Carnuba and dust collectors

[Ted Simmons]

James,
   I have just returned from the North Carolina PTG Conference and my wife
and I visited many antique shops on the way up and back.  One of the shops
sold a product called "Briwax" which is a mixture of carnauba and beeswax
mixed with toluene as a carrying agent.  If it's a carnauba wax product you
were trying to mix, "Briwax" might be what you're looking for.  The
manufacturer can be reached at 1-800-327-4929.  If you have a FAX machine I
can fax you their brochure.

Ted Simmons
Merritt Island, FL

>    Yesterday I bought a pound of carnuba wax flakes/crystals/powder.
>($16.95)  I tried melting it in a baby food jar in my electric glue pot.
>Didn't work.  I then took it upstairs and put the jar in a pan and boiled
>water with the jar sitting in it.  It melted.  I let it cool and it
>solidified again and came out just as hard as it was before except it was
>now a solid mass.  I then took the melted carnuba and melted my regular wax
>and mixed the two.  Does any one have experience with the proper way to mix
>this carnuba to where it is useable?  I suspect that the carnuba did not mix
>with my regular wax and when I get to it in the can it will be clunks of
>hard mass?  The people at the woodstore didn't know any more than I do.
>
>Is anyone using the bag type dust collectors in their shop?  I looked at the
>Jet 1 hp unit and the Delta 1.5 HP unit.  Has anyone tried picking up
>shaving from a working lathe?  Are you using a second stage (trash can) to
>collect the heavier stuff before it goes into the bag?  Any opinions?
>Thanks
>
>    I thought this would make a good Christmas present for my wife, don't
>you think? :>)
>
>James Grebe
>R.P.T. of the P.T.G
>pianoman@inlink.com
>Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in
>St. Louis, MO