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Dopping and Cabbing Rocks
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<blockquote data-quote="Dihusky" data-source="post: 519789" data-attributes="member: 10304"><p>Red wax is a general purpose wax so may work, slightly higher melting temp than green cabbing wax, not sure where we bought our last lot of green wax, but Aussie Sapphires in Glen Innes stocks green, brown, red and black wax, online shop.</p><p></p><p>You don't want screws in your dops, pushes the stone too far away from the dop and more likely to fracture the wax bond. Simply build a good coating of wax on the end of the dop, rolling it on stone slab or steel plate to get the bubbles out and consolidate the wax mass, then flatten the end before attaching it to the warmed stone, of the stone is cool the wax will cool to fast and the bond will break. Then work the wax into a flare from the dop to the back of the stone.</p><p></p><p>With green wax, once you finished and want to remove the stone, 30 mins in the freezer and the stone will virtually fall off, don't know if this will happen with the red stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dihusky, post: 519789, member: 10304"] Red wax is a general purpose wax so may work, slightly higher melting temp than green cabbing wax, not sure where we bought our last lot of green wax, but Aussie Sapphires in Glen Innes stocks green, brown, red and black wax, online shop. You don't want screws in your dops, pushes the stone too far away from the dop and more likely to fracture the wax bond. Simply build a good coating of wax on the end of the dop, rolling it on stone slab or steel plate to get the bubbles out and consolidate the wax mass, then flatten the end before attaching it to the warmed stone, of the stone is cool the wax will cool to fast and the bond will break. Then work the wax into a flare from the dop to the back of the stone. With green wax, once you finished and want to remove the stone, 30 mins in the freezer and the stone will virtually fall off, don't know if this will happen with the red stuff. [/QUOTE]
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