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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 806083, member: 360&quot;]What&#039;s inside the pan is traditional sealing wax. I can tell that already just by how it feels. </p><p><br /></p><p>Candle-wax melts soft. And it&#039;s very &#039;soft&#039; and waxy to the touch. </p><p><br /></p><p>SEALING-wax - traditional sealing-wax, that is - is VERY hard. It&#039;s like tapping plastic. If you run your fingernail down a candlestick - the wax comes away in your nails. If you do that with a stick of sealing wax - nothing. That&#039;s because when sealing wax dries, traditionally, it dries ROCK HARD. That&#039;s the whole POINT. That way, the wax SHATTERS and CRACKS the moment any stress is applied to it. That&#039;s because the whole point of sealing wax is to act as a tampering device. If ANY attempt to open the parcel or letter or document is made - the wax immediately breaks and shatters. It would be obvious at once that a document had been opened before it had reached its intended recipient, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, the quality that makes sealing wax ideal for its purpose (being brittle so that it can&#039;t be re-sealed, preventing forgery) also makes it hard to melt. I can well imagine that if you tried to melt this much wax using matches, you&#039;d go through a box a day, easily - hence the stove. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, these days you can buy sealing wax which has a different consistency - it&#039;s softer (more like candle-wax) but not as weak, so that it still holds documents shut. What&#039;s in the pan is not this stuff. It&#039;s just too hard and chunky.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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