OT- removing color from candle wax

[Magicniner]

Use the wax you can get for free and ignore the colour.
Buy a few pounds of Titanium Dioxide and make Bright White Wax with a few pounds of new wax.
Paint the outsides of your hives with a hot application of the Bright White Wax, I doubt the residents will worry about the interior decor ;-)

[JoeLee]

I'm a beekeeper and I made a large vat that I use to boil the bee hives in. This removes the moisture and, upon removing the boxes from the wax, there is a vacuum created from the lost moisture and the liquid wax (which is a mixture of beeswax, paraffin, discarded candles of unknown makeup and tree resin) gets sucked into the wood. This preserves the wood for decades with no additional treatments..
The vat takes a lot of wax,much more wax than I have been able to collect from my own bees
For this reason I scrounge wax whenever I can. I was given about 20 pounds of colored wax that I'd like to put to use. The problem with colored wax is that it melts into an almost black color and stains the wood an ugly dark color. The asthetics of the dark color isn't enough for me to dismiss using it BUT the dark color absorbs a lot more sun and is noticeable hotter for the bees in the summer heat. Instead of tending to the hive the bees have to spend a lot of time and energy fanning the hive cool.
Wax is expensive. Even Walmart (I don't shop at Walmart regardless of prices) price for paraffin is over $5.00 a pound last check I did.
I do my beekeeping to benefit a cancer foundation so every cent I save is more for The Chordoma Foundation. A couple of hundred pounds of wax would cost at least $1000.00 if purchased new. Waiting for free wax is absolutely worth the time.
Thanks

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Now I understand why you want to remove the coloring.

JL.............

[challenger]

Use the wax you can get for free and ignore the colour.
Buy a few pounds of Titanium Dioxide and make Bright White Wax with a few pounds of new wax.
Paint the outsides of your hives with a hot application of the Bright White Wax, I doubt the residents will worry about the interior decor ;-)

The Brite white wax will melt in the heat. The hives will be be a complete mess. I've had boxes that I dipped where I didn't let them stew long, or hot enough and they sweat wax because it's left on the wood surface and not absorbed. These I had to redip when I did another batch. Live/learn.

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[Magicniner]

Buying new wax is your only solution then.