Zinc queen excluders

[crazy_bull]

Afternoon,

Who still sells these? The old style zinc punched excluders that are flexible.

Everyone seems crazed with the plastic ones, which are great until you want to clean them as i do in a vat of boiling soda water Zinc ones clean instantly, plastic ones distort and melt!!

Anyone know of a source?

Thanks

C B

 

[psafloyd]

Afternoon,

Who still sells these? The old style zinc punched excluders that are flexible.

Everyone seems crazed with the plastic ones, which are great until you want to clean them as i do in a vat of boiling soda water Zinc ones clean instantly, plastic ones distort and melt!!

Anyone know of a source?

Thanks

C B

http://www.beekeeping.co.uk/bee-hives/zinc-queen-excluder

 

[crazy_bull]

http://www.beekeeping.co.uk/bee-hives/zinc-queen-excluder

Thanks but these are solid as a rock bomb proof ones, i need ones that are flexible enough to roll a bit and go in my big boiler that has a circular top, might end up having to change my boiler....

But yes Bills queen excluders are last for ever kind of things.

C B

 

[Hivemaker.]

E H Thorn £5.89 +vat = £7.07 each,discount for larger quantity,but still rather expensive.

 

[OXFORDBEE]

Use Thorne's ones myself and not had problems with them. The're more robust than the zinc ones I've got which are quite old and starting to show their age. The steel ones are heavier than the zinc ones but still flexible.

 

[crazy_bull]

E H Thorn £5.89 +vat = £7.07 each,discount for larger quantity,but still rather expensive.

Thanks for that, when i spoke to one of the assistants at Stonleigh he thought they were only doing the plastic ones now, but i guess he was wrong!

C B