"With these melters it is possible to recover the wax and the honey cappings without harming the quality of honey . Honey and wax melt simultaneously with separate their different densities, honey sinks to the bottom and the wax remains on the surface."
Thanks Adam. Is good to know that Swenty sells such equipment. We have a representative of Swenty in Portugal. Do you have some experience or opinion about them?
I have not experience with that kind of melter. I use a spinner to get the honey out of cappings. As far as Swienty goes, I have a one of these melters that I use to liquify drums of honey: http://www.swienty.com/shop/vare.asp?side=0&vareid=109653
It is well constructed and does a great job of gently melting honey.
It works well melting the cappings from their "spin float" separator but given the fact that the residual capping honey only contains about 1% of your total crop it's not going to yield you anything but honey that has been heated and darkened considerably. If the cappings are still warm it will melt around 400 lbs. of beeswax a day. The accompanying settling tank assures the wax is very clean.
Right now I let the capings 3-4 days trickle in uncapping tub and then I make a pressing the cap. My idea is to replace the pressing caps for a device like this melter.
Eduardo, I don't have a spin float. I use a Maxant basket style spinner: http://www.maxantindustries.com/spinners.html. It works considerably better than letting them drain in a tub.
Thank you for your attention David. My aim is to separate the honey from the wax caping while melting the caps quickly, as efficiently as possible, and that this honey has a good quality to be consumed. To melt the wax I use a steam boiler with double wall.
It's the kind of equipment I'm thinking of acquiring. The manufacturers/sellers (Dadant, Icko, Swenty, among others) of this type of solution indicate that the equipment separate conveniently the wax from the honey and the honey is hardly overheated. Is it really so?
Thanks for the link Flyer Jim. If I understand well what Bill and Dan wrote in 2008 the results were far below expectations and announced by Dadant. I understood correctly ?
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