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I've been collecting beeswax chunks from my beekeeper friend and finally got around to rendering them. It made up seventy of those little mini-muffin ingots.
Seedtick and qajaq59 have it right - fluxing lead and lubing cast bullets.
Afy, I used two pans in a double boiler arrangement to melt down the chunks, then strained the glop out of the wax by pouring the melt through pantyhose into a third pan.
The third pan replaced the original melt pan in the double boiler to keep the strained wax liquid while I ladled the wax into the muffin pans.
When i was first introduced to boolit casting in 1956, the gentleman used 50/50 beeswax and beef tallow for his bullet lube. He said he had to use beef tallow because hi grandfather had helped shoot out all the buffalo and he couldn't get buffalo tallow anymore and then they went and put bears on a season and a limit so he couldn't find enough bear grease so it had come down to a sorry state of affairs and he was reduced to beef tallow and even lard sometimes.
Heat it and put in on your boots and other leatherstuff. There are commercially available products (I don't recall names) that are pure beeswax and some blended with solvents and other oils (like Mink oil). I put it on my GI boots a bunch of years ago; used my wife's hair dryer to heat up the boot, then rubbed it in. Softened and pretty much water-proofed them (it doesn't affect Gore-Tex either). I would use it again if I wore boots all the time. One caveat: go easy on any concoctions that contain Mink Oil. It does the same thing but your boots (and feet) smell like a mink, well-known as a skunk's first cousin. Your wife will REALLY not like that...
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