Tapers

[lita*]

Hello. Does anyone have a source for tapers? Or if use something as an alternative - what would that be?
I can't find any reference to buying them in Australia. Yet the teachers keep asking for them!
As far as I am aware they are a long thin tapered candles, but one teacher believed they did not have wax on them.
So are they long pieces of thin wood? And cn you buy them?
Lita

[Labbie]

SOme teacher here use Kebab sticks, hope this helps

[smiley]

Hey hey, welcome Catholic World! We get ours from Gaffney Trading. You can buy 50 English white tapers for lots of money ($19 from memory), or 100 Australian beeswax ones for about $5.00. Their website doesn't list prices, but we just bought another supply recently. Just google them, they're quite quick. WE were allowed to use a school purchase order (we are a cathedral school), and I just ordered by email. Hopefully you can do the same thing.

Cheeers, K

[franco]

Hi Lita

I gave up with tapers - too much mess on the glassware, benches and floors!
I used to buy kebab sticks, but I now buy wooden applicator sticks from Livingstone:

WAPPSTP 2 x 150mm Box 1000 $5.12 (inc GST)

Cheap as chips and so much easier.

Regards,
Fran

[Paula]

Hi, I got tapers from Church Supplies,2nd Floor Dymocks Building, 428 George St Sydney. Phone 0292732268 Fax 0292333269. very fast delivery time!

1 Box of vigil tapers ( beeswax) = 20.00
2 Boxes lighting tapers (long white) 28.50 - 55 in each box

I keep them in a straw to help prevent breakages.

[ellie]

We use paddle pop sticks generally, or short lengths of cotton twine.

Ellie
Trinity Christian School

[RosalieM]

We sometimes just use birthday candles... or applicator sticks/paddlepop sticks like others have mentioned.
Rosalie

[Ian]

We have tapers. I don't know where from. I discourage the use of them as whenever they are used, I seem to spend the next week cleaning wax out of clogged Bunsen Burners.

Being an "Affluent Private School", we use Red Head matches!

Regards
Ian

[coxy]

I quite often purchase "Party Candles" pack of 24, 17cms long and really thin (like a match) and in a variety of colours. Often on sale at supermarkets for about $1 or thereabouts I think. We also use paddlepop sticks, and skewers.