Wax Dipping Beekeeping Equipment

Parrafin wax is one of the industrial wax that you can use to dip your boxes in.

Wax dipping beekeeping equipment.

Offers services in hot wax dipping of beehive woodenware. This shows how we cook woodenware at 300 degrees fahrenheit for 10 minutes in a mixture of 20 microcrystalline wax and 80 paraffin wax. Specifications and more info on wax dipping. It would have been nice if it were taller but it works ok and i didn t have the time or money to get a better one made.

Coating the wood in wax is beneficial for the bees and the hive itself. The tank is stainless and filled with a mixture of 2 1 paraffin to microcrystalline wax. It is currently contains 280 lbs of paraffin and beeswax. Wax dipped beehives and beekeeping equipment.

C so the wax penetrates the timber and to leave the components in long enough to ensure they are heated right through. Hot wax dipping is a great way to preserve your beehives for years to come. Tank for wax dipping your wooden hive ware. I was expanding my beekeeping and bought a lot of new equipment so i decided to try dipping in wax and gum rosin to preserve the equipment.

The key is to have the wax as hot as safely possible 150 160deg. Hivefive apiary bee supply llc 149 trident point rd. This process cooks. I got the tank from a friend who had it custom made.

Wax dipping beekeeping equipment. The water within the boxes boils out and it is replaced with wax. Can do 3 supers at a time. Welcome to funny farm apiaries llc.

A few years ago we built a wax dipping tank. This is from the beekeeper who sent me the diagrams but my experience is basically the same inside tank dimension are 36 x 24 by 34 depth and it sits 8 above the ground on a steel base so total overall height it 42. Normally approximately 4 5 minutes the hive world dipping tank is designed to make this process as safe as possible.