where can i buy paraphin?

 

Well, it depends on what kind of "paraffin" you need. If you're going to be preserving some vegetables in Ball jars, you want paraffin wax, usually sold under the "Gulfwax" name in most grocery stores.

If, on the other hand, you're reading a British service manual that recommends "paraffin" for cleaning some parts or something like that, they're talking about "kerosene".

Oh, and if the service manual tells you to inspect your gas tank with a "torch", they're talking about a flashlight!

 

 

This is why I read these forums. Everyone is so funny.

 

Yeah, i dont want to wake up one morning and see on the news that some guy thought it would be a good idea to look around his gas tank with an open flame and then blew himself up.

 

Wow! Thanks for the heads-up.....

 

There's actually a funny story about why I know that "paraffin" = "kerosene". Many years ago, one of my service manuals recommended using "paraffin" to clean a motorcycle chain. I only knew about solid wax paraffin, so I heated some up on the stove to melt it, and soaked the chain in it for a while.

The hot wax actually did a fairly good job of cleaning the chain, but you can imagine what a stiff mess it was when I took the chain out of the melted wax and it cooled...

 

 

I can actually say I thought of doing this same thing to my XR650 chain recently based on the same logic.

Pablo

 

there is a petrolium based parafin wax used for cleaning bearings . maybe it's the same wax you mentioned .?