I queried Min Wax about their product a year or so ago. Their wax doesn't contain silicon but it does contain an anti slip agent of some kind and they said it would probably not be best used on surfaces, IE saw table top, where you want things slippery.
It does not contain silicon(e), but it does contain anti-slip ingredients like most other floor waxes. If you are using it as a finish on wood it should be fine. If using it as a rust preventitive it should be as good as Johnson's , but if you are using it to make a surface slick I don't think anti-slip is what you want ;)
Dave Hall
On 16 Dec 2004 08:36:17 -0800, "RampRat" calmly ranted:
some similar price, no shipping. See? Walmart DOES stock U.S. brands! (Several hundred of them, actually, but nobody bothers to notice.)
My understanding is that Canada requires the use of anti-slip ingredients in all floor waxes and Johnson's does not have them. Johnson's (and possibly a few others) were grandfathered from the regs in the US. It is my understanding that it is still against OSHA regs to use floor waxes without anti-slip ingredients in commercial applications subject to OSHA. I know that the school district I work for in Pennsylvania does not use Johnson's as a floor wax due to liability issues.
Dave Hall
Pro'ly not. Is Johnson's considered a "floor wax?" I seem to recall the word "floor" on the can somewhere, but it seems to do a spiffy keen job of making things slickery.
Me too, for 10% off Doug's right price. :)
Or for the people who want value added service, and they're willing to pay a little extra for the best possible care, I'll also do it for 20% more than Doug's right price. Take your pick.
I think a lot of this started when I noticed I couldn't get it at Wally World anymore, then some Kanukistani convinced me that SC Johnson had decided to discontinue the stuff. I went on a holy quest to find a new supply of my favorite wax, and posted the results. That's what some of the comments in this current thread have alluded to.
So it's all Silvan's fault again.
So you're the one I have to blame for the box with the lifetime supply of Johnson's wax sitting in my closet. I ordered it right after reading the thread on here over a year ago (maybe two Christmas's ago?) about how it would no longer be available. ;-)
No, not exactly. I never said it was being discontinued. I just went to some length to let people know where they could still get it while believing what someone else had warned me about.
How many surplus cans do you have? I'll buy some off of you as a favor, if you want. If you're not worried about it, I'll just go buy a can at Lowe's. :)
I'm not worried about it at all. Shipping would be way more than your time and gas to get it from Lowe's. Sometimes attempted humor just doesn't come across the computer screen as well as it should; that was just good-natured ribbing, not a complaint.
By this question, I can tell you were never in the military.
hmm... I use it mostly on the shopsmith, per their instructions, and have been doing that for 20+ years... wonder if "non-slip" wax (sounds like Military Intelligence) would still make the tubes slide well, o stick and jam??
wow.. must use it on your hair, too!! *g*
I bought 2 brands in 81, 1 can of each... down to about 1/4 of each now..lol
I have a bunch of chisels, lathe tools, cast iron machinery, hand planes, vises, anvils, sundry other steel or iron tools, all in an unheated shop. I've never bothered to mail order Boeshield or any of the other fancy alternatives. I just keep Johnson's on everything, and reapply as needed. For some stuff, maybe twice a year. For other stuff, maybe once a week. It's good on the soles of my planes and my saw table for making everything slide smoothly, as well as affording a measure of rust protection.
Then I also use it on everything I build. I used to use 0000 steel wool and wax over poly to kill the poly-ness, and then I saw the light and started using shellac. Now I use 0000 steel wool and wax over shellac to kill the shellac-ness. Shellac leaves a bit of a weird surface. The ol' wax and wool puts a perfect finishing touch on it, and affords it some miniscule measure of moisture and wear protection.
Just now, I even used it on all the furniture in my living room. It's commercial furniture, and I had never really cared enough to try that before, but the results sure were good. I think I will probably do that from now on, instead of using Pledge. Takes a bit of doing, but it looks fantastic.
It's also useful for driving tiny brass screws into hardwoods. It works better than beeswax. Yet another use, I wax up my trumpets from time to time. They both have worn spots in the lacquer, and the wax helps keep those spots from tarnishing and standing out.
So yeah, I go through a lot of Johnson's, and a lot of 00000 steel wool too. All without using it on my hair. I keep my hair cut at 5/8" and run the buzzy thing through it as soon as it's starting to look like I should reacquaint myself with a comb.
I'll take that as a yes then. :)
Gin SameOld asks:
It is good, but expensive. I use my own concoction for table tops. More carnauba than is in the commercial waxes. Harder to apply, but I use a cordless power buffer and it buffs out nicely. Three coats last me about a year.
Charlie Self "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston Churchill
Larry Jaques responds:
Amongst the 70% of Walmart stock that is made in China, to the tune of $18 billion dollars annually?
Charlie Self "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston Churchill
Well, I used MinWax paste wax on my Shopsmith before I found out the difference. I now use Johnson's. I can tell a substantial difference. Floor wax is to protect the floor, shine it up, etc. It is not a great idea, however, to make your floor slipperier than snot. Therefore quite a while back floor waxes began to add anti-slip ingredients. It was subsequently required under, I believe, an OSHA reg. Johnson's did not reformulate their namesake product.
Our Super WalMart has it.
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