ok, as promised,, here's the recipe for making homemade wicks. I havnt tried it yet,, I may during the cold/boring winter months. If anybody getts adventurous, let us know how it works.

soak heavy cotton yarn for 12 hours in a solution of:

1 TB salt

2 TB boric acid

in one cup of water. After yarn is dry , braid to form wick.

A cheap source for boric acid I found, at the dollar store was "roach powder",,I checked the ingredients,, only one listed is, Boric Acid

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), October 30, 2002

Answers

Thanks, Stan! I've always wanted to do this - I'll try it soon. My daughter has a gift store, burns a lot of candles of all sizes and scents, and gives the burned-out candles to me - I melt the wax down and put them in containers, and have good-as-new candles to burn. This will help with wicks - I always have problems finding good wicks for large containers.

-- Bonnie (51940@aeroinc.net), October 31, 2002.

for wicks, check with bee keeping supply companies, and see what they go for there. Most will sell by the foot. Or another place, is ebay, I check there, to see if anyone is selling wicking for a cheap price.

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), October 31, 2002.