At 03:54 AM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>   Keeping 800 hives leaves no time to put oil on top bars. I decided
>that I needed to come up with something else.
>
>  I went to Builders Square bought a $50 Burgess Portable
>Propane Fogger. They use them to fog insecticide. I filled it with
>mineral oil (food grade of course), pulled the trigger and like
>magic I had Mineral Oil fog. I don't know yet how it will work in my
>hives. I will set some aside soon for testing.
>
>  I still don't know if oil will be effective as fog. Also I don't
>know how long this machine, which was made for insecticide, will continue
>to make MO fog.
>
 
The Burgess Propane Fogger is designed to be used with a mineral based
insecticide so it will not effect the longivity of it however it may have an
adverse effect on the bees.