mhill20
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Hi Guys,
Do the maqs fumes corrode metal queen excluders!
Do the maqs fumes corrode metal queen excluders!
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Partly.
You can get some rust after a few goes. There a bit on it in the MAQS facts here.
http://www.thorne.co.uk/image/data/Documents/UK MAQS FAQS.pdf
You can get some rust after a few goes. There a bit on it in the MAQS facts here.
http://www.thorne.co.uk/image/data/Documents/UK MAQS FAQS.pdf
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In my experience, anything galvanized (runners, castellations, slotted Queen excluders) will sustain some surface corrosion to the zinc. Any exposed steel will rust. Stainless steel (grille-type) Queen excluders are OK.
... the formic having a not dissimilar effect to that (albeit less aggressively) when fumigating with acetic acid.
I'd happily pay a significant premium for stainless steel hive parts, if they were available.
That's my experience, anyway. I've used MAQS every year for the last 6 years.
... the formic having a not dissimilar effect to that (albeit less aggressively) when fumigating with acetic acid.
I'd happily pay a significant premium for stainless steel hive parts, if they were available.
That's my experience, anyway. I've used MAQS every year for the last 6 years.
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Acetic acid can be used to fumigate empty comb/boxes for wax moths
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If laying MAQS strips on Queen excluders I first put a thin film/smear of Vaseline on the bars.
I put Vaseline on the brood box frame runners as well it reduces the amount of propolis the bees stick the runners up with.
I put Vaseline on the brood box frame runners as well it reduces the amount of propolis the bees stick the runners up with.
i now have stainless steel runners in all my brood boxes, They have been avaiable from Thorne for several years at about £3 per pair
Murox
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Do yo happen to know the grade of steel they use? I find where I am anything that is not 316 tends to be corroded and pitted very quickly. Plastics work of course for a while longer.
not noticed any cooorosien so far with 2 appilication of MAQS, whereas the galv runner in the supers used with MAQS are flaking orange rust, but no idea what grade, ask them
