Cleaning and filtering beesxax on a large scale

[For want of a better word]

What methods are used to clean and filter beeswax on a large scale????

50kg .......

Have wax from the apimelter... but still is not refined enough for candles.
Made one of pollyhives water/wax separators.... works well... but only 2 to 3 kg at a time...

Built a wax filtering hot oven... filters through linen... time consuming.. quantity produces OK for a few tins of polish or apidea squares press.

Ideas please.

 

[mbc]

What methods are used to clean and filter beeswax on a large scale????

50kg .......

Have wax from the apimelter... but still is not refined enough for candles.
Made one of pollyhives water/wax separators.... works well... but only 2 to 3 kg at a time...

Built a wax filtering hot oven... filters through linen... time consuming.. quantity produces OK for a few tins of polish or apidea squares press.

Ideas please.

I use that guys (Newton), ideas about apples, melt the wax slowly over water and inpurities will either float on top or sink to the bottom and the middle bit is clean.

 

[Poly Hive]

2-3 kgs? My cakes are a good 7-8 and the machine coped with the output of 60+ colonies, and take into account I was uncapping Manleys down to the wood so a considerable amount of wax.

I think you need to scale up your machine.

My last filtering was through two layers of surgical lint btw.....and that was indeed candle quality. Sold thousands of them.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

You could use a clean 300kg barrel, heat with gas ring or add electric heating element, put some hot water in it and add wax to melt, tap or ladle out wax through a strainer... you could buy a stainless steel tank, gas or electric, single or double walled, instead of using a barrel... or alternatively a much better option is to build your own tank to the size you want from stainless steel sheet, gas, electric, single or double walled.

 

[Beefriendly]

Set up multiple filtering units inside your apimelter, shouldn't take more than a day or so to filter that amount.

 

[For want of a better word]

Thanks PH and HM..... I Need a bigger tank!

How to Masie & Co and the other foundation suppliers clean it by the dumpy bag load?

 

[Poly Hive]

Peter Kemble is the man to ask.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

I Need a bigger tank!
How to Masie & Co and the other foundation suppliers clean it by the dumpy bag load?

In large stainless steel tanks, similar to what I described earlier, I think this is the system used by Maisimore in the links below.

http://www.rietsche.de/index.php/en...he-fully-automatic-beeswax-foundation-machine


http://www.rietsche.de/index.php/en/beeswax-foundation-machines/32-rietsche-wax-tanks

http://www.rietsche.de/index.php/en/beeswax-foundation-machines/29-rietsche-wax-band-machine

 

[For want of a better word]

Thanks... very useful links... no mention of particulate removal / filtration.
Wax must be cleaned prior to being put in header tanks?

Cheers

 

[Hivemaker.]

Thanks... very useful links... no mention of particulate removal / filtration.
Wax must be cleaned prior to being put in header tanks?

Cheers

They use semi clean wax blocks which are further filtered, they don't throw cappings and old combs in the tanks then wax straight out onto foundation rollers, to get it to that block stage do as suggested earlier.