Hello,

From someone new to our association I heard that an extractor was for sale,
since it was no longer used and just taking up space.
When I started asking for some more the details, the answers given were fague.
I suggested the lady in question to first have a good look at the thing and ring me
back with more of the details. The next day during a phonecall it became clear
that it involved a two-frame cast-iron extractor and I was perplexed I might say!
The statement by this lady that she couldn't even lift it up a little bit because of
it's weight was for me the proof that we realy were talking about cast iron here,
more so by taking in consideration that it only was a two frame model. Asking if
she knew what galvanized iron was and if it could perhaps be made of that, she
said that it definitely was cast iron.
I wasn't aware that any such thing as a cast iron extractor ever existed! Apparently
it was handpainted on the inside of the drum, to add to the surprises! Mind you, I
wouldn't like to use the honey that comes from this machine.....surely, the porous
cast iron must have sucked up and developed all kinds of goodies that we would
normally like to keep a long way away from our honey and flakes of paint in honey
do not seem so healthy either!
Has anyone here ever come across a cast iron extractor before?

Ron van Mierlo
Sweden

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