Two people have asked for information so I thought it might be of interest      
to a wider audience.  I must  point out that it is not something that can be    
carried out in the kitchen and you need to be a do-it-yourself person.  To      
go with the press you need a container to hold ten to twenty pounds of          
liquid wax suspended in a water jacket heated by gas or electricity.  The       
local junk yard supplied my needs for less than five pounds.  An old            
fashioned copper (may be a strange word in the States, a ten gallon washing     
boiler used before the advent of washing machines) and a stainless steel        
inner cylinder.  I fitted a liquid gas ring under the copper and I was in       
business.  The apparatus is still going strong after sixteen years.             
I purchased the press from Germany in 1980 for =A3150, around 225 dollars. =    
 I                                                                              
salvage every scrap of wax and always have a surplus.  The press is the         
largest made, for deep Dadant size combs but it will make any size.  We         
still have to learn the commonsense of standardisation as we have five          
different sizes of brood comb and five of supers.  Since 1980 this press has    
turned out all my needs and that of several of my fellow beekeepers.  We        
wire the frames and embed with a 6volt transformer.                             
The financial aspect.  To buy foundation in England is very expensive,  well    
over a pound a sheet for my size of combs.  I can turn out a hundred sheets     
in a day without effort and make some candles along the way, all for a few      
pence worth of gas. Process is simple, very little skill needed.=20             
The name of the press is Herzog, quoted output 20 to 30 sheets per hour,( my    
speed is nearer 20) and is  now available in various sizes, Dadant =A3320,      
Langstroth =A3280, around 420 dollars. This is the price quoted by local        
appliance firms so might well be cheaper purchased direct.                      
Sid. P.                                                                         
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Alresford                                                                       
Hants SO24 9HF                                                                  
England