Last year we cobbled together a solar extractor, having sorted out the apiary fencing last week I thought it was a good excuse to tidy up the rest of the apiary.
Having mucked out all the gunk from the extractor tray and unclogged the "filter" (posh name for a few holes) I whipped out the wax we've collected so far and set about trying to clean it up on Sunday.
My High tech rendering facility just starting out:
Earwigs, bits of bee and old comb cells very much in evidence I fear.
Almost done:
Where old tights go to die in the Nellie Household:
Filtered and ready to go into blocks:
The final haul, a kilo of wax:
And just for comparison, against a block of honeycomb wax I did after extracting the honey last autumn:
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