Canteen Waxing Revisited.

[Vuhginyuh]

I recently made a very small, unscientific observation that could have some merit here.

I few days ago I was performing the routine maintenance on my Sam Doolin made Gardner cherry wood canteen. Even though I have always put a couple of drops of chlorine bleach in the water stored in the canteen*, the cypress stopper had molded and turned black underneath the light coat of beeswax that Sam applied.

Out of curiosity I stuck a flexible fiber optic scope and a bore light in to look around. The inside of canteen has no wax coating and absolutely no discoloration or fungus. The only mold is on the wax covered stopper.

You can interpret this anyway you see fit but I take this as another fine reason not to line a canteen.

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*As per Sam's instructions

[DougCooper]

Re: Canteen Waxing Revisited.

Waxing is old school - laser is new school :D

Seriously, I have never lined a wooden canteen and never had a problem with mold, etc, either. Ditto on tin canteens.

[Charles Heath]

Re: Canteen Waxing Revisited.

You can interpret this anyway you see fit but I take this as another fine reason not to line a canteen.

Garrison,

We missed a huge opportunity to post a *research* article sometime this past Sunday on the subject of "Waxing the Stainless Steel Canteen."

Huge. ;)

P.S. I wonder if Weathering Steel guardrails drive some folks nuts.

[Skip Arensmann]

Re: Canteen Waxing Revisited.

Garrison,

P.S. I wonder if Weathering Steel guardrails drive some folks nuts.

Only when trying to get the thing on the stove....to heat evenly to get the beeswax to flow into a nice thin coat....

Regards