Yankee Wax problems

[petercoulson]

This is for your information and to hopefully stop some calls we are getting lately.

 

I dont know what has happened to yankee wax lately but it is different and causing problems with brushes on machines, I've also been told it doesnt melt the way it used to either. What we have found over the last couple of months is that customers have been ringing saying there is something wrong with their brushes, when they apply wax it is balling up and sticking to the hairs in big lumps. This has been found to be a problem with the wax rather than the brushes and more and more repairers are experiencing this now.

 

As i dont know anything about yankee wax perhaps someone here can shed more light and find out what has happened?

[Theone]

hi

yes i have noticed it

think they must have change ingredients or formula

it smells different

and does not melt aswell on metal heels looks more watery when its melting on

probably something to do with health and saftey been told to take out a certaint chemical

out so it has changed it properties just an idea

[kobblers]

yeah, it defo smells different, finishes odd too

 

Rick.

[Gray]

I've never really liked the stuff anyway, i prefer the old ink, iron, pad and polish with a good hard wax. It just gums up your pads and brushes

[Lee]

thanks for the warning, Peter.

 

Lee

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

Same problem happened over 12 years ago( could be up to 20), another company (I think it was F.Ball) made an alternative to satisfy all the users of Yankee Wax that were complaing in masses. Yankee wax was soon altered back to something like the original formula.(I was involved in the testing of the Wax at that time).

Is there not an alternative nowadays?

[Gray]

The other one i recall was Kulorub, I always prefered astral padwax and stickwax

[x minit uk]

Spoke to the colledge rep today about this and there has been a bad batch, he has ordered me a new box free of charge and the yankee wax suppliers will give him a credit if he sends the dodgy stuff back. So speak to your reps.

[Gray]

Typical of Colledges, ever obliging, great firm!

[Dean]

(I was involved in the testing of the Wax at that time)

 

So was I.

[Gray]

And?

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

(I was involved in the testing of the Wax at that time)

 

So was I.

 

As it was about 20 years ago I thought that you would not have been advanced enough in Wax components to make a valid contribution, but I stand corrected if you are older than at 1st thought.

Perhaps a child of advanced years!