beekeeping vlog connect to learn more don't forget to like share and subscribe channel this is how I render wax out of what is here small brood frames and a pile of other supers which have actually been underneath the brood box for the winter and I just removed them but the wax is likely to have pollen and brood debris in so not no longer any use for supers and honey so what I have is just a wallpaper stripper steamer and then from that you'll see a pipe which leads to this box which is just knocked together for piece of wood for the sides and a floor the going at the bottom and the dimensions a bit bigger than a brood box out of the front there is the hall which the racks will come out of into a cleans bucket and the other important thing we have is a waste bucket because it'd be a lot of debris so moment I just have this set up and the steamer switched on so once it's up and running we'll do small so this now is the brood box wax melting box full of super frames and if I pull one out yeah this is pretty typical of the kind of dirt and stuff in the in the super frame in my opinion no use for honey anymore but have you spent the wind trip under the brood box we all know melted out in render the wax down just waiting for the steamer to come up to the boil so while we're waiting for the steamer to come up to steam we can clean the booth the Super's so here's the one we just empty the frames out of them and then what we need to do is just go around and clean all the wax and dead bees and the brace come from inside from around the edges both top and bottom so just turn it over because it's still good a lot of mess underneath there and the way I do it is just by putting it on top with the green bin and scraping the stuff down into the green bin because it's all-natural and will decompose okay so while the steamers can receive I'm just giving off goodbye doing that so the steamers now came up to steam you can see that from the the steam was just coming out of here now what I do is at this point after the seared cop I have the front of the box lifted up so it's not level the reason being so that optelec alms really start to melt wax I want the wax and the condensed steam to run to the back now I'm about to having done that for about 10 minutes I'm now about to remove the wedge from the front so the box is facing down and whatever liquid inside will start running into the bucket so now they the wax is melted out this first super and what we will do is we will lift the lid and then start taking that the super frames out so I've taken it's the first set of frames out and as I did show use my hive tool to just scrape off the top bars and the bottom bars and this is what they look like there you can see that they're quite clean and this goes for all of them and they're ready for what be the next stage or the subject of the different time will be boiling them in a local boiler with some kitchen soda solution to really get them clean and hopefully free to any disease as a bacteria or pests so now I thought you I show you the end results that things have been tidied away the the box which was a steamer box is just they're draining drying out so these are only the frames are should being boiled and not boiled cleaned out of the wax and they're ready for boiling and this is the end result those of here I have a pot which is the the wax and also elements of water condensed steam and any any residue that was in there so that's organ there and this is a kind of rubbish that has come out old corms bits of pollen and the booth corn some elements of dead lovak but that's the kind of rubbish that you will see and it's better out of the hive than in now I'll show you what happens to this bucket and how I deal with it so I have here warming cabinet and the temperature is set for 70 degrees with the wax melting point that's about 65 and in there there are two of the buckets which contain the the debris and the wax and stuff from steaming and what will happen I will melt those and then I filter it so that's the warming cabinet and they are in process so you saw the warming cabinet and what happens is once at wax is completely melted and then bring it out and I just pour it through the filter chooser a sieve stainless steel ship sieve into this bucket normally put a little bit of rain water in the bottom I get rid of them even more debris and then I leave it to set and of course the wax floats on the water that every sinks to the bottom and once that's all done I end up with the blocks of wax something like this so here we have now is the end result of all lots of wax extraction and it is three blocks quickly and ready for use it will fill drink or exchange and there are sixteen pounds of wax there out of thirteen supers so pounding it a couple of ounces out of each super a good result you