Wax screw lubrication

[big-all]

one off the quickest way off warming you hand up is a 4- 6" screw driven in and out off a bit off timber 2 or 3 times and juggle it from hand to hand quickly
perhaps a one-inch insertion and retraction and drop into an ever deeper hole in a candle as it melts the candle would only take a few seconds

 

[Makeitgo]

Sorry, just seen that SpecialK got there before me.

 

[StephenStephen]

I'm wondering about melting it and mixing it with linseed oil...

 

[Makeitgo]

Seems like turps is a solvent so experimentation with wax/turps mix ratios maybe?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Wax and screws - page 3. Impressive!

 

[bernardgreen]

Wax and screws - page 3. Impressive!

screws have long threads, interest never waines

 

[Oddbodkin]

I have a large stock of beeswax, so experimentation was the way to go.
I've found a 5:1 beeswax/petroleum jelly(Vaseline) mix, melted in a "double boiler"(bottom half of a beer can in a small pan of water) produces something soft enough to stick a screw in, sticky enough to stay in the threads & sufficiently lubricious to significantly ease the insertion of screws into everything from MDF to teak & 200 year old oak.
Sticking 5mm of the screw into the set mix provides plenty of lubrication for any screws I've used so far, up to 80mm.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Piloting with the right size hole also helps...

 

[Oddbodkin]

Piloting with the right size hole also helps...

With most natural timber, I'd say it's essential.
Too many people are in a rush these days, rather than doing the job reet.

 

[big-all]

"lubricatious" a brilliant term

 

[ETAF]

you may want to keep the candles , and use as lighting as the cost of electricity rises , more than predicted according to BBC

My dad , a carpenter used soap, so i followed

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Heat the screw up and plunge it into the candle. Don't heat it up too much though, just enough that the wax sets on the screw as the steel cools. Done it before and it works.

We're back to no hot works permitted on a building site unless,...etc, etc... Fundamentally, hot works are a fire risk so they require all kinds of precautions are taken so that some numpty doesn't burn the building down, y'know, like the Glasgow School of Art - twice!!!

 

[^woody^]

you may want to keep the candles , and use as lighting as the cost of electricity rises , more than predicted according to BBC

My dad , a carpenter used soap, so i followed

Same here, only I followed my dad not yours.

A quick light rub on the bar and the soap stuck to the screw no problem, but that does not occur with my candles - the flaky wax just falls off. hence my conundrum.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

A quick light rub on the bar and the soap stuck to the screw no problem...

Proof at last that you are a soft soaper

 

[^woody^]

Wears the soap?