[max2]

For my wire excluders I use a heat gun to melt the wax off and for my plastic excluders I simply put them in the freezer overnight and bend them the next day and the wax splits off - what are other beekeepers doing?

 

[Ravenseye]

Same here. In the summer, I have a solar wax melter that I can fit excluders into and that works pretty good as well.

 

[StevenG]

They go into a solar wax melter. I don't have to do anything except put them in, then remove both them and a nice cake of wax.

 

[alpha6]

Clean??!! What for..they will just get dirty again. I just give it a once over with a paint scraper...seems to work ok.

 

[Honeyboy]

Depending on how many you have I run around 100 hives, so in the fall I warm up a 45 gallon drum 1/2 full of water and dip the queen excluders in the drum , it takes about 10 seconds and the excluders are clean and ready to go. Expanding on the warm up part I set the drum on a propane outdoor deep fryer. takes about 20-30 minutes to get get the water to temp.

 

[dni]

just noticed this tool in the new brushy catalogue:

Excluder Cleaning Tool http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Excluder-Cleaning-Tool/productinfo/514/