[TheForge] Hammering Wax

[Bruce Freeman]

Andy's pathetic whining and moaning about only working with wax (for
castings), coupled with the suggestion someone mentioning hammering
clay, prompted this thought:
 
I've tried hammering plasticine clay and was really not much taken with
it.  It may have its uses, but it does NOT work like iron.  Plasticine
clay is dry clay and some sort of oil.  The clay is just a filer.  Why
use it at all?
 
How about hammering wax.  Pure, crystalline wax would hammer like cast
iron.  No good.  But a mixture of waxes might hammer just like iron. 
I'm thinking maybe paraffin and beeswax, with maybe a little oil or
petroleum jelly dissolved into the mix.  The mixture of two very
different waxes would tend to preclude crystallization, and the oil
would soften the mix. 
 
It may be that those two waxes would be a bad choice, and that two
natural waxes or two petroleum waxes would be needed.  No problem. 
(Paraffin wax + petroleum jelly, in correct proportion = VasPar, which
might be close to what'd needed here.)
 
Anyone ever try anything like this?
 
Bruce
NJ
 
 
 


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