On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 11:20:44 AM UTC-5, Arie de Muynck wrote:
On 2020-12-01 15:58, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 30/11/2020 23:34, Chuck wrote:
I am in the process of modifying a circuit by adding a small external
circuit board and then wiring into the main board. I don't want the
wires to move around when I'm done, but yet if I ever need to make
repairs, I want to be able to remove them. I see some people using
hot glue for such matters, but I don't think I'd be able to desolder
the wires later without using a lot of force to remove the hot glue
first. What could I use?

Candle wax?

NO!
Long ago (50+ years) I used that to stabilize selfwound RF inductors.
The copper rotted away within a year. It may depend on the wax type,
bees wax is supposed to be less agressive.

Arie

I would think that candle wax would have dyes and perfumes added. Lots of coils, capacitors, transformers, etc. were potted in wax for decades without issues. I guess pure beeswax would be the safe bet though.