. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. HELPFUL HINTS FOR NOVICES* JBg- W? How to Make and Use a Solar Wax Extractor. On account of the trouble entailed in the melting of wax by steam a great deal of money is wasted by bee-keepers in this country. Beeswax is one of the most valuable assets the bee-keeper possesses, and it will pay to save even the smallest scraps of comb for melting down. The method that gives the least trouble and produces the finest wax without loss of aroma is the Solar Wax Extractor, which is easily constructed. The material being inexpensive, time
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. HELPFUL HINTS FOR NOVICES* JBg- W? How to Make and Use a Solar Wax Extractor. On account of the trouble entailed in the melting of wax by steam a great deal of money is wasted by bee-keepers in this country. Beeswax is one of the most valuable assets the bee-keeper possesses, and it will pay to save even the smallest scraps of comb for melting down. The method that gives the least trouble and produces the finest wax without loss of aroma is the Solar Wax Extractor, which is easily constructed. The material being inexpensive, time is the only serious outlay. It is cheap to work, as the sun provides fuel without cost. When made, the extractor should be placed in such a position that, after dealing with the last stock, the bee-keeper must pass it, and any pieces of comb removed during the manipulation may be placed in it and melted at once, so that they are not wasted and do not lie about to provide food for and breed wax moths. The idea of the extractor is to attract and retain as much of the heat of the sun as possible, and for this purpose it is made very much like a garden light. The main portion, No. i (Fig. i), is made of an outer shell fin. thick, the sides (A) being outside measure 2ft. i^in. long, i2fin. deep at one end, and 2fin. at the- other. One end (B) 2§in. deep, 14-Mn. long, and the other (C) 12'fin. deep, i^in. long, so that, when these are nailed inside .the sides, it gives an outside width measurement of i6in. The bottom, fin. thick, is now nailed across the narrow way, giving an outside depth measure of i3|in. at one end and 3!in. at the other. The inside, except the bottom, is now lined with thick felt, which is turned over the edge to the outside, tacked down, and then cut level with the outside edge of the wood, so that when the glass frame is closed it is quite airtight. Over this, with the grain running in the opposite direction to that of the outer case, to prevent warping, but w
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