Curley
House Bee
- Joined
- May 29, 2014
- Messages
- 364
- Reaction score
- 7
- Location
- Wilts
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 8
Hi and a Happy New Year to you all.
I'm planning to make some OMF floors this winter. They will have an under floor entrance (a la JBM and others) and I am bearing in mind a probable future switch to vaporizing oxalic acid. (Currently I'm a trickler ).
With an underfloor entrance I gather from other posts it will be easiest to vape from under the mesh.
So the question is: can I use galvanized mesh or do I need to stump up for stainless steel?
I know a solution of oxalic acid will be corrosive but how corrosive is vaporized oxalic acid? Presumably desublimation of oxalic acid on any condensation on the hive walls would lead to a solution of oxalic acid forming which would be highly corrosive if it trickled down but I don't know if this is likely to happen. Has anyone noticed corrosion of galvanized mesh?
I'm planning to make some OMF floors this winter. They will have an under floor entrance (a la JBM and others) and I am bearing in mind a probable future switch to vaporizing oxalic acid. (Currently I'm a trickler ).
With an underfloor entrance I gather from other posts it will be easiest to vape from under the mesh.
So the question is: can I use galvanized mesh or do I need to stump up for stainless steel?
I know a solution of oxalic acid will be corrosive but how corrosive is vaporized oxalic acid? Presumably desublimation of oxalic acid on any condensation on the hive walls would lead to a solution of oxalic acid forming which would be highly corrosive if it trickled down but I don't know if this is likely to happen. Has anyone noticed corrosion of galvanized mesh?