Hello All,

Yesterday while going through a beekeepers  estate sale we came across a large stack of rusted  queen excluders.  I believe the excluders had been scrapped to remove wax instead of using a better method and surface rust followed as the excluders have not been in use for about five years.

The widow asked me what could be done to renew  the excluders.  I really do not know of a method for badly rusted excluders but have heard of a few for mildly rusted excluders . Any successful methods BEE-l members want to share?

Rust on queen excluders tears bees wings. Never scrape a queen excluder with a hive tool as the practice removes the coating which protects the excluder from rusting.

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison