Cleaning Old Wooden Frames

[Bee Bird]

I am now starting my second season with very second hand equipment, have just replaced two brood frames with new, but the old frames are full of honey from sugar syrup fed last autumn, and so dirty, how do I get rid of the honey, undo the frames and clean them? Or shall I just throw them away....

 

[rae]

Melt them. The wax and honey will separate. We use honey from the solar melter for the barbecue - don't feed it back to the bees.

A solar melter is really good for this sort of thing.

 

[m.s.]

Dirty as in how, what, why and when? Have a pic?

The bees can clean them up them selves, crush and strain is another alternative.

 

[m.s.]

I use both plastic and wood frames, I don't have any pics of dirty wood frames.

Here's some shots of plastic frames I reused from a hive about 5 years old with wax moth damage.
I picked off the cocoons, webs, and scraped the edge before reuse. nothing more.

Brood comb, brushed off with a stiff brush, scraped edges and reused.

They don't care, new or in reuse. Of course new, they have to build comb