Hot Wax Dipping - Bee Hive Woodenware

This shows how we cook woodenware at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes in a mixture of 20% Microcrystalline wax and 80% Paraffin wax. This process cooks all of the moisture out of the wood and when you take the wood out of the tank, it sucks the wax into the wood, sealing it from decay and warp-age . . . no more bee hive scraping and painting every couple of years.

[@TheBoxingBee1]

Slow process if you have 4000 boxes.

[@arendey4446]

Did you make the wax container on top of the burner (or had it built) or was it bought as is?

[@3Beehivesto300]

I am not a fan of a lid when dipping. The moisture needs to escape. Once the wax gets saturated with moisture the foam starts. The faster the water can leave the less foam.

[@KatrinMelite]

Interesting

[@SMILIES69US]

I've never seen this before. What kind of wax are you using? Parifin ?How long is the dip? How long does the box stay weather proof compared to painted box. Im tired of painting boxes and see the value in this. Get me started. Thanks!

[@3Beehivesto300]

You are crazy… the liquid level is crazy high…

[@figandspade11]

Sooo... what about boiling the woodware in beeswax?

[@parkstalley3641]

Bees wax costs more than paraffin & micro-crystalline waxes and the bees awx doesn't perform as well IMO.

[@Dwight6769]

thanks for posting What size burner(s) BTUs might be recommended? I have gotten my stainless steel vat completed; a friend welded it up for me and I will using a brick lifter to remove the hot boxes. After complete cool down of the wax tank how might it be restarted aka melting the solid block or does one drain the wax from the tank into smaller molds before cooling down in preparation for the next run? Thanks

[@parkstalley3641]

Tried a cheap burner with 60,000 BTU but it took 1.5 to 2 hours to heat up, so I spent the big bucks and got a 200,000 BTU burner which heats it from hard cold to 300 degrees in an hour.
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[@NealPageNPPHOTO]

Show and.. No info. Waste of your time and everyone else's, with no information to accompany a video that serves no purpose.

[@coldfinger459sub0]

It’s self-explanatory doesn’t take explaining anybody can figure it out. You only use natural works for you wouldn’t be hives and all you’re doing is Dipino letting them sit taking them out letting them dry and putting them into the use..
Don’t need instruction manual for that .