Great stuff. Thank you mate. Just had my first go at making 200grams of this today. I added a teaspoon of mineral oil and some cedar essential oil. Ive been a big fan of Fabsil because I use it on my tents, but I decided to start waxing more of my clothes after spending 3 days camping in torrential rain. Chemical water proofing is fine for lightweight gear like tents, but on your outer clothing, waxing is king. I had a cloth hood - hat combo, both saturated in fabsil, but after a day they eventually failed. The combination of relentless rain and mechanical action was just too much. Im also starting to realise that chemical water proofers are fragile. If you need to wipe dirt off, that might break the waterproofing. Not an issue with Greenland Wax. Great video, thanks for the tips.
I use beeswax to paint encaustic with and in my experience it is not soft. So my question is, why not use just beeswax? I’m curious about this as I want to wax an apron so it will not absorb my watercolors when I’m painting. I want it to remain pliable of course but I want to waterproof it. Thank you.
Bees wax can have a sticky residue when it is used by itself whereas Paraffin wax by itself will be be brittle and inflexible. 10% bee to paraffin is enough to make the paraffin pliable. Paraffin is more durable and lasts longer in the fabric when in contact with water, it has a higher melting point and is typically more accessible and cheaper. So overall it depends on the application that you are using it for. Traditionally people would have used a range of fat products such as lard and tallow to provide different fluid resistance and pliability to a range of products. Hope this is helpful, Thanks for the support. Nat
Thanks for the comment. Yes bees wax has a higher melting point than bees wax, but the molecular structure of bees wax allows it to bend and absorb shear forces. In this way it feels like it can be partially melted at a lower temperature even though it is technically a solid. The diagram linked shows the shear forces with different compositions of beeswax and paraffin wax. www.researchgate.net/figure/Composition-linked-to-mechanical-properties-of-beeswax-associated-with-orange-box-and_fig5_349597980
Great stuff. Thank you mate.
Just had my first go at making 200grams of this today. I added a teaspoon of mineral oil and some cedar essential oil. Ive been a big fan of Fabsil because I use it on my tents, but I decided to start waxing more of my clothes after spending 3 days camping in torrential rain. Chemical water proofing is fine for lightweight gear like tents, but on your outer clothing, waxing is king.
I had a cloth hood - hat combo, both saturated in fabsil, but after a day they eventually failed. The combination of relentless rain and mechanical action was just too much. Im also starting to realise that chemical water proofers are fragile. If you need to wipe dirt off, that might break the waterproofing. Not an issue with Greenland Wax.
Great video, thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the support.
If you have access to one, a heat gun works alot faster than an iron.
I use beeswax to paint encaustic with and in my experience it is not soft. So my question is, why not use just beeswax? I’m curious about this as I want to wax an apron so it will not absorb my watercolors when I’m painting. I want it to remain pliable of course but I want to waterproof it. Thank you.
Bees wax can have a sticky residue when it is used by itself whereas Paraffin wax by itself will be be brittle and inflexible. 10% bee to paraffin is enough to make the paraffin pliable. Paraffin is more durable and lasts longer in the fabric when in contact with water, it has a higher melting point and is typically more accessible and cheaper. So overall it depends on the application that you are using it for. Traditionally people would have used a range of fat products such as lard and tallow to provide different fluid resistance and pliability to a range of products. Hope this is helpful, Thanks for the support. Nat
With so little beeswax why not just use all paraffin for water proofing ?
That nice thought but whee u getting beeswax , I got mine from my bee hives, bees wax is A SOLID and melts at a HIGHER TEMPATURE THAN PARIFIN
Thanks for the comment. Yes bees wax has a higher melting point than bees wax, but the molecular structure of bees wax allows it to bend and absorb shear forces. In this way it feels like it can be partially melted at a lower temperature even though it is technically a solid. The diagram linked shows the shear forces with different compositions of beeswax and paraffin wax. www.researchgate.net/figure/Composition-linked-to-mechanical-properties-of-beeswax-associated-with-orange-box-and_fig5_349597980