Waxes for outdoor bronzes

Sandra Lougheed <slough<-a t->planeteer< . >com> writes

>The following waxes have come to my attention as being a useful
>component of a wax recipe for outdoor bronzes: Polywax 2000 and
>Victory Wax
>...
>I am also interested
>in equivalent waxes that could be substituted  and suppliers for the
>above.

In "Conservation of a Monumental Outdoor Bronze Sculpture:  Theodore
Roosevelt by Paul Manship" [JAIC 19(1980):24-33], Nicholas Veloz
and I used a wax paste provided us by Steve Tatti.  The composition
was:

    Bareco 2000 (Polyethylene wax) 15%,
    Bareco Vicotyr White (microcrystalline wax) 82%,
    Cosmolloid 80H (hard microcrystalline wax) 3%, dissolved in
    mineral spirits to a soft, creamy consistency.

Bareco Waxes are the products of

    Bareco Division
    Petrolite Corporation
    6910 East 14th Street
    P.O. Drawer K
    Tulsa, OK 74115
    USA.

Cosmolloid is obtainable at TALAS in New York City. This address
dates from 1980, so maybe they have moved.

For outdoor sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, we are using
Tre-wax, a paste wax containing carnauba, which has a venerable
history of use at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina.  The Trewax
Company, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 is the manufacturer.

Lynda Zycherman
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY

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