What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[Dekzion]

I have an old computer fan that is going to sit on the top of the stack and draw the warm air up through a hole in a crownboard, although it may be sufficient just to let natural convection do the job - I've not yet tried it with a stack of full supers. The heater has a built in thermostat and with it set at about 3/4 the aluminium tray gets to just over 35 degrees. With an empty super as the first one in the stack I reckon that should be warm enough to warm the combs ... time will tell.

My dad reckoned I should have been named Heath ... I've had form for making things out of nothing almost since I could walk.

You can get a gizmo with a ceramic heater and fan fixed together and a digital thermostat both running on 12 volts. (that Chinese place beginning with t)
I built a surround about 50mm wide of 50mm kingspan two layers deep on a langstroth size board and fixed these to the base with the heater inside and control outside, then stacked two supers on top, ( would have been as many as needed) set at 40c with a slice of foam on top for a couple of hours. perrfik. cost about a tenner and a couple of hours build. didn't need a drip tray as the frames were nicely capped.

 

[drex]

Interested. Can't find it. Any chance of a link, please?

 

[Dekzion]

they're discontinued on T but Ali has them, link below, the thermostat with probe is on the same page.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100...MIosLG1suBiQMV8ZpQBh2PXAoFEAQYAiABEgIBFPD_BwE

 

[JamezF]

I've been assembling some UFEs for my nucs. Sensibly this time I went through my scrap wood pile and pulled out as many pieces as I needed to complete the six floors I wanted and cut all the pieces at the same time, rather than making them one after the other and then finding that I didn't have enough to make everything exactly the same size, as I did with my full size floors. It's meant the assembly has gone much more smoothly and quickly.

James