Try it. I find that it is especially good to use with itty bitty brass screws used to attach fancy hardware bits to boxes and whatnot. Without some wax, even with precisely sized pilot holes, it's very difficult to get a screw in tight enough to do the job without mangling the head.
I poke mine in a can of Johnson's paste wax. It works great, and it's easier to get the wax on than using gulf or beeswax.
For furniture? I don't THINK so...
David
George wrote:
That would have worked in 1958 when I used Brylcream. I just tried it and all I got was scrapes on my head.
A little dab will do you.
I would suspect it makes them nearly impossible to remove also. And then there is that water that in the glue.
Geez Grandpa that was starting to sound like a homeless persons supper recipe.
I thought that was the slogan for KY?
The wax provides lubrication to help prevent the screw from breaking. Candle wax works, beeswax is better.
Are you sure that either is correct? I believe that hygroscopic is correct, but the only definition I could find for hydroscopic has it as the adjective form of hydroscope - a device used to see beneath the water.
R, Tom Q.
I think now that you were speaking tongue-in-cheek, since hydrophilic means "having an affinity for water".
I still think that Charles I had it right with "hygroscopic", though.
R, Tom Q.
Are toilet bowl rings still made of beeswax? The ones at my local hardware store store don't say what type of wax they're made from. I'm guessing that the manufacturers have found something cheaper than beeswax to use.
R, Tom Q.
I dunno, but I've found canning wax to work well at a low price.
Barry
KY? We're talking about scr . . . . . . Yeah, that'd work
Actually, it was Brill Cream, AKA: "greasy kids stuff."
Absolutely mandatory if you wore your hair in a DA.
(Ducks Ass) for you youngsters.
Lew
Actually it was "Brylcreem", IIRC.
AKA a "Hollywood" ... and "pomade" was the glue of choice around here for the front of the flat top, so it would stand up ... will never forget the smell of either.
"Butch Wax"! ... that was the name of the pomade.
Nope. KY's water based.
haven't heard of any codes in my area, but it really doesn't apply to waxing screws, does it??
sounds like you might have the same haircut that I do.. my wife calls it a "nohawk"... lmao
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