> Jack,
>
> What exactly is a SWM?  Is it a Solar Wax Melter?  Does this really
> remove the fine particulate from the wax?
>
> Dirk Howard
>
> >>> JOHN IANNUZZI <[log in to unmask]> 10/26/95
> 06:40am >>>
> REPLY: The SWM is the easiest and fastest way to do it.  Still operating
> mine right now, after having "extracted" 9 shallow frames of honey in it,
> with milk filters, of course. This is the Balto area and sunshine is still
> available for melting despite the frosty morns.
>
>   Jack the B-man
>
REPLY  Yes, it's what U say it is. Yes, it does. My wax goes into a
recycled nylon stocking resting on freezer wrap resting on my big
pan in the SWM.  The spout end has a six-inch milk filter, folded one
quarter up, thru which the melted wax is filtered into a lower collecting
pan, usually a one-pound loaf pan. The end product comes out very very
very clean.  It goes w/o saying that everything must be crystal clean at
the outstart.  My  three-pound block of wax thus made usually comes in
first at a n y  fair, year after year.  In 1982, one such block came in
first in seven such competitions. Don't enter that many any more, just
three now.   Jack the B-man
 
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