any advice or recommendation on a new beeswax extractor is appreciated.
Hello and welcome to the Flow forum!
Just to clarify, are you extracting honey, or wanting to render beeswax? If you have empty honeycomb from a beehive, just take it out of the frames, remove any wires, then use the magnifying glass at the top of the page to search for crock pot. I have tried many ways of extracting wax from old frames, and this is by far the simplest and best. You don’t even need a new crock pot, just check your local thrift stores. If you want to use it for food afterwards, be sure to use a crockpot liner, because wax is very difficult to remove once it has melted onto a surface!
Hey Dawn, Thank you for your response, but I am looking for a beeswax extractor, the actual machine.
I have never seen, nor heard of such a machine. But then I am just a small-time beekeeper, not a big commercial outfit. If it exists, I would think it would be very pricey!
If you are looking for a tool to melt the wax from the frames, the best devices I’ve found seem to be using steam.
My local beekeeper club has a massive stainless steel cylinder / pot that you can rent, but it was tedious to clean, takes a lot of space and was difficult to transport.
Then I was pointed to something similar as is shown in the following video.
It’s a stainless steel “funnel” that allows you to connect a hose from a steam generator (like they are used to remove wallpaper). And the nice part is that you can just add hive boxes on top to build a small tower for the frames.
There are DIY versions that use a stainless steel kitchen sink in a similar way in case you want to build it yourself.