Wax melting experiment

Clearing the rubble in the beekeeper's house, I found a lot of old frames that are no longer suitable for installation in hives. Part of the wax is eaten by moths, part is simply spoiled. It's a pity to throw them away, because each frame contains a lot of wax. I decided to try to re-melt the frames and get wax, which in the future can be used for making wax foundations and candles.

Of course, I have no experience, as there are no special tools for re-melting, so I went the easiest way because it's just an experiment. I decided to just put the old wax in a bucket of water and boil this water over a fire.

Which I did. The wax floated to the surface.

After the water cooled down, it turned out to be such an ingot.

However, the ingot turned out to be dirty.

After cleaning with a knife, it has significantly decreased.

For further cleaning, it was necessary to re-melt the wax. In order not to suffer with cleaning, I put my ingot in a bag, put a stone in the same place, lowered the bag into a bucket and put it to boil for the second time.

You can see how the wax floats to the surface.

And all the dirt was left in the bag.

After the repeated procedure, the ingot became even smaller, but noticeably cleaner

For the wax foundation, the procedure will need to be done again, but I decided to stop there. I'll make candles out of this wax, so I won't need to filter the dirt anymore

In general, the experiment was a success. It will be necessary to collect more frames and melt more wax, but I'll tell you about it another time