PARAFFIN How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these paraffin tutorials to learn all about paraffin with WonderHowTo's collection of free how-to videos and articles, like Apply paraffin wax, Make mushroom clouds with wax, and Use and Maintain Kerosene Lamps.

You'll also find several great home & garden tutorials in the Home & Garden category.

How to apply paraffin wax

Apply paraffin wax

This video goes over the entire process of a paraffin bath - from set up to application, for stress relief and muscle relaxation.

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How to make mushroom clouds with wax

Make mushroom clouds with wax

This tutorial video will show you how to make huge, Hollywood-style, mushroom clouds of fire. These are huge explosions with wax, water, and ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by The Wonder Team | Comments 34
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How To Use and Maintain Kerosene Lamps

Use and Maintain Kerosene Lamps

Kerosene is also called "paraffin" in some countries. Kerosene lamps work best when clean and undamaged. For that remote cabin or power ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How to make homemade Chanukah menorah candles

Make homemade Chanukah menorah candles

Get ready to brighten up your Chanukah celebration with some homemade Menorah candles, like in this how-to video. You will need paraffin ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How to tune up a woodworking hand plane

Tune up a woodworking hand plane

Taking a break from building the Bombe, Tommy tunes his hand plane by taking it apart and sharpening it. He demonstrates the power of the ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How to glue in the wooden doubler for the bombe secretary

Glue in the wooden doubler for the bombe secretary

The doubler's been cut and shaped... now, with Al on pins and needles ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How To Make a Gel Candle

Make a Gel Candle

Gel wax isn't wax at all, but a form of mineral oil. It's easier to work with in many ways than traditional waxes. The clear gel allows you ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Use a Fiberglass Kit

Use a Fiberglass Kit

You have something to fiberglass but you dont know how? Here are some basic guidelines for using fiberglass and polyesther resin. Purchase a ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Make Pomade

Make Pomade

If you read how to be a greaser and you don't know how to make or get some pomade for your hair, here is a really easy recipe! Decide what ...more

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Written 4 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Build a Campfire

Build a Campfire

When you are out in the wilderness, it is a custom and tradition to build a campfire. The choice is up to you what kind you want, or if you ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Create a Mold for Candles

Create a Mold for Candles

Many common household items can be used for candle molds. This is a very inexpensive way to make candles. Save heavy cardboard type ...more

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Written 4 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Make Beer Candles

Make Beer Candles

Beer Candles are easy and fun to make. Add them to the top of your table at the next sports party or make them as take home gifts for your ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 1
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How To Prevent Your Fuel Oil for an Oil Furnance from Freezing

Prevent Your Fuel Oil for an Oil Furnance from Freezing

Fuel oil does not "freeze" but rather "gels" or thickens to a soft wax ...more

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How To Make Red Raspberry Jam

Make Red Raspberry Jam

Making delicious jam can be relatively simple if you prepare it with this streamlined method. Fruit is particularly amenable to canning ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Can Food

Can Food

Before refrigeration was common, people evened out the ebbs and flow of harvests by preserving excess for later use. One of the ways that ...more

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Written 3 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Make Jam

Make Jam

In today's world of all-night supermarkets and ready-made everything, it's easy to forget that jam didn't always come from the store ...more

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Written 4 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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4 Years in the Making: Insane Papercraft City

Tokyo art student, Wataru Itou, spent four long years crafting his meticulous paper city, entitled "A Castle On the Ocean".  The miniature papercraft city was constructed with ...

Jetman Flys Over Atlantic with DIY Wings - Plummets!

Yves Rossy, AKA Jetman, attempted to fly across the Atantic from Morocco to Spain yesterday. His homemade, jet powered wings "span 8 feet and are powered by four kerosene-fueled jet engines ...

Avoid Turkey-Frying-Fire Disaster this Thanksgiving

Thinking of deep frying a turkey this Thanksgiving? Careful. Or this might happen: Luckily, Alton Brown (of Food Network) offers a thorough step-by-step on how to fry that bird. Hackaday has also ...

Turbo Turkey - Cook the Damn Bird Above the Camshaft

So, I suppose we're going both redneck and Thanksgiving turkey twice today (Redneck Slingshot Chick + Extreme Thanksgiving Recipes). Something about home for the holidays inspires... and this is ...

Deeply Trusting Female Volunteers Bod to Redneck Science: First Human Slingshot

Well, maybe these folks aren't redneck. That is a pretty nice house, and that slingshot doesn't look too jery rigged. But the idea of a human slingshot is certainly redneck (and lotsa fun). Previously ...

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