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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: barry42001 on April 25, 2014, 05:49:57 pm

Title: Last of the equipment arrived
Post by: barry42001 on April 25, 2014, 05:49:57 pm

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Dadants delux solar wax melter. My honey room is set.

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Title: Re: Last of the equipment arrived
Post by: Perry on April 25, 2014, 09:16:33 pm

Very nice!  (green with envy).  ;D
The next one I cobble together will be big enough to put queen excluders in. I find them a pain to clean.

Title: Re: Last of the equipment arrived
Post by: blueblood on April 25, 2014, 09:20:58 pm

Nice solar melter! Perry, I agree about the excluders.  I have plastic ones and you can't go burning those with torches. :o

Title: Re: Last of the equipment arrived
Post by: Barbarian on April 26, 2014, 04:02:09 am

Nice looking bit of kit.

In my latitude (?), I have to make modifications to my melters. They are raised at the high end so that the glass is at about 45* to the horizontal and with the rainfall I have short legs attached to prevent the base from rotting.

In the past, I have used an upturned roof covered with a sheet of glass as a melter to clean an excluder. I had to watch the temperature, though. A slotted zinc excluder distorted with the heat.