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cooking pitch
Pat B:
If you're hunting, use what you are comfortable with and confident with! ;) BUT, the more you play with pitch glue the more you will appreciate its simplicity and effectiveness. It has worked very well for millennium.
Sleep Junkie:
Ah okay, I got ya now. This time around I will have the ratio right. I did not know that you could use wax. I have a whole brick of it here at the house. It's called Gulf canning wax. It's more than enough for all the raw sap I have stored. I would much rather use that instead of grease anyway. See, when I was mixing up my pitch, I had the ingredients set out before hand. The charcoal was in a paper cup and the bacon grease was on some wax paper. Well, when I had my back turned, the dog got into the first batch of grease. I shoulda known better to put it on the floor when she was around, but I didn't think she would go near the Coleman. It was still within the first few minutes when you have to have the flames turned way up to help preheat the rest of the fuel in the tank. Normally she is afraid to get within two feet of flames, but the bacon smell must have been too much. I swear, sometimes she acts as if no one feeds her! Thankfully she only ate about a tablespoons worth because I caught her in the middle of it and thankfully, she didn't get sick. LOL I will just have to chalk this up to another lesson learned. Thanks guys!
paulc:
So I need to be careful about overcooking the pitch...? So no rolling boil...? Just get it hot enough to melt the pitch is what you want to do...And add some ash if I want to? TIA
mullet:
I glue my stone points on with TB3 and then smear pitch on them to fake everybody out. ;D
wolfsire:
--- Quote from: paulc on July 23, 2009, 09:37:38 am ---So I need to be careful about overcooking the pitch...? So no rolling boil...? Just get it hot enough to melt the pitch is what you want to do...And add some ash if I want to? TIA
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I know people use ash, though I do not know anything else about it. But, yes, you want to be careful about overcooking pitch. If it boils too long it will turn grainy and lose its adhesiveness. A little boiling wont do that, but then there is no need to boil at all. Most of cooking is done on a coffee warmer, which probably only gets to 140F.
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