Some time ago, I bought a small tin of Waxilt (a nice product if a bit dear,) that frankly I forgotten I had on hand. I found it during a recent clean up and it’s hardened into cakes.
Thoughts about how to soften it back up? Thinking just warm it up in my double boiler I use for hide glue? Don’t want to ruin the product by heating it up. Perhaps that’s no harm?
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Never heard of it and the robot overlord hasn't either. If the can lists the solvent in the product then that's the way to go.
It's probably toast. The liquid form of waxilit is widely used in the moulding industry as a bed lubricant.
Martin USA in Charlotte used to carry the tins like you have but I suspect it is no longer available. But you could give them a call.
I think it's a machine lubricant like for industrial molding machines etc. that run large volumes of wood through them. Industrial version of rubbing Johnson wax on your table saw but not with a rag- those machines have automatic lubrication ...so I guess it's a liquid -wax and solvents? What would keep wax in suspension and also not taint the wood? A acetone? Japan dryer?Spray the bed of the machine and the solvent evaporates quickly leaving a thin wax film ? Take a bit and try acetone-- see what happens.
Thanks for the input, all. I'll take a closer look at the tin. Worst case, it's toast.
The only woodworking related purpose I used Waxilit for was to seal areas adjacent to glue joints to prevent glue squeeze-out from soaking into the wood. (This was a tip from Michael Fortune in an article for FWW where he talked about ways to prevent glue from sealing the wood for stain.)For those items I stained, it worked fairly well. However, in the end, it did dry out in the can because I didn't use it that often. I don't believe that heating it would work, at least not if the intended use was what I used it for.