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  • From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] uncapping methods?
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:56:53 -0400 (EDT)

A colleague of mine from Germany was visiting a few weeks ago.  We took her over to the NCSU Bee Lab where they were extracting honey.  She said she does like to use a heat gun to uncap but it only works well on new wax that has only ever had honey in it.  If the frame was ever used to raise brood the heat gun method did not work very well.

 

I bought an uncapping knife at the meeting this weekend.  I like the hot knife but have found them to be unreliable.  Lately I have been using a cappings scratcher but look forward to giving my new knife a go next time.


On July 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM "birdcr AT concentric.net" <birdcr AT concentric.net> wrote:

>
> Folks,
> Today we harvested around 30 pounds of honey. We did all the
> uncapping with long bread knives. Afterwards I posted some videos
> from the yard today after we returned the wax cappings and spilled
> honey back to the bees. Anyway I found this Youtube video of a guy
> using a heat gun (which I already have) melting the caps very
> quickly and clean. See the video at
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eym8rxYeLTc&feature=related
>
> Does this un capping method seem like a good idea? I never heard
> of it before. I'm sure you would barely heat up the honey.
>
> My blog has a photo of me with a frame of honey and other stuff
> including thousands of bees in videos recycling the honey and
> cleaning the cappings for us. see www.rlephoto.blogspot.com



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