Rendering Wax in my Old Honey Warmer - Will it Work?

[@JeffHorchoff]

I could not help but think of the children’s fable of the tortoise and hair, slow and steady wins the race. Some beautiful wax you got out of there, and 180° is a great temperature to render wax. God‘s peace brother.

[@josephrawls]

LOL ! At that temp it melts faster than it cools back down.

[@gunlinebees.3831]

That puppy does the job! We really like the look of the one that came out of the sheetrock pan.

[@josephrawls]

Thank you. I think Im going to set up a melting pan to drain into the pan.

[@esauer1014]

Thank you very much for this video sir!!! Great information!!! I hope the rest of your weekend goes well sir!!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you. You have a good one as well.

[@628DirtRooster]

Love that honey house!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@viahoneybees]

Tha know you for sharing this video, Joey. It gives me ideas!

[@josephrawls]

Thank you. I wish I would have seen your video before I finished this one.

[@iowalayensbeekeeping]

Thanks for the idea. I use a chest freezer to freeze frames and warm honey. I added a second heater element for melting wax. What wax I had laying around is now in convenient blocks.

[@josephrawls]

I glad I can be of assistance.

[@richardrbrynerjr.7912]

I do me wax by color for different uses, white for lip balms & yellow for lotion and cream, gold for candles brown for bees and black for compost, alien peace bee brother!

[@josephrawls]

That is good to know. Thanks

[@russellaymond312]

Thanks for sharing ,always good to see different options. Have a good day Joey.

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@arectechafterwork9772]

Love your music timer. 😊😊That melter looks like a great idea! I would be more comfy using a metal pot instead of the plastic bucket. If it's too hot to hold, might be ready to let loose and that would be ugly.

[@josephrawls]

I wish I could have used that video with the original songs. Yeah if had to get any hotter I was going to get something else. Ive poured boiling water into them with problems, but was still kind of worried. I thinking about making a larger meta tray like the one in the solar melter and also a metal catch pan.

[@rickyyeldell7262]

Thanks.

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@frankiewuebblingbees]

Good video

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@TracysBees8713]

Great video.

[@josephrawls]

Thank you.

[@eidodk]

180 is dangerously close to the point where you'll discolor it. It'll light on fire if you go above 205. Melting point is 150ish so don't go past 160

[@josephrawls]

This is 180 F. The flash point of beeswax is 399.9 F which is the same as 204 C.

[@eidodk]

@@josephrawls right. 185f is discoloration territory though... 185f or 85c. Melting point is still 150f or 65c

[@josephrawls]

@@eidodk That's good to know. Thanks.

[@rtxhoneybees]

It worked pretty good. Can you tell me what thermostat that is?. Mine is an aquarium type and only regulates up to 108f and reads up to 140. I have a dorm style frig that just broke that might be good for this.

[@josephrawls]

I put it in the description . Second from the bottom.

[@meloneycrews]

Thanks for sharing Joey!! Always good to have good tools out sleeve!

[@josephrawls]

Well now it.is the third from the bottom. lol

[@mocarp1]

Joey, your heat lamp link did not work for me. What was it that you used for the 2cd one?

[@josephrawls]

You may have to be signed in to Amazon. I had someone else try it and it worked for them. That link is for the black heat lamp.

[@mocarp1]

@@josephrawls I was logged on to Amazon, but it acted like it was looking up an order number & could not find it. (Your temperature controller link did work when I tried it as a test though.) Regardless, I was able to search based on the description in your replay. I thought it was some new fangled light bulb I had not seen before. For just honey warming, how well does the one heat lamp do for initial warm up or after you add a bucket or two? And for recovery after opening door? The white one is also 100 watts? You using the same setup in your "Coke" honey warmer?