I hadn't been able to play with it because I didn't have the kind of light bulb it needed, but now I do :) Here's how it went:
First you have to break up the crayons into little pieces so they fit in the melting tray, then put the tray on top of the light bulb. It came with some new crayons, but in the future I'll probably just use the bits and pieces at the bottom of my box of crayons.
Then you're supposed to just turn the timer all the way to the right to turn on the light and it'll let you know when it's time to pour the crayons into the mold. Yeah, this did not go according to plan. I don't know if it's a product defect or if I'm just special, but the dial was EXTREMELY hard to move. Eventually I had to have Luis do it with a grippy thing we use to open jars.
From here, it's supposed to take about 10 minutes to melt the crayons so I went to cook dinner in the meantime. About five minutes into cutting potatoes, I noticed the dial had stopped moving. Since I was already annoyed with the timer situation, I just kept an eye on the crayons until they were all melted together. Like this:
Yay! Now for the fun part...
I had to wait another 10 minutes while they cooled/hardened...then I popped them out of the mold!
Pretty cool, huh? I don't know how often I'll actually use my Crayon Maker, but it was a fun experiment. Now I have new crayons!
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