Sunday, May 23, 2010
Since it is sunny and HOT today like every sunny day I pulled out my wax melter.
You can see the thermometer inside, this design doesn't work that well, it is to deep, a better design would be a black metal sheet 4 - 6 inches away from the glass, this will be change when I get around to it. It will still reach almost 100c the problem is when you pile comb inside the top layer melts then runs down to a cooler layer and freezes, so a larger flat black metal surface about 6" away from the glass should work much better.
This is a shot of some de-waxed comb, you can see the cacoons made inside each wax cell by the bee larva, once the wax is gone they just fall apart.
You can see the thermometer inside, this design doesn't work that well, it is to deep, a better design would be a black metal sheet 4 - 6 inches away from the glass, this will be change when I get around to it. It will still reach almost 100c the problem is when you pile comb inside the top layer melts then runs down to a cooler layer and freezes, so a larger flat black metal surface about 6" away from the glass should work much better.
This is a shot of some de-waxed comb, you can see the cacoons made inside each wax cell by the bee larva, once the wax is gone they just fall apart.
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