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> Jack,
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> What exactly is a SWM? Is it a Solar Wax Melter? Does this really
> remove the fine particulate from the wax?
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> Dirk Howard
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> >>> JOHN IANNUZZI <[log in to unmask]> 10/26/95
> 06:40am >>>
> REPLY: The SWM is the easiest and fastest way to do it. Still operating
> mine right now, after having "extracted" 9 shallow frames of honey in it,
> with milk filters, of course. This is the Balto area and sunshine is still
> available for melting despite the frosty morns.
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> Jack the B-man
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REPLY Yes, it's what U say it is. Yes, it does. My wax goes into a
recycled nylon stocking resting on freezer wrap resting on my big
pan in the SWM. The spout end has a six-inch milk filter, folded one
quarter up, thru which the melted wax is filtered into a lower collecting
pan, usually a one-pound loaf pan. The end product comes out very very
very clean. It goes w/o saying that everything must be crystal clean at
the outstart. My three-pound block of wax thus made usually comes in
first at a n y fair, year after year. In 1982, one such block came in
first in seven such competitions. Don't enter that many any more, just
three now. Jack the B-man
John Iannuzzi PhD * "Singing masons building roofs
9772 Old Annapolis Rd * of gold." --Shakespeare
Ellicott City MD 21042 usa * 20 Italian colonies
[log in to unmask] * 3-1/2 decades in beedom
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