> 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 used to try many different things:  Boiling in lye water, boiling in
water, stacking and pouring on gas and igniting, solar heating etc.
 
The methods that save the wax can return an amzing amount from a
relatively few excluders, but many are hard on the excluders and I have
other things to do.
 
In the last 5 years I have decided that cleaning is a waste of time.  I
just make sure the bees have a sheet or two of foundation nearby so that
they have a good place to use wax, and assume that they will move what
they find to be in the way.  They seem to.  After all, if they will eat
out a sheet of newspaper, or a grease patty, surely they can handle a
little wax.
 
Allen