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Re: Wax removal?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:12:17 GMT
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As an apprentice candlemaker (aka Wax On Everything Woman), I'd have to strongly
agree with the freezer folks, with one minor addition. While still cold, if it
looks like you're going to have a dye mark problem, try some baby oil on a kleenex
directly on the dye mark. Oil picks up wax soluble dye quite well... if it's on
something that can handle oil (I don't recommend this technique on the latex paint
in your house!)
The problem with heat is that most candle waxes -- other than the 100% paraffin
used in tea lights -- is that the lowest temperature that it'll melt at is around
125 - 150 F. Sounds like that's too high for Legos!
Sorry for the lecture, but as I said, I get wax on everything, so I've had to
figure this out!
Beth Reiten
Lorbaat wrote:
> This is almost an embarassing question.
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> I left a Stone Tower Bridge beneath a hanging lantern with a candle in it (ok,
> my bedroom decoration is... eclectic) and wax dripped all over it. I had hoped
> that it would pry right off, but it doesn't seem to want to. So... does anyone
> have any ideas as to how to remove it? I thought about introducing a low heat
> to melt the wax so it can wipe off, but I'm not sure what the heat tolerance of
> Lego really is.
>
> If it makes a difference, the flats that make up the ramp behind the Tower and
> one of the lanterns is what got dripped on.
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> eric
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| This is almost an embarassing question. I left a Stone Tower Bridge beneath a hanging lantern with a candle in it (ok, my bedroom decoration is... eclectic) and wax dripped all over it. I had hoped that it would pry right off, but it doesn't seem to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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