Wimmels
New Bee
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2016
- Messages
- 7
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- Location
- Netherlands
- Hive Type
- Dadant
- Number of Hives
- 3
you're faffing around with a bodged up bit of pipe with oxalic acid dihydrate in, then you are going to stand there with your nose almost against the hive playing a gas blowlamp over the pipe. Sublimated OA spewing out all over the place, as well as the possibility of the joints popping if there is any kind of blockage. Notwithstanding the dangers of breathing in oxalic vapours or desublimated crystals there's the matter of extremely hot metalwork and the possibility of overheating the oxalic and damaging the bees.
Well worth saving a couple of quid I reckon.
The pipe is not bodged up, as the fumes ventilate into the hive via the pipe. The joints won't pop as these are not soldered but clamped.
Anyone vaporizing Oxalic acid without any face/gas protection is being dangerous, but that's the same for all devices which generate these kinds of vapors.