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I have had my Johnson Paste Wax get soft and liquid like; same as your your "bad" can. It is called "melted". Store it somewhere cool and it will re-solidify.

I live in Arizona and my shop is an open garage with no AC. I'd go broke if I replaced my wax every time it got soft.

dusty wrote:I have had my Johnson Paste Wax get soft and liquid like; same as your your "bad" can. It is called "melted". Store it somewhere cool and it will re-solidify.

I live in Arizona and my shop is an open garage with an AC. I'd go broke if I replaced my wax every time it got soft.

My basement shop stays cool all summer (it's been in the mid to upper 90's A LOT outside this year). Since I moved the woodshop to the basement I have always kept my JPW and oil on a narrow ledge on a wall well away from the wood-burning furnace. I have now removed that wall and it is sitting on a shelf near the bench and both are near the furnace. I should find it a cooler home before winter. So far the shop has stayed a little too warm for comfortable working in much of the winter. I have one more air duct to run and I think I will be able to keep the shop cool enough in the winter. It doesn't stay "hot" in the winter but it will stay in the mid 70's and you can work up a sweat. I like it about 65 for working and that is about where it stays all summer. And the JPW won't melt.

I have found that I don't have to use as much JPW since I moved the shop to the basement. Out in the farm shop and later in the former store I was constantly waxing way tubes, quills etc. whether I was using something or not because of condensation from rather wildly swinging temperatures. Now it barely seems necessary. The AC keeps things dry all summer and the furnace keeps them dry all winter. The temps rarely ever vary more than 8 or 10 degrees at the most. The seldom heated farm shop on the other hand can vary by up to 110 degrees over the course of the year (from -20 up to about 90+) and is only truly dry when it stays below freezing. I had a chill and then broke out in a sweat just typing this...


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Stir it up first and then put in the frig.It should be ok after 24 hrs. Mine did that in the hot garage here in Florida.
Bill V

I bought a bucket last week which looked like the same chunky slop pictured at the start of this thread. Started wondering whether that was ok and found this article via internet search. While I thought for a moment about returning it to HD, I just went down to the garage and had another peek into the can. It is still that darker color, but it has firmed up to the texture of butter now and looks just like the new one pictured just above in the thread. It must be a temperature thing. When I bought it we had mid eighties temps outside and this morning it is 63 outside and likely 55 in my garage.

Wax melts at a very low temperature(especially carnuba). That is why shoe shine guys rapidly traverse a rag over the shoe to shine it.

For those less ancient, someone else explain what a shoe shine guy* is !

* "boy" is now non-PC!

JPG,

I think "shoe shine guy" is PC compared to the original term. "Shoe Shine Person" may be more PC.

I have had my JPW get a little "sweaty" at times in the summer but cooled down it is fine again. Never has it been as bad as that first picture. I have had it for a couple of decades. It is getting a little low so I will have to replace it one of these years.

" Shoe shine boy "is still fine . Saturday mornings "Under Dog"

Those Under Dog cartoons, unless there are newer ones, were made way back when we didn't know the term PC.