Wire Wooden Framed Queen Excluder - New - £10!

[SDM]

I pay a bit more for wire framed QX but then dont have to ever take them off the hive to store them which is a bonus!
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Why would you have to take of and store any queen excluder, mine live under the roof when not in use

 

[BMH]

Why would you have to take of and store any queen excluder, mine live under the roof when not in use

I'm not sure to be honest.
Mine do the same and I also feed through them. They never leave the top of the brood frames.

Other people had mentioned taking them off and storing them over winter.

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

Other people had mentioned taking them off and storing them over winter.

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Easier to keep track of and get a thorough cleaning and refurb all in one place during the winter months

 

[Swarm]

Easier to keep track of and get a thorough cleaning and refurb all in one place during the winter months

To make sure the bees can get through them next year.

 

[BMH]

To make sure the bees can get through them next year.

I have a tool that I use on each inspection. Blasts through any crud or wax.

Its shaped to scrape of the wire excluder. Works really well keeps them in great condition.

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

Its shaped to scrape of the wire excluder. Works really well keeps them in great condition.

Yeah, that's what I thought - unfortunately it also quickly scrapes off the zinc coating - had a few start rusting here..
I think this year it will be a light going over with a flat scraper to get the worse off then a quick blast with the big propane blowtorch to burn the rest off

 

[Erichalfbee]

Mine are all off and clean

 

[BMH]

Good idea. I'll give mine a blast with the blowtorch for the really bad bits.

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[Swarm]

Mine are all off and clean

How are you always so well organised?
Mine are off, I'll clean them soon honest, as soon as I get some time.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Some of mine are still on...

 

[drex]

I do all my cleaning up in mid winter when it is coldest. Wax etc. Become brittle and chip off easier.

 

[Murox]

Yeah, that's what I thought - unfortunately it also quickly scrapes off the zinc coating - had a few start rusting here..
I think this year it will be a light going over with a flat scraper to get the worse off then a quick blast with the big propane blowtorch to burn the rest off

Before the advent of plastics and poly in hives the only cleaning everything I had got was with a scraper and blowtorch - killed, cured and cleaned.

 

[Millet]

Mine are all off and clean

Same here..the beginning of September they came of..cleaned and stacked in the shed ready for next year..

 

[enrico]

Good idea. I'll give mine a blast with the blowtorch for the really bad bits.

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Be careful using a blow torch on the excluders. It can expand the wires and expand them making the gaps inconsistent. Don't use too much heat!
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[Poly Hive]

I have never used a blow torch in my life. Must be a BBKA thing and they can keep it.

PH

 

[BMH]

Be careful using a blow torch on the excluders. It can expand the wires and expand them making the gaps inconsistent. Don't use too much heat!
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Oooooooh. Good point.

Im going to stick to my original plan of not removing them and not cleaning them! Seems to work ok!

 

[Tim.S]

I just get the pressure washer out - they come up like new.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Be careful using a blow torch on the excluders. It can expand the wires and expand them making the gaps inconsistent. Don't use too much heat!
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You just give them a quick blast - not heat them up to red hot, but even a slight heating can bugger up punched zinc QX's

I have never used a blow torch in my life. Must be a BBKA thing and they can keep it.

PH

SFA to do with BBKA, some of us have the imagination and sense to look at other people's ideas - beekeepers who were keeping bees long before I was born

 

[drex]

The bees go to all the trouble to coat everything in propolis with all its bactericidal etc properties, why would I want to burn it off?
It is a different matter if I have disease in my colonies however

 

[Poly Hive]

Common sense at last.

PH