Wax, wax, wax them screws!

[BigSteve22]

Here's my 2 cents: Tap-Ease.

I use it all the time on wood screws. I'm still using a stick that was in my Dad's tool box when he passed, 25 years ago. Don't think I've used an inch of it in all that time. Shouldn't cost more than $3 or so. (But you could buy it from StewMac for $6.85 plus shipping!)  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Cagey]

It's just beeswax. Works great. I've got the same thing going with a tube my brother gave me probably 10 years ago that at current consumption rates will probably last me another 143 years, and I use it a lot.

 

[rgand]

For years I've used bar soap on wood screws but I always have bees wax on hand for waxing thread for leather working so I tried that when I built my JM recently. Both work equally well. Can't say I have a preference.

 

[Cagey]

I'm not sure it makes any difference, but I've always preferred beeswax because it's essentially inert and doesn't have any solvents, surfactants, dyes, or anything else that might deteriorate the wood. Candles, crayons, soap, etc. all work, but I always wonder what the hole in the wood is going to be like a few years down the road. Probably just fine, but why tempt fate?

 

[aarontunes]

I've just been working my way through one of these for the last million years.

 

[rgand]

Your grandkids will probably inherit that some day.

 

[Cagey]

Those were originally made of beeswax, until toilets got really popular and there just weren't and never would be enough bees making wax. Nowadays they're made out of good ol' bubblin' crude.

 

[aarontunes]

Those were originally made of beeswax, until toilets got really popular and there just weren't and never would be enough bees making wax. Nowadays they're made out of good ol' bubblin' crude.

Black gold.


Texas tea....

 

[BigSteve22]

Those were originally made of beeswax, until toilets got really popular and there just weren't and never would be enough bees making wax. Nowadays they're made out of good ol' bubblin' crude.

Black gold.


Texas tea....

(Like the sign on the bowl says):
"Ya'll come back now, hear?  :toothy12:

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

I've just been working my way through one of these for the last million years.

This is one instance where you really want to buy new rather than used.  Unless you're looking to replicate the famous Brown Sound...

 

[dmraco]

This is one instance where you really want to buy new rather than used.  Unless you're looking to replicate the famous Brown Sound...

someone always takes it too far..... :laughing3: :laughing11:

 

[Sovereign_13]

So when you wax the screw, how do you do it?  Do you just put it on the tip of the screw?  Dab a bit in the pilot hole?  Roll that screw in the wax like corn on the cob in a pad of butter?

(Looking very hard at burnished Roasted Maple for my first neck - Bass6 model, coming to a build thread near you in ~6-8 months!)

 

[mayfly]

I just kinda drag the threads through the wax

 

[rgand]

I just kinda drag the threads through the wax

Same here. If you do the tip on one side back about 1/4 - 1/3 the distance of the threads you'll have plenty.

 

[BigSteve22]

I just kinda drag the threads through the wax

Like he said, a quick drag is all it takes.  :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

I took a quick drag once. Once! But, I didn't inhale.

 

[Logrinn]

I took a quick drag once. Once! But, I didn't inhale.

:toothy12: :toothy12: :toothy12:

Now that I've stopped laughing ... I also drag the threads along the wax (or candle ... or soap ... or drop a drop of liquid soap on the screw ...)

 

[rgand]

:laughing7: :laughing7: :laughing7: , Kevin.

 

[ghotiphry]

Weed again?  Almost getting to be an obsession.  :cool01: