March 24

Tech post #3

Honey comb candles are first made with beeswax that has had all the impurities taken out of it, and bleached. A worker then puts the beeswax into a gas kettle un til melted then 1/10 of an once  of powdered dye tints the beeswax the dye is then stirred into the beeswax so it is distributed evenly. A worker then opens a valve and the wax flows into a large through beneath a large drum. This drum is cooled by a system of chillers and the wax solidifies. A narrow aperture then squeeze’s the solid wax thinner  the layers are rolled onto a shaft. The layers are then put in na bath of warm water and soap. The could of beeswax are then loosened by hand. The wAx layers separate and warm water is immersed on the layers which softens the edges as a fitting machine makes the wax even thinner. The softened wax is firmed up agin by ice. Liquid soap is constantly added during this a calipers ids then used to gage the thickness of the wax, to make sure it’s 0.16 of a centimeter  the roll is then removed form the thinning machine spindle. The wax is then put n another spindle for a machine that pulls the wax through ice water tax is the put thorough embossing rollers to make the design then a bide sides the beeswax into sheets, To make the candles another worker cuts the sheets to the correct length and width the sheets are then rolled by hand with a cotton wick. Then the candles are made.

 

March 8

Tech post #2

In 1890 Johns Hopkins the chief of surgery at that hospital and for the nurses benefit they asked a rubber company to make protective gloves for them. The rubber companies for a mold use ceramic or aluminum hands as a mold for the gloves first they s clean the residue from the molds and they then scrub the molds with a scrubber the molds are then put in hot water and put on a rail to drip dry they then dip the molds into liquid rubber the molds are then put in a oven brushes then spray the molds with a color on the liquid rubber to make the gloves colorful the rubber is then taken off for natural rubber it can be taken off by a machine since it is much easier to take the natural rubber off the mold but for synthetic gloves they have to be taken off by hand. A worker then inflates and tests the gloves. All rubber gloves have different solutions based in their use. The gloves are then put in boxes, ending the process of making rubber gloves.