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Cleaning Cappings - the Easy Way (Hobbyist) <wax>
First step: feed them back to the bees in a wash tub. They'll
bee dry in a couple of hours on a warm day when the bees are
flying.
Second step: place the cappings in a recycled nylon stocking,
using a No. 10 can, with both ends removed, as a chute. Close
end with bread wrapper tie.
Third step: swish stocking thru warm water until the color
of the water is clear.
Fourth step: hang stocking up to drip dry.
Fifth step: place stocking in a solar wax melter--mine
measures roughly 15 inches high by 20 inches wide by 36
inches long, the resting pan of which is covered with
freezer paper--any side up--with the mouth of the
resting pan having a six-inch milk filter thru which
the melted wax passes before dripping into a lower
crystal clean one-pound aluminum loaf pan.
Nota bene: The paper placement keeps the resting pan
clean at all times--don't use
the recommended wire mesh. It's totally unnecessary.
Remove the collector pan the next day: the wax will pop out
easily and it will be thoroughly clean, even the base, ready
for any use--NO scraping or reprocessing necessary. The
next time, start w/ clean freezer paper and filters.
[My blocks of beeswax, so prepared, have taken blue ribbons
at the county and state fairs for many many years].
I KNOW OF NO SIMPLER, EASIER OPERATION.
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
**Website: http://www.xmetric.com/honey
**Email: [log in to unmask] [1jan981031est]
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