Heat Gun Uncapping Honey

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Heat gun uncapping honey. Heat gun uncapping on. Its also the case that if you need the wax an uncapping. Well I have used it and I must thank the forum member who put me on the idea.

Frames dont drip and virtually zero cappings in your honey very clean. Related Reads System Generated. Another in the honey uncapping tools arsenal is the heat gun.

Uncapping honey frames with heat gun. So yes the honey and wax are returned to the hive so nothing is essentially wasted unless you are going into winter in which case there is a problem with so much honey retained. Help Support Beekeeping Apiculture Forum.

May 25 2013 121452 pm Anyone perfect this yet. This entry was posted in Building Stuff GADGETS Heat Gun HONEY Honey Extraction. Scrape the cappings and extract as you have been but let honey wax all go into the bucket with out straining.

Thread starter The Poot in Somerset. Uncapping honey with a heat gun. The heat from this is very gentle - the wax is so thin that it melts and pulls away rapidly from the centre.

The first 2 worked great. Now if you use the heat gun the yield is almost ¼ or more less than it otherwise would be using the more traditional tried and tested methods. Its true that youre losing a product in not having wax from the cappings.