From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:32:17 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: shakedown

Pav wrote:

> Following on from this i wondered about the temperatures attainable in a solar wax-
> melter, and whether gear cooked in one for sufficient number of hot days might not in fact
> be okay after all. Given your underwater-bath never passes 100 deg C anyway, well-
> made solar melters are not going to be much cooler on a really good day.

Reply:
Pav, don't forget to factor in the water bath as moisture, for a wet
breakdown scenario vs a dry one in a solar wax melter. Slow cooking with
moisture has bearing here I believe.

Regards,

Dee-