#contaminatedwax

The biggest problem are the decades using chemicals in the beehive, virtually all wax on the market is contaminated. And we can’t use it.Beekeeper pesticide bottle found in a dead bee yard on a greek islandPesticide residues in wax (study from Erik Österlund)There are few places on earth today that have wax free of residues of different kinds. Chemical residues influence life in different ways. In very small amounts probably in such a small way the bees can handle it if they are strong enough in other traits. Especially difficult to handle and to have knowledge about are the synergic effects that can take place between different chemicals. The best thing we can do is to take efforts to have as clean wax as possible. It may be difficult, but the obvious method is to use but cappings wax for making new wax foundation and renew combs in bee colonies we strongly suspect are contaminated. Another source is wax from areas where miticides are not used. Watch though out for other types of contamination.Another problem is a fatal error that occurred in the foundations that are being sold.In order to explain I must start further back.Ed and Dee Lusby (Ed was the Dee’s husband, he sadly passed away recently, Dee sais because of too much stress - I can feel it) started to convert their 1000 colonies to the 5.05mm cell size in the 80s, after intensive study of ancient beekeeping literature. As they work with 4 to 5 boxes the whole year long, they had to change 40.000 frames. Unbelievable! For 2 people! They were so convinced of what they had found in the literature and believed the cells in use were too large for the bees. They had no mould to make the foundations, and were able to convince the owner of the company Dadant who made them a roll of steel, engraved by hand! Pure adventure.When they had their bees at 5.05 mm, the problem with the Varroa and tracheal mite suddenly disappeared, but other illnesses kept decimating the remaining colonies. They decided to change everything again, now to 4.9 mm and behold, the disease disappeared. And it remained this way until today. Dee now has again nearly 1,000 colonies, without any treatment since over 25 years.And I have to repeat that it is not just the size of the cell, but many other factors that need to be changed, although without changing the cell size, it is not possible.This means that one and a half tenths of a millimeter helped the bees to defend themselves against the disease.Everything after remained below the 2% threshold.Now back to the foundations on the market.Take a pocket rule and measure 10 cells on your foundations in 3 directions,. And, amazingly, the cells are longer on one side on all commercially available foundations, even the foundation moulds. e.g. 5.4 mm x 5.4 mm x 5.7 mm, Why?Because the foundations are made with a roller and the wax is elongated in the direction of the rotation. And the foundation moulds are also made from these foundations.So we have errors of up to three tenth or more difference in cell size throughout ALL our hives. And at 0.15 mm Dee was at the point when the diseases disappeared. It seems to me as if it was a big stress factor for the bees otherwise why they have the hexagonal cell? Because it is accurate and divides space best. Of course, one can say the bee does not build accurately, but what we impose her (and constantly), is too big of a mistake not to cause her stress. Erik from Sweden, one of us who has the most experience convincing a company in Sweden to produce 4.9 mm foundations with exact dimensions. Another advantage is that it is illegal in Sweden to use poisons in the hive and therefore the wax is virtually unspoiled.Adriano from Italy made a wax residue testing, and fluvalinate could only be detected in very low concentration. It is lower than the lower limit, which is displayed in a Hohenheim investigation.the company with the 4.9 mm foundations in Sweden: 4.9 mm foundations Of course it is best to use your own wax if unspoiled.I then got to hear, by a foundation manufacturer that produces cheap moulds of silicon in Germany, that I shouldn’t be more Catholic than the Pope! But it is not so simple for the bees.Then I got in touch with Benjamin Graze a few years ago, of the company Graze, and convinced him to make his 4.9 mm moulds with the 4,9mm foundations from Sweden (he always made 4,9mm moulds for Africa but with the mentioned error)Now you get moulds in the right 4.9 mm dimensions from him too and also at Alfranseder, who after my suggestion also works with the Swedish model. One of our colleagues has made very good experiences with it.Here you see how we make our foundations with do it yourself water-cooled silicon moulds. With two moulds, we make about 80 foundations per hour. The problem is the supply of wax heated in a water bath. As we take the foundations out when they are still quite warm, they shrink and will measure 4.8 to 4.85 mm.This is outstanding for advanced small cell bees.So we have room and can use 4.9 or 4.8, depending on the need. foundation making:Attention! ALL foundations of 4.9 mm dimensions which are sold in Germany or elsewhere in Europe (except for the company in Sweden), have the mentioned error. -> List of the foundation available in the european market.And be careful with "bio wax". This is very frequently from Africa (which has a peculiar smell), and as the wax there has a higher price than the honey, wild swarms just to get burned to gain the wax. Unbelievable, and is then offered as a bio!Once we're at it - here you can see how you can make your own silicone moulds. Read the full article

