[Dick Allen]

No Ben, you didn’t imagine it. I’ve read it myself before (most likely on the disinformation highway ) I've used aluminum to melt beeswax with no problems.

Here’s what Cogshall & Morse write in their book “Beeswax’:

“Bison, Vainsell and Dye heated beeswax...............They found the wax was discolored by iron, brass, zinc and copper; the discoloration was greatest with iron, followed by the others, decreasingly, in the order listed. There was no appreciable discoloration when beeswax was heated in the presence of aluminum, nickel, platinum, pure tin, and stanless steel.”

As far as the alzheimer’s disease claim about aluminum, it isn’t all that difficult to find just about anything on the internet nowadays to back up any belief you happen to have. Yes, there has been speculation and controversy about aluminum and alzheimer’s for many years. Here’s another opinion:

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=99

But contracting alzheimer's disease by melting beeswax?!?!

 

[Dick Allen]

Oh Great!! And now that's on the internet, too! So, now it has to be true.....

 

[Dick Allen]

OK folks, I'm not going to get into a long-winded argument with any of you guys over aluminum and Alzheimer's disease. The original query was whether aluminum was ok for melting beeswax. Apparantly it is according to what I've read and seen from personal experience. As I mentined before there is indeed (and has been for some time) controversy over whether it is responsible or not for Alzheimer's disease. I posted a link earlier that I thought offered a level-headed and balanced assessment on the subject. Google or any other search engine will give you more such links. Those search engines will also give anyone wanting to claim that aluminum is directly responsible for Alzheimer's links saying that aluminum does actually cause Alzheimer's disease. Believe what you want. I don't know if it does or not.