. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. 1. The Wax Cleanser of G. C. Greiner. The cappings are then ready for the first boiling, for which a deep kettle with bail is the most con- venient. For all boiling and melting of wax I use white enamel or granite dishes. Tin or iron is liable to dis- color it. While cappings should never he boiled to excess, a moderate heat with frequent stirring for about 30 minutes, and plenty of water, will give good results. After the con- tents are sufficiently cooled a nice, yellow cake can be taken from the kettle and the loose, coarse impuri- ties that a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. 1. The Wax Cleanser of G. C. Greiner. The cappings are then ready for the first boiling, for which a deep kettle with bail is the most con- venient. For all boiling and melting of wax I use white enamel or granite dishes. Tin or iron is liable to dis- color it. While cappings should never he boiled to excess, a moderate heat with frequent stirring for about 30 minutes, and plenty of water, will give good results. After the con- tents are sufficiently cooled a nice, yellow cake can be taken from the kettle and the loose, coarse impuri- ties that are found on the under side scraped off or rolled off with the back of a case-knife. The heavier refuse is always found in the bottom of the kettle, but the lower part of the wax cake contains more or less of about the same weight as wax, so that gravitation alone will not sep- arate the two. The wax cleanser, which the ac- companying drawing (Fig. 1) repre- sents, does this to perfection. It consists of a graniteware pan 4 in. high and 14 in. across the top with a sc,reen frame 12 in. in diameter to allow its entering the pan to about one-half of its depth. It is held in position by a piece of light bandiron with a hook on each end (See Fig. 2) to catch on the rim of the pan. It slips in its place as easily as a well- oiled jackknife opens. The screen, separately shown at Fig. 2, is a rim of heavy tin covered by 12-to-the-inch brass screen, with a short little tin brace soldered on each side of the rim to keep it in its place. To operate the cleanser is very simple, but it requires some exact- ness. About 2}4 or 3 lbs. of wax from the first boiling is placed in the pan with sufficient water to fill the pan nearly half full when all is melted. With occasional stirring and ten to fifteen minutes moderate boiling the content is thoroughly liquified. The screen is then inserted and fastened by the bandiron hooks, as shown at Fg. 1, when boiling water is turned onto the screen until
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