The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.complete embossing device with roller:-> visit our shop - How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: scope of delivery:scope of delivery:- rolling system with silicone rollers mounted on a base plate - both rollers driven by gears - bearing blocks of hardwood - compression springs with 4 adjusting nutsadditionally required material:- 2 plywood panels 10mm thick 30.5cm x 50cm chamfered on one narrow side as a worktop - 2 wooden strips 30.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2.5 cm to support the worktops (2 strips are already attached to the roller to support the worktops) - 8 countersunk wood screws 3.5 x 30mm for fastening the worktops to the wodden strips - 2 red light bulbs 250W with base and cableThis is how it looks with the attached worktops (not included in the scope of delivery):The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.- How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: complete embossing device with rollers: with a new cell geometry that is better accepted by the beesAt the moment only available in Langstroth size (420mm x 200mm) and Dadant size (420mm x 260mm) and in cell sizes of 4.9mm and 5.1mm.

The biggest problem are the decades using chemicals in the beehive, virtually all wax on the market is contaminated. And we can’t use it.Beekeeper pesticide bottle found in a dead bee yard on a greek islandPesticide residues in wax (study from Erik Österlund)There are few places on earth today that have wax free of residues of different kinds. Chemical residues influence life in different ways. In very small amounts probably in such a small way the bees can handle it if they are strong enough in other traits. Especially difficult to handle and to have knowledge about are the synergic effects that can take place between different chemicals. The best thing we can do is to take efforts to have as clean wax as possible. It may be difficult, but the obvious method is to use but cappings wax for making new wax foundation and renew combs in bee colonies we strongly suspect are contaminated. Another source is wax from areas where miticides are not used. Watch though out for other types of contamination.Another problem is a fatal error that occurred in the foundations that are being sold.In order to explain I must start further back.Ed and Dee Lusby (Ed was the Dee’s husband, he sadly passed away recently, Dee sais because of too much stress - I can feel it) started to convert their 1000 colonies to the 5.05mm cell size in the 80s, after intensive study of ancient beekeeping literature. As they work with 4 to 5 boxes the whole year long, they had to change 40.000 frames. Unbelievable! For 2 people! They were so convinced of what they had found in the literature and believed the cells in use were too large for the bees. They had no mould to make the foundations, and were able to convince the owner of the company Dadant who made them a roll of steel, engraved by hand! Pure adventure.When they had their bees at 5.05 mm, the problem with the Varroa and tracheal mite suddenly disappeared, but other illnesses kept decimating the remaining colonies. They decided to change everything again, now to 4.9 mm and behold, the disease disappeared. And it remained this way until today. Dee now has again nearly 1,000 colonies, without any treatment since over 25 years.And I have to repeat that it is not just the size of the cell, but many other factors that need to be changed, although without changing the cell size, it is not possible.This means that one and a half tenths of a millimeter helped the bees to defend themselves against the disease.Everything after remained below the 2% threshold.Now back to the foundations on the market.Take a pocket rule and measure 10 cells on your foundations in 3 directions,. And, amazingly, the cells are longer on one side on all commercially available foundations, even the foundation moulds. e.g. 5.4 mm x 5.4 mm x 5.7 mm, Why?Because the foundations are made with a roller and the wax is elongated in the direction of the rotation. And the foundation moulds are also made from these foundations.So we have errors of up to three tenth or more difference in cell size throughout ALL our hives. And at 0.15 mm Dee was at the point when the diseases disappeared. It seems to me as if it was a big stress factor for the bees otherwise why they have the hexagonal cell? Because it is accurate and divides space best. Of course, one can say the bee does not build accurately, but what we impose her (and constantly), is too big of a mistake not to cause her stress. Erik from Sweden, one of us who has the most experience convincing a company in Sweden to produce 4.9 mm foundations with exact dimensions. Another advantage is that it is illegal in Sweden to use poisons in the hive and therefore