Melt down that old junk brood comb in this high quality solar wax melter! This melter will last for years and years in your bee yard and look great doing it.
Simply scrape off and place old wax or comb into the tray, and the sun does the work for you! The wax collects in a small metal tray below.
Dimensions - 24" long, 14.5" wide, 9" tall
I bought this at the EMBC in February and man do I love this melter. I had been using a crockpot and you have to remember to keep an eye on it because you could catch your wax on fire. This you set it in the yard fill it with your wax cappings and forget about. When you remember you had put a batch of wax in you go over and blame your beautiful rendered wax. Hard to believe a paper towel can filter wax so clean. Thanks John
Easy to setup, easy to clean, beautiful clean wax!!
I have been using crockpot method for sometime and got tired of having to do it over and over and over to get clean wax. First time run on a mostly overcast day and I had the cleanest wax ever with only 1 day. I doubled the paper towel and couldn't be happier. Wish I had known how much better this was couple years ago!
Since we are a small scale operation right now. We started this year with 7 hives and now have 12 Queen right hives. We got this Solar melter to make it easier through out the season melting comb as we scrape it off the frames or cleaning up old frames. It has been so easy just taking what comb we get off the hives on each inspection and just putting it in the melter and let it go to work. Most days our melter is sitting in our greenhouse and it still melts the wax. But on sunny days we bring out into the direct sun and it works much faster. We keep the pan scraped off every few days of non-wax leftovers. We will see when we get capping's after harvesting our honey if we use this or the water bath melting. I highly recommend this Solar Wax Melter, Thanks Hillco as always for outstanding products.
First off, I love this wax melter. It works great, but could be even better. It makes the most yellow wax, in one melting, than I made last year with a two step process. That being said, here are 3 items that would fix a few things.
1) the rod that holds the upper pan needs a second hole on just one side to hold it in place.
2) the catch pan needs to be 1 inch wider than the upper pan. The wax misses the lower pan unless you align them perfectly.
3) include some instructions, even just a small sheet of paper.
At $185 I believe these could be accomplished at no additional cost.
Final word is get ya one and enjoy melting wax.
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