The Cheapest Wax Foundation! Making It Yourself | 7-10-2022 Aussiebeekeeping  

Awesome little invention and great investment. Thanks for the information 👍🐝🍯

I like it. I've not seen them before. I'd think about buying . And I guess the more you practice, the better you get at taking the sheet off without ripping it. 😊👍

Hello from the States. I don’t have any damned bees yet. However, my 1.5 hectares, mixed bananas and coconuts, await in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines. My hives of choice will be the comfort hive design and as cheap, ie simple, as possible. My staff and neighbors are also simple folks. I will buy this type of foundation making devise. Thanks for the demo. I will employ all broken pieces to train my bees to the thin bars and in swarm catching. Thanks again. My journey will start, on the ground in 2024.

hi, this is the old method that existed +-100 or more years ago. ( I found once an old book about this on google books) I have used an old model of this from an old beekeeper he modified the model a very little bid. He made a kind of wooden structure so that the air could blow under the machine. By doing so he increased the cooling time (and had no risk to burn the table) But when you then add a ventilator, you can reduce more the cooling time. Be carefull when you get the foundation out of the machine. This is normally not inox but copper of even alumilium ( so easily damaged) so you should use some wooden spoons or ( like I did) a compressor and use compressed air to get the founding out of the machine. I'm using Dadant and at the end I found it a really time consuming process and looked for something else) but if it works fine for you, then this is fantastic.

Do you rinse the soap off of the wax sheets? How about before wax reheating?

I copied a frame with silicone caulk many layers, but it shrank, now I make small cell wax foundation ; )

Can you give us a report on how well the bees accept the foundation given the possible contamination by the detergent? Also compared with plastic foundation waxed with paint roller? Thanks for showing this option, the pressed steel roller variant is a lot more expensive.

Looks like a great piece of equipment. Can you tell me the cell size, please?

How thin is this. And which country are you in ? which country

Have the bees been working them?

What are these sheets used for? You say "foundation sheets". You're not talking house foundations, right?

All that dishwashing liquid goes back into the molten wax?

I think a roller does better than a press. it looks like the press prone to tear but save more on wax.

and were did you get the foundation press from thanks

Where cani buy one

450 $ is far from cheap ...