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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13196" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>An interesting article Nick, beekeepers are incredibly innovative always inventing new things, a lot of them prove no good but every so often something comes along that works well.</p><p></p><p>During your time at Airborne did you ever work in the wax rendering room? Their setup would have been modelled on the Robins system, very similar to the diagram in your article. I got the job a few times, melting the wax off excluders and there were thousands of them, and melting down "rummies" (old combs) The wax got poured off the top and as slumgum built up it was put into sacks and squeezed in the presser. It was an incredibly hot job but done mid winter so a bit of a relief from the sometimes bitter cold outside. The tank also served for mixing sugar syrup, the presser removed and a big electric stirrer put in place.</p><p></p><p>The slumgum after being pressed was dumped in a pile outside, trailer loads of it which some people took to put in their vege gardens. It was pretty hard to get every drop of wax out of it and the problem was that when dumping it, it was boiling hot and any wax was melted so you could not really tell if there was still any wax in it until it had cooled and any wax gone hard. I remember working away one day when Jasper came bursting in with a chunk of wax in his hand he had found in the slumgum "It's like finding ****dy nuggets of gold" he said, he was not a happy chappy 😮</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 13196, member: 13"] An interesting article Nick, beekeepers are incredibly innovative always inventing new things, a lot of them prove no good but every so often something comes along that works well. During your time at Airborne did you ever work in the wax rendering room? Their setup would have been modelled on the Robins system, very similar to the diagram in your article. I got the job a few times, melting the wax off excluders and there were thousands of them, and melting down "rummies" (old combs) The wax got poured off the top and as slumgum built up it was put into sacks and squeezed in the presser. It was an incredibly hot job but done mid winter so a bit of a relief from the sometimes bitter cold outside. The tank also served for mixing sugar syrup, the presser removed and a big electric stirrer put in place. The slumgum after being pressed was dumped in a pile outside, trailer loads of it which some people took to put in their vege gardens. It was pretty hard to get every drop of wax out of it and the problem was that when dumping it, it was boiling hot and any wax was melted so you could not really tell if there was still any wax in it until it had cooled and any wax gone hard. I remember working away one day when Jasper came bursting in with a chunk of wax in his hand he had found in the slumgum "It's like finding ****dy nuggets of gold" he said, he was not a happy chappy 😮 [/QUOTE]
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