. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Bingham Smoker. â¬tnxtaxwlf Sottas, #r. HOW TO MAKE A BELLOWS SMOKER. A good smoker is an indispensable implement in the ' apiary. One of the best is the Bingham, and although there are many sold as Bingham smokers, some of these are only very inferior imitations of it. There is nothing more trying to the patience than to find, during an operation, that the smoker one is using will not work and will not send forth the needed smoke ; and yet it has been our lot, not unfrequently, to come across such a smoker when assisting a brother bee-kee
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Bingham Smoker. â¬tnxtaxwlf Sottas, #r. HOW TO MAKE A BELLOWS SMOKER. A good smoker is an indispensable implement in the ' apiary. One of the best is the Bingham, and although there are many sold as Bingham smokers, some of these are only very inferior imitations of it. There is nothing more trying to the patience than to find, during an operation, that the smoker one is using will not work and will not send forth the needed smoke ; and yet it has been our lot, not unfrequently, to come across such a smoker when assisting a brother bee-keeper in his manipulations. We have seen some made in this country that worked quite as well as the originals, but the majority are made with a view to cheap- ness, and not efficiency, and quite regardless of the principles upon which a smoker should be constructed. The usual defects consist in using unsuitable springs, and leather for bellows, and in not making the entrance in the barrel above the blast-pipe in the shape of a funnel. This defect, if the pipe and the hole above it are not exactly in a line, causes a great deal of air which ought to be driven into the smoker to pass on one side, and the full power of the bellows is not utilised. The spring being of steel instead of brass, and the wrong shape,pre- veuts the bellows working smoothly and closing suffi- ciently, so that the whole volume of air in the bellows can- not be driven out. The only drawing and description of a Bingham smoker we know of is that given lately by Mr. Cheshire, but from his drawings it is evident that he has either never seen a *=â ' genuine one, or else he has never dissected one to ascertain its mechanism, and has not understood the principles upon which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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