Tim Wilbanks showed us a little secret.. I need to apply it but need the corks first...
he took the bottle of testers, put a tapered cork in it. That tapered cork has a hole drilled through it.
He has a second cork with a small drill bit... like a 1/8 bit or so, the cutting end is twisted up into that cork... the base of the drill bit slides tightly into the cork in the bottle, and goes through, almost all the way to the bottom, NOT QUITE touching the bottom.. to mark a queen, he holds her between his fingers.. (You will have to ask Ted about the pressure used to hold her) pulls the drill bit from the bottle and cork... the cork wipes all the paint off the bit, except a small dab on the base of the bit.. he touches the queens thorax and is DONE......
he puts the queen in an empty cage.. lets the paint dry... then holds this cage up to the cage with the attendants and blows gently.. the queen SCOOTS into the original cage...
Watching Tim, or Robo handle the queen with such confidence makes me feel like a clutz.. I can make Miniscule gun parts with a bit of metal and a file, but I cant hold a queen in my fingers...
