[TheForge] Finishes for food contact items

[Bruce Freeman]

The smoke may be the key here.  Is this smoke as in the sense of
vegetable oil "smoking" in a frying pan, or smoke in the sense of
incomplete combustion of a fuel?  If the former, the "smoke" is beeswax
fumes.  I'd be surprised if that would result in a drying effect of
beeswax, but I've been wrong before.  (At least once, I'm sure. :^) More
likely this would simply spread the beeswax out over all cracks and
crevases in the scale on the surface.

However, if the smoke represents incomplete combustion, then you're
pyrolyzing the beeswax.  All bets are off when pyrolysis occurs.  

Either way, if this finish works for bathroom hardware, great.  I'll
have to try that.  But I'd be reluctant to use a pyrolyzed beeswax
finish on eating utensils.

Bruce
NJ

>>> TristerK at aol.com 10/12/2006 1:10 PM >>>
 
In a message dated 10/12/2006 12:50:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com writes:

Lacking  such unsaturation, it would seem to me that beeswax would 
not
"dry".
Drying, in this sense of the word, is the conversion of an  oil to a
polymer.  


Yeah, but it does - apply at black heat so that it smokes a little, I
used  
this on towel hooks in my often damp bathroom - hang white towels on'em
and  
they still look like new three years later.
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