Hey Mike you can polish your frames with Oxalic Acid for sure it’s a good
wood cleaner.
Do you know how the treatment with the vaporizer works? I don’t open the
hives when I treat the colonies. Before you start spraying your first hive
I have finished at least 4 with my vaporizer.
I drilled a 13mm (1/2 inch) hole in each hive cover for the vaporizer hose.
I put the transparent hose, approx 1 meter (3ft) in the hole and blow the
oxalic acid fog in the colony. As soon the fog comes out of the entrance
from the hive I know that the acid has reached everything and I close the
entrance with a sponge for 10 mins. I close the hole in the cover with a
cork and the work is done.
Les than 2 mins each colony and no harm to bees or queen. I have 4
vaporizers in a row on a little stand from aluminum angle and treat 4
colonies in the same time.
Without any rush a treat 60 colonies per hour.

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