Ted -
 
How do you support your fiberglass screening for the honey to pass through?
Is it over a tank or in-line, and how long is it generally good for?
 
thanx
Joel
 
>Let me add my two cents worth on this topic as well.  I run 85 -100
>colonies and have found a method that works very well for such an
>operation.  I run honey from the extractor into a shallow "stock" tank
>containing tubes of circulating water heated to exactly 100F degrees.
>This is only slightly warmer than the hives themselves (96F) but allows
>the wax to float to the top and clear the honey in about 4 hours.  One
>tank full holds two extractor loads along with all their capping
>drippings.
>
>So I do a batch in the morning, let it settle and then pump it into a
>holding tank, straining it through fiberglass window screening
>material.  I do another batch in the evening, and in this way get
>through 4 extractor loads (40 frames each) or 20 supers per day.
>Obviously, this would not be fast enough for a large operation, but it
>works for me, and allows me to extract about 10,000 lbs of honey in
>about three weeks.
>
>The honey clears nicely at the time I pump it and very few wax particles
>come up to the strainer.  The foam I let come to the top of the holding
>tank and don't even bother about skimming it off until the end of the
>season.  It just sits there and I tap off perfectly clear honey from the
>bottom of the tank.
>
>Ted Fischer
>Dexter, Michigan USA