling water to melt the beeswax and then added the rosin. That made the gooie mess. This time I melted the rosin first direcly on the stove and added the beeswax to the melted rosin. It seems to have worked as I now have a homogenous mixture. I'm using rock rosin, the stuff dancers use on the floor to keep from falling on their tootoos. I used about 25 to 30% rosin. I neglected to add linseed oil, olive oil or glycerin to the mix as stated in the recepies. I haven't tried it yet. I'll post the resultes when I do.

That's the one I used and it didn't work. The resin just turned to goo in melted beeswax. I heated them togather for quite awhile but the resin wouldn't liquify.

Hi, I have an old Hohner accordion with loose reed blocks. Any of you ever try to make reed wax? I read on the internet to mix beeswax and resin about 50-50 for reed wax. I tried to make the mix and found that the beeswax and the rock rosin don't mix. The beeswax gets like water but the rock rosin gets like taffy. Can I just use beeswax to seal the reeds?