I don't think so. Machinable wax is a mixture of wax and plastic. There are recipes online that use paraffin for the wax and either HDPE or LDPE for the plastic. I don't know what the commercial versions are made of.
-- Russell Mac
I don't think so. Machinable wax is a mixture of wax and plastic. There are recipes online that use paraffin for the wax and either HDPE or LDPE for the plastic. I don't know what the commercial versions are made of.
You're welcome!BadDog wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 12:01 pm Thanks for the great information!
I wonder if cooling it slowly would help. It does for similar issues in some metals, glass, etc. Maybe wrap it in a heavy blanket when it comes out of the oven? Or if a small toaster oven type affair, just turn it off and wrap the whole thing.
I think I mentioned earlier that I prefer to cool my material in the melting container rather than transfer it to a different mold and force it to cool under pressure. So for me, material with a high melt flow index (MFI) works best. That rules out containers like motor oil bottles, milk jugs, detergent bottles, etc. since they are all blow molded using a low-MFI HDPE variant. It's also really hard to get oil bottles in particular perfectly clean.Harold_V wrote: Quart oil containers are offered in colors, as well as large buckets. In your experience, have you tried using them, and, if so, have you mixed types? What types of containers have you used with success?
Before I figured out the difference between high-MFI injection molded items and low-MFI blow molded items, I would just throw a bit of everything into the pan and hope for the best. And depending on what "everything" was on a particular day, the results would be sometimes good and sometimes not so good. Items in my pictures with lots of different colors came from the times I simply got lucky with a mix of unknown materials.What combination have you tried and not achieved success?