What's up guys, how y'all doing? So today's video
I'm going to show you how to melt and filter all the wax capping so we can make
Candles or other things with the beeswax.
Beeswax is pretty expensive
So we're going to melt it, filter the beeswax, and make a cube of wax. There's lots of different methods to do it
So this is one of the methods
I tried to do solar method and it just have not stopped raining or always cloudy. Look at these clouds.
It's just not enough sun to melt the wax with the solar method. By the way
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I like one of these portable stoves that way I can- if I spill wax, I don't have to clean it as much
It's not like it's going to be burn up my kitchen, so I'm going to put it on low, okay
It's burning then I'm going to put the pot on top of it
Boom, just like this. This is the super Beeswax. That's why it's so beautiful and clean.
And I let the bees clean it out
So that way it does not have any honey. As you can see it's melting pretty fast. I should probably take down the
The temperature. So you don't want it to boil
we want it to- all of it to melt. Now you see that most of the
Beeswax is now melted, but there's so much junk on top of it
So that's why we want to filter it. Also what I got this container like that
Put filter in, put it like that
This is just a coffee filter because we're going to do it real cheap, and then I got the lid and made hole into it
And then I'm just going to hang it like this
So I can put a lot of beeswax in, and I'm close it.
Now we're going to grab all this beeswax, looks like it's all melted, you see it? and
pour it into here
You see how much gunk there is?
inside of this
wax Boom. And as you can see all the wax is pouring down
Over here into the container and look how much junk there is. You know what I noticed slowly
Editing is the best way that way
Once it kind of cools off you put a little bit more of hot wax and that
way, it heats up again and straining again. Do you hear it? It's dripping pretty well
*Dripping noises*
That's what we want to hear. Do you see all that mess over here? You don't want to
Have it in your box. But also after you're done with this don't throw it away
This is actually could be really good fire starter for camps or whatever you're going to do
I do make bonfires all the time, so this is could be very useful
Boom look at that wax, is burning so well
So don't necessarily throw away those layer pieces
Because that definitely makes it a good firestarter, as you can see it's burning for a while, that's for sure
All that wax leftover it is perfect
Boom. At the same time you get yourself little fire starters.
So definitely save those, maybe put it in some kind of ziplock bag
And it will be good fire starter for your next bonfire or whatever. You see how this piece of paper is burning, but really it's wax burning right here
- that's why it's burns for so long. This is pretty slow, but look at that
That's quite a bit of wax. I like that so far
Let's try to use a paper towel instead this time instead of coffee filter
Let's see if it's going to be any faster. Going to make it deeper inside of it, okay
Let's pour it in here once again
But this time is paper towel. Look at all that gunk inside of it. That's what we don't want.
It looks like it was clean wax but look at that gunk
Just going to pour it all in. I don't know if you can see, but so far
I like the paper towel a little bit better because
It's dripping much much better. It actually flows. It doesn't even drip.
It's a pretty good flow going down
So all I have to do is just wait until it
Filters all the way in and then we're going to take off that paper towel and see what happens the rest of it
you know what guys, it's actually filtering pretty good. Look at it. Honestly, I like
Honestly, I almost like way -
I actually like paper towel. I honestly like paper towel way better. It's filtering too, a lot faster.
And look at all that gunk that I don't want to have it in my wax
So definitely does the job pretty good, and I'll save this to start my bonfires. There you go guys, finally cooled off
That's a pretty good sized piece of Beeswax
Definitely can make a good sized piece of candle. Cannot wait to make a beeswax candle.
Well guys, that's pretty much it. So we have to filter Beeswax before we can make candles or whatever it is, so
For the solar, hopefully soon enough, we're going to have a full day of sun
And maybe we will be able to actually melt a lot of wax at once using Solar method
I like solar method probably the best because you can do a lot of wax at once so maybe I probably will even buy like about
$100 solar melter and actually do all my wax at once because I have a lot of wax
Look at this Wax
That's a lot of wax to melt and if I'm going to be sitting here with the pots
filtering, it's going to take me a long time
So what I'm actually going to do is get Solar bee's wax melter
And I'll show you how to use it and how to set it up and hopefully I'll get a good one
I saw one about hundred bucks. We'll see if it was a good idea. Well guys, that's pretty much it
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