[Jewelry making - Article 00476] - Re: [Orchid] Effective way to clean my waxes?

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    I have a couple of thoughts for you that will help you cleanup your
    waxes. With the Waxcutter milling machine we do all of our cutting
    wet. We pile up the wax debris around the cutter and saturate it with
    soapy water, it helps a lot. Putting the wax into an ultrasonic
    cleaner will remove a lot of wax debris but usually not all of it.
    Our final trick, aside from picking away with a sharp toothpick is
    using a spot cleaning gun from from the dry cleaning industry. They
    are also used in silk screening. The guns put out a very narrow
    stream of water at 3,000 psi and with care will do a great job of
    cleaning up waxes. The guns also do a good job of cleaning investment
    off of castings. A good way to polish the tool marks off of a
    machined wax is with a piece of pantyhose wrapped around a Q-tip.
    Small pieces of hard felt are also useful when polishing wax. 

John
John Winters
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