Author Topic: what the heck is he making? (Read 18040 times)

Slowmodem · « **Reply #20 on:** August 17, 2014, 03:17:35 pm »

Quote from: Papakeith on August 17, 2014, 09:01:52 am

The weekend didn't go exactly as planned. One person in our party(No, not me) had a very tough time of it. We made it up, but by the time we got up there it was too late to start down. Three of our party hitched a ride with my son. Paula and I hopped on the Cog Railway and then hoofed 3/4 of a mile to the truck from the railway station.

Post a picture when you make the trip in Febuary! (I hear the weather is lovely there at that time of year)

riverbee · « **Reply #21 on:** August 18, 2014, 12:16:10 pm »

great picture pk!

Zweefer · « **Reply #22 on:** August 28, 2014, 10:06:12 am »

... so ... what the heck is he making? $:-\$

kebee · « **Reply #23 on:** August 28, 2014, 11:37:23 am »

I'm with you Zweefer, what is he making?

Ken

CpnObvious · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2014, 12:19:26 pm »

Quote from: CpnObvious on August 08, 2014, 10:30:24 am

It was all a ruse...

The temp control is for the fuel line of his plane and the the light bulbs are for his bathroom vanity.

MAAAAAYBEEEE--- it has been a month!

But I'm not much of one to talk, my projects always take much longer than I'd like...

Papakeith · « **Reply #25 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:14:49 pm »

whoops. I used it and put it away already.

Papakeith · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2014, 04:33:01 pm »

OK,

Here are the pictures that I did take while I was putting it together.
It is indeed a honey warmer.
Initially I was looking to use a broken chest freezer, but I had to use an alternate plan.
Start with a queen castle and wire up the controller and a couple of bulbs

add a queen excluder and a couple of deeps or mediums boxes. Add your pail and an outer cover!

Garden Hive · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2014, 05:22:03 pm »

Dag-Nabit....Missed it by that much......

Zweefer · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2014, 09:47:42 pm »

.Looks great! Nice to finally know.

.. And now I can sleep tonight.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #29 on:** September 01, 2014, 08:53:26 pm »

Quote from: Zweefer on August 28, 2014, 09:47:42 pm

.Looks great! Nice to finally know.

.. And now I can sleep tonight.

apisbees · « **Reply #30 on:** September 02, 2014, 01:18:14 pm »

Caution if water or honey hit the bulbs when they are hot they can explode. If you plan on using it to warm honey supers before extracting you may have to remove the cast divider boards to get the heat to the outside frames. But with the thermostats it should work well for you.

CpnObvious · « **Reply #31 on:** September 02, 2014, 02:11:55 pm »

Quote from: apisbees on September 02, 2014, 01:18:14 pm

Caution if water or honey hit the bulbs when they are hot they can explode.

Might not be a bad idea to add a little tin diverter over the bulbs to keep that from happening... Like cheap gas BBQ grills use those as "heat diffusers".

Papakeith · « **Reply #32 on:** September 27, 2014, 09:21:19 pm »

I just tried this setup for warming supers. The hot spots actually melted some of the comb. Not good. My solution was a decent "in a pinch" solution, but the meltdown got me thinking about building a purpose built box again.

Papakeith · « **Reply #33 on:** December 04, 2014, 11:26:18 pm »

I finally got my hands on a small (not functioning) chest freezer a few days ago.

Today I had a chance to wire it up and make it into my honey warmer.
Step one was to cut a slot in the front for my controller.

since the controller was a little bit longer than the distance between the inner and outer wall, I decided to use an outlet extender. I think it worked out quite well.

My heat source is just a light bulb. I wired up the light fixture to the controller and wired the controller to a power cord.

The only thing left is to cut a metal grate for the bottom so the buckets or bottles have something to sit on.

Perry · « **Reply #34 on:** December 05, 2014, 06:18:51 am »

What was that controller worth? Nice set up. I have been using a regular house thermostat, but it only goes to 30 C.
Are you going to bother with a fan of any sort? Probably not necessary with that size cabinet?

Papakeith · « **Reply #35 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:08:43 am »

Here's a link to the controller.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IOL73OI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I thought about a small box fan for circulation. Can't hurt right?

Perry · « **Reply #36 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:34:52 am »

Yeah, I agree. My honey cabinet has 30 something pails in it and because it's so big I need the air to move around in there.

Papakeith · « **Reply #37 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:43:48 am »

30 buckets in one cabinet? That is a room not a cabinet.

This freezer can hold one 5 gallon bucket at a time. with room for another smaller bucket. Certainly not high production, but for now it should suit my purposes.

Perry · « **Reply #38 on:** December 05, 2014, 09:23:48 am »

If you figure it takes 300 lbs. to fill my bottling tank, and those are purpose 30 lb. honey pails, it doesn't take long to figure out doing buckets 2 or 3 at a time isn't efficient. You'll soon find out!

Papakeith · « **Reply #39 on:** December 05, 2014, 09:39:40 am »

With any luck. The nice part is that this whole system is scalable. If I find a bigger freezer or build a large cabinet I can just move the electronics over.