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	Name:	Beekeeper Tony -
	Subject:	Solar Wax Melter
	Date:	5/30/2013 9:50:22 PM

I will take my cappings and let them strain through a cheese cloth and get any extra honey possible (usually I keep this honey for myself) then I take and put the wax cappings and put them in my solar wax melter which I made. It was too simple. I can take a picture of it tomorrow.

I took a old styrofoam cooler and lined it with aluminum foil. Then I took a tupperware bowl that fit inside the cooler and put about 1 inch of water in it and then pull a cheese cloth across it rubberbanding it so it was tight. I lay my old wax on it and put a plexiglass lid on top. It gets supper hot quick on a sunny day. I have some of the most beautiful beeswax you have ever seen. Whats neat is its different colors when it comes out at different times of the year. Clover early summer, kundzu late summer is examples of why its different.

Not sure what I will do with my beeswax but nothing is wasted in a beehive.

Look for an article on me and my bees in Lake Magazine in the next month or two...

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