Newbee ?
How do you separate the honey from the wax?
 
thank you
 
Rob
 
 
 
Blaine S Nay wrote:
 
> >can i impose on the collective ideas of u all...... to find out a
> quick
> &
> >efficient way to get rid of the burr comb that is clogging up between
>
> >the bars?
>
> I built a "solar wax extractor".  It's essentially two of hive boddies
>
> with a sheet of clear plexiglass (glass may break from temperature
> changes) on top and an old queen excluder between the hive bodies.  I
> had
> a stainless steel pan made to hust fit the inside dimensions of the
> bottom hive body.
>
> When I have some wax (from old frames, cappings, burr-comb, etc) that
> I
> want to recover, I place it in the upper hive body on top of the old
> queen excluder.  The hot sun quickly melts the wax into the pan.  The
> dead bees and other sludge stays on top on the excluder.  From
> time-to-time, I replace the pan with some newspapers, invert the queen
>
> excluder.  The hot sun loosens the gunk to fall onto the newspaper.
> The
> resulting lump works nicely to start a fire in the fireplace.
>
> The point of all this?  One could put queen excluders with burr comb
> into
> such a device to clean them up.  O'l Mr. Sol puts out a lot of heat,
> but
> not enough to damage equipment or wax.
>
> Blaine S Nay; Anchorage, Alaska
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