[Hook]

My first year I had no extractor either. I uncapped the comb with a hot knife, and let it drain, for a long time. If you can heat the combs some way, it will drain faster. The other option, if you can, is rent an extractor, or pay somebody to do it for you.

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Dale Richards
Dal-Col Apiaries
Drums, PA

 

[Hook]

Uncapping and letting it drain. It will work, but like I said, it takes a while. You can mash all the comb, but then you are left with no comb, and starting all over. Choice is yours. And like I said, heating it up will help it drain. Even if you put an entire super in some enclose heated with light bulbs, and get it to about 95 degrees, it will drain...


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Dale Richards
Dal-Col Apiaries
Drums, PA

[This message has been edited by Hook (edited October 12, 2002).]

 

[Hook]

When I mentioned heating it, 95 degrees is no warmer than if it were in the hive itself.


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Dale Richards
Dal-Col Apiaries
Drums, PA