There are a couple of you tube videos using a heat gun to melt cappings. Here is one. He actually took longer than I did on a frame. I waited a bit longer for the gun to heat up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL7vbrJ6Pvw The process is very quick so little heat goes to the honey. There is an air space below the capping and the wax melts and coalesces on the edge of the cells so the cell is open and the bees have the melted wax to build next year. If the wax is against the honey, which is easy to see since the cappings are honey colored not white, then you would need to use a wax comb/scratcher. There is zero honey dripping so that would indicate that the honey is not heated enough to flow at all. When I used the heat knife or scratcher, I had honey all over the place. It was a real mess. No so with the gun. HMF was mentioned a bit back and you would have a lot more with heated knives than the gun, as seen by all the liquid honey when you use a knife as well as hot honey bubbling on the knife.Again, zero with the gun and much faster. Simply put, it works and I am not looking back. Bill Truesdell Bath, Maine *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html