ANOTHER waaayyy OT: Ear candles...

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bill Crommett in seneca

>Try a stainles steel hollow mandrel that can be warmed a little to soften the interior wax. If you need an address to send my commission check, email me.

Bill

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AndiWolfe

>Seems to me that if the dowel were metal you could heat that just a bit so that the wax/muslin would set up as the metal cooled, and you could slip the dowel out before the wax hardened into place. (No warranties, liabilities, or guarantees on random ideas floating about my head - user discretion advised)

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Fred in NC

>Poly rods ! (polyethylene)

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Barry Turner

>What the heck is an ear candle? How is it used?

Ditto- I had an image of candles made from earwax!

steve antonucci in NW NJ

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RevDoug

>In most craft supply stores, there is a release agent that they sell for just such applications. You can probably find it in the candle making section, or where the casting resins are. Give that a shot. Another random thought is to use WD-40, or some other slickery kind of stuff.

No insurance or band-aids supplied.

Turn 'em round,

RevDoug

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Jerry Whitaker

>Looks like the only "turning" you are going to have time do, is turning over in bed at night wondering how and why you got yourself into this deal. Maybe the trip to the bank will overshadow all other problems.

Barry, I read a lot...

BubbaBob

>...about ear candles and ear candling in the last two days, and all I can say is to do a Googls search on "ear candles". It's too weird and lengthy to describe here.

BubbaBob

Redneck hillbilly supplier to the wiccan world

Google is great or sick....

Stuart Johnson

>I did a quick google search and came up with this:

ear candling (coning)

Ear candling or coning is a method of cleaning the ears and the mind, which allegedly alleviates a host of physical, emotional and spiritual ailments. A hollow candle is stuck into the ear and lit, allegedly sucking out earwax and negative energy.

The article finished with a link to and I'm no making this up..... butt candling. I decided to skip the rest of the the search.

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Darryl Hansen

>Bubba use the oil that drips from your Poooolan :>))) Did you see the picture in the message header? It shows a chocolate cake . On the top are pastry things that were rolled on dowels. Maybe the cook has a way of rolling things on wood that will help .

Pam spray?

Barbara Gill, Remlik VA

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Stuart, I missed that...

BubbaBob

>...thank God. Makes ya wonder what THAT removes though...

BubbaBob

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George Van in WI

>Looks like you will be buying diesel; maybe take some of that paraffin and dip your turning tools in it, prevents rust for long storage. Only 24 hours in a day!

UHMW Poly Rods - source *LINK*

Fred in NC

>Nothing seems to stick to UHMW Poly. There is no glue that works with this material. Used for molds for all kinds of fabrication. Available in convenient 1/2" x 12" rods, all you need to do is taper the end. 84 cents each. No need to spend time and money on release agents.

The rod will probably need to be a couple inches longer than the candle to be able to handle it, and to put it into a cooling rack. Rack probably 5/8" holes in a 2x4.

Available from MSC:


UHMW Rods

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Sam Simpson

>Hi Y'all,

Bubba, if I where to consider this project as a factory production set up I would be using "Delrin" plastic forms. Each form would have a small hole running through, close to the tip. The forms would be ganged onto a manifold and a blast of air would release the finished cooled product.

Regards Sam Simpson.

DANGER - CAUTION

Fred in NC

>Melting wax is dangerous, it can catch on fire.

Safest way is with a double-boiler.

they just slipped off.

Rob Bourgeois, NW Mississippi

>The candies hardened and slipped off. No treatment to the wood at all.

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Matthew Fallon

>Oh man you just made me tear!

sure wouldnt wanna do an image-google on that!

i did do the ear thing once, i honestly felt great afterwards,guess i was really clogged up

theres some new-age type stores nearby that i sell my wood and bamboo flutes in,they carry these too(ear style!).might have to try your idea' out too! lemme know how it works for you'

laughing out LOUD!

Jennifer@Indy.USA

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Scott Greaves in Blackfoot Idaho

>Hi Bob,

The first thing I thought of was some kind of a release agent. But the people who use these things are very serious about the use of chemicals in their products. I just wouldn't use a release agent of any kind.

I think the best idea is to either use a form that can't stick, like the plastics, or the metal form that can be warmed up to release the candle. If I were going to make a lot of them I think I'd go with the metal forms.

I have used one of these ear candles a couple of times in the past. It was OK, but no big deal. From my reading on the subject, you can sell them for even more money by including some healing or calming herbs in with the wax, or scents so it smells nicer. I wonder how Chamomille would go over?

Is wax a by-product of your bio-diesel, too?

Scott.

Well, no...

BubbaBob

>...the only useful biodiesel byproducts are glycerine, which I use in my soaps sometimes, and 75% of the methanol used, which I can distill off of the glycerine and re-use in the next batch of biodiesel.

I do, however, have 12 honeybee hives, and the beeswax can be used for more expensive ear candles...

BubbaBob

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Barry Turner

>I read a lot, too, but I still don't know what ear candling or coning is. Sounds like a high colonic for the ear!

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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>What happens if... ah.... you have a bit of indigestion during the procedure?