B&BGaryC
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How come I take candle wax out with an iron and solvents (Not at the same time) and an iron will set crayola wax?
B&BGaryC said:How come I take candle wax out with an iron and solvents (Not at the same time) and an iron will set crayola wax?
harryhides said:B&BGaryC said:How come I take candle wax out with an iron and solvents (Not at the same time) and an iron will set crayola wax?
Candle wax is not the same as crayon "wax".
Besides if you keep using an iron to remove colored wax stains you WILL permanently set the color on one - it's only a matter of time. That is why I never use an iron on wax unless it has no color.
Just try it Gary, get some scraps of carpet and some crayon and do you own testing.
steve frasier said:I have a light red, really faint in color, customer set it, on a light beige cut pile nylon
what would be the first step in color
I can get the red to a brown but I have no clue on how to get the brown to a more suitable beige color or a closer match, the stain looks a lot like a picture in one of Tony's other posts
I played around with the crayons on her carpet but rinsed it out because I wasn't happy with the match
any help is appreciated, thanks
B&BGaryC said:What should I use to get out wax? I figured dumping solvent on it and ripping out carpet fibers was the hack way... So I started using an iron and only some very small amounts of solvent to finish it up. Got a big wax job tomorrow, a whole candle got knocked off a candle warmer onto a olefin carpet... Cheep stuff, I am afraid of melting or delaminiting.