Candle Dye on Stove

[KatMcD]

Oh no...I had a box of votives sitting on the top of my stove...used the stove then moved the box of votives off the stove (they were on the top ledge, but still go too hot!) They melted and the wax soaked into the box then into the stove and now I have a purple stain on my stove...help!! We live in Air Force housing and they want me to pay for an entire new stove, the stain is about 2\\\" x 4\\\". Thanks.

[David P]

well the classic way of removing wax stains is to get lots of brown craft paper (the stuff with brown stripes that you use for parcels) and then lay one sheet on the wax and apply a very hot iron - the wax will migrate towards the heat and soak into the paper - repeat this as many times as you need. It would be best if the stove is not hot.

i assume that it is an enamelled stove?
it may be powder coated though - this does have a tendency to hold colour.
try the ironing trick - if it doesnt work you could rely on the fact that even candle dye is suseptible to bleach. mix some strong parazone type bleach (any toilet type bleach without colour, duh) with some talc till it makes a paste and slap it on - leave it for as long as you can, a day or so at least.

if that fails - you would be suprised how cheap it is to get something powder coated. see if you can remove the panel and look up powder coaters in the yellow pages, take it to them, cheaper than buying a new stove.

good luck