celem
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There are two parts to this story - the first is tied to the second.
Soft lead is just about impossible to purchase where I live. Consequentially, I have been buying my soft lead through eBay. I've been buying from a couple of people, one going by "thefatguy123". They exploit the Post Office's Flat Rate shipping by putting ten pounds of lead into a small Flat Rate box. I average paying about $2.25 per pound. Some auctions a little less, some a little more.
When I want beeswax I go to a nearby beekeeper. He sells what he calls "rendered wax" for $4.21 (no tax) per pound. Basically he melts it it a solar oven and runs it through a filter for three cycles. This filters out any debris, yielding nice clean yellow wax. Anyway, this not what this post is about. I recently had a chat with postman and discovered that he is a beekeeper - with 83 hives! He says that he has been accumulating his wax because he didn't know of a reliable conduit to get rid of it.
I reminded the postman about the heavy boxes that he sometimes delivers and told him what eBay lead sellers were doing and I suggested that he do the same thing with his beeswax. He liked the idea and said that he was going to construct a mold that would create wax blocks that exactly fit inside a Medium Flat Rate box and offer them on eBay. I told him to make sure that he marked the auction as good for muzzleloaders as well as the other uses, i.e., candles, etc.
He hasn't yet mentioned that he has posted any sales on eBay but keep an eye out. If he so advises me I'll submit a post here.
Soft lead is just about impossible to purchase where I live. Consequentially, I have been buying my soft lead through eBay. I've been buying from a couple of people, one going by "thefatguy123". They exploit the Post Office's Flat Rate shipping by putting ten pounds of lead into a small Flat Rate box. I average paying about $2.25 per pound. Some auctions a little less, some a little more.
When I want beeswax I go to a nearby beekeeper. He sells what he calls "rendered wax" for $4.21 (no tax) per pound. Basically he melts it it a solar oven and runs it through a filter for three cycles. This filters out any debris, yielding nice clean yellow wax. Anyway, this not what this post is about. I recently had a chat with postman and discovered that he is a beekeeper - with 83 hives! He says that he has been accumulating his wax because he didn't know of a reliable conduit to get rid of it.
I reminded the postman about the heavy boxes that he sometimes delivers and told him what eBay lead sellers were doing and I suggested that he do the same thing with his beeswax. He liked the idea and said that he was going to construct a mold that would create wax blocks that exactly fit inside a Medium Flat Rate box and offer them on eBay. I told him to make sure that he marked the auction as good for muzzleloaders as well as the other uses, i.e., candles, etc.
He hasn't yet mentioned that he has posted any sales on eBay but keep an eye out. If he so advises me I'll submit a post here.
