4 bags for wax available for rendering

[Hami Archer]

Hey folks,
Attached is the pic. I have 4 bags of wax available for rendering if anyone likes to do it.

Thanks

[Andre Kruglikov]

Hi Hami,

I am interested.

Thank you 

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[Hami Archer]

Sure. 

I am in Fremont, South Sundale.

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[Hami Archer]

Text me on 510-857-2301 and we will coordinate the pick up.

[Gerald Przybylski]

Hey,
It occurs to me that there's wax, and there's wax.

When I extract honey, I let the cappings drain into the tank for a day or so.
Then I spread a couple of pounds on an inner cover of a strong hive, and place a
shim or box on the inner cover, and the top cover on top of it.
The bees clean all the honey off the wax.  If there's any honey left on the wax after 24 hours,
just mix the stuff around and put it in your wax melter the next day.
Caution:  once I had small-hive-beetle larva get a start under a rather heavy pile of wax.
Best to at least stir daily. 
Giving the honey back to the bees that way means no sweet wax-rinse water, alas.
(some beeks use a press to squeeze "all" the honey out of the wax. I've never tried that)

By the end of this month, solar wax melters should live up to expectation again, as days get longer
and the sun higher in the sky.

A solar wax melter can be cobbled together using a large picnic cooler paired up with a clear
glass or plastic cover.
Caution: In summer the inside of the cooler can reach temperatures way above 212ºF,
so DO keep a pan of water inside the cooler to hold the temperature down. Check it often.
The plastic on the inside of the cooler will deteriorate due to overheating above the boiling point.
The lining will crack and won't hold water any more.  You've been warned.
On the positive side,  very often you can spot an abandoned or fell-off-the-truck cooler
by the roadside for Free.   You don't have to sacrifice the favorite one you paid $$$ for.
I've found a couple over the past 10 years, and passed by many more.

Then there's the other wax:
We should cycle out our brood comb every three to five years. It'll be really black by then.
(DON'T CYCLE OUT THE NICE WHITE WAX. It's good for a lifetime)
That Brood comb has only a small amount of wax in it compared to cappings which are mostly wax.
Especially when I can't count on the sun, I use a steamer-setup to extract the wax from  brood comb. 
Pots and sieves dedicated to wax melting.
The sieve fits snugly in the pot.
The bottom of the sieve is an inch or two above the bottom of the pot.  
A cup or two of  water in the pot.
Insert sieve, and fill with broken chunks of comb.
Cover with a pretty tight lid.
"Simmer" on the very lowest heat... just enough to get a very slow boil going in the center of the pot.
The black-wax heats and becomes saturated with water. The displaced wax slowly dribbles out.
After a few hours turn off the heat, and let the wax solidify on top of the water.
Remove the disk of wax,
and repeat. 
Sometimes the wax disk is really thin.  You can color classify the wax too.

When you have a pound or two, put a couple of cups of water in the pot, and a bunch of the disks of wax in  the pot. Simmer on a low heat for a while. Water vapor bubbling through the wax will mix it up, so that some of the coloration of the wax will dissolve into the water.   Keep the level about half the depth of the pot. No sieve.
Turn off the heat, and let the wax solidify. 
The bottom of the puck will have black gunk on it that you can scrape off, and cycle back into the melter.
The yellow wax you're left with will be pretty clean, and have a nice aroma. (clasify by color)

Industrial operations actually use an acid-water solution and steam heating to "bleach" the wax.
It'll get a lot whiter, and probably loose a lot of the nice aroma.

Personally I put the black "slumgum" residue in the land-fill trash, just in case it harbors pathogens
that might survive the cooking and persist in the garden.   Perhaps overly conservative that way.

That's my 2¢

[J R]

How much do you want for them . Joel 510260 5992 Text meif still available 

Thanks 

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On Mar 5, 2025, at 11:41 PM, Hami Archer <hami....@gmail.com> wrote:

Text me on 510-857-2301 and we will coordinate the pick up.

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[Hami Archer]

Claim to Andre. It was give away.

Thanks

On Mar 6, 2025, at 5:25 PM, 'J R' via The Alameda County Beekeepers Association <the-alameda-county-b...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

How much do you want for them . Joel 510260 5992 Text meif still available 

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