This really sucks.

I run my unheated honey from my extractor into an unheated sump. The
sump has two settling baffles in it. I use a rotor type honey pump to
move my honey straight into barrels. Works pretty good, but slow.
Occasionally you'll  hear a frame or two inside the extractor fly apart.
Slowly the wires from the used to be wired foundation floats out of the
extractor, through the sump and gets sucked into my pump and stops its
rotation. After so many pieces of wire hit the pump, the rotor in the
pump flies into many pieces. The rotor for the pump costs just over two
hundred dollars to replace. Besides using "plastic" foundation, has
anybody any wise ideas as to how I mite filter out the floating wires
from the honey before they get sucked into my pump?
John.

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