cheese slicer?

[Ben Brewcat]

Anyone ever use one for uncapping (a hobbyist level)? You know, like a spatula with a blade 1/8" below the plane of the spatula. A friend locally mentioned that he uses one for 4 hive's worth of uncapping; sounds inexpensive and perhaps easy. Thoughts?

[Jim Fischer]

My wire-based cheese slicer would need more
tension to cut through cappings - its a little
loose. But I don't see why any sharp object
with a handle could not be used to uncap.

I messed around with a 400 milliwatt laser
and some servomotors last summer trying to
make a "laser uncapper". It worked ok,
vaporized the cappings and did not heat up
the honey in the cells much at all, but
I can't see making it into a product, as
a laser that could be moved fast enough to
be as fast as a chain uncapper would have
to be powerful - several watts! This would
be both expensive and a dangerous tool.

[chemistbert]

Oh but the g33k points youwould score with a full size laser uncapper....

[Jim Fischer]

Oh yeah, like I need any more.

[beegee]

Jim, why don't you work on a laser-zapper for SHB and Varroa destructor. You could use a spectrographic scanner to identify the little pests and computer-controlled micro-steppers to aim the laser. Probably wouldn't cost more than $4-5000 per hive.....

[Jim Fischer]

> Jim, why don't you work on a laser-zapper for SHB
> and Varroa destructor...

My good friend Zach beat everyone else to it
already, with plain old electricity.
Looky here:
http://www.cyberbee.net/huangpub/2001ABJ.pdf

...and yeah, Zach racked up a lot more "geek points"
than dollars with his little invention.

...I TOLD him to call it "Crispy Critters"
if he wanted it to sell
http://theimaginaryworld.com/tic378.jpg
but would he listen? Nooooo.

[power napper]

Cheese slicer--Never thought of that, I found one of those in the kitchen drawer and it is even stainless--will try it next time we uncap some comb.

[nursebee]

I would not bother. I'd rather sell a cheese slicer and use my hot knife to slice cheese.

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[power napper]

Just make sure the cheese slicer is stainless.

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