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asprince

January 02, 2011, 07:23:46 PM
I spent yesterday and today cleaning up old Pierco foundation and hive bodies. The weather was nice but the job was nasty. I scrape off the wax and then buff them with a wire cup brush on an angle grinder. Anyone have a better way?

I have 26 packages coming in the spring.

Steve
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resembalance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

rdy-b

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January 02, 2011, 07:45:44 PM
 I just srape with hive tool and the bees do the rest-I think they like the way
that they smell like a bee hive-RDY-B

hardwood

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January 02, 2011, 08:18:23 PM
Sometimes the scraping actually removes too much wax and the bees won't build the comb back properly (I've had this happen many times). Re-coat with wax and you'll be fine.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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asprince

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January 02, 2011, 08:39:15 PM
I always recoat. I was looking for a faster/better way to clean them up.

Steve
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resembalance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

AllenF

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January 02, 2011, 09:01:57 PM
If you are going to recoat with wax, then you can strip the wax off maybe by soaking in boiling water to melt off all the crud. If the heat ain't too much and warps it.   

rdy-b

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January 02, 2011, 10:03:25 PM
  try a box by just nocking off the rough stuff and let the bees do it-
  you will be surprised- :lol: RDY-B
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