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When you see the boxes of filthy dark brown wax being traded in for new foundation at the shows I just wonder what cleansing process it goes through before being pressed into new sheets ?
Expect some of it just gets cleaned with acid.
When you see the boxes of filthy dark brown wax being traded in for new foundation at the shows I just wonder what cleansing process it goes through before being pressed into new sheets ?
Go foundationless ... at least you know that the bees know what's in it ...and they just love building their own comb ! When you see the boxes of filthy dark brown wax being traded in for new foundation at the shows I just wonder what cleansing process it goes through before being pressed into new sheets ?
Expect some of it just gets cleaned with acid.
How do invisible impurities get improved?
Which ones.
Errm - it should have read, "How do invisible impurities get removed".
Any of the various '-icides', including pesticides that somehow find their way into hives. Beekeepers also talk of pathogens being locked into wax, do these get destroyed when wax is being recycled into new foundation?
Errm - it should have read, "How do invisible impurities get removed".
Any of the various '-icides', including pesticides that somehow find their way into hives. Beekeepers also talk of pathogens being locked into wax, do these get destroyed when wax is being recycled into new foundation?
A simple melting point test should do it.
so which is of these pack of Beeswax , the super or 14x12 is cast by me in a silicon mould and which is bought from a lincolnshire retailer of bee equipment?
so which is of these pack of Beeswax , the super or 14x12 is cast by me in a silicon mould and which is bought from a lincolnshire retailer of bee equipment?
So how much bees wax is made into candles these days?
Melting point of...
pure beeswax: 62-64 °C
pure stearin: 54-72 °C
pure paraffin wax: 37 °C
And the contaminated wax is a mixture of these. So I don't think a melting point test would do it.
So how much bees wax is made into candles these days?
I wouldn't trust that 14x12, I'd phone to complain and send it back for a refund, trouble is the postage is a killer these days.
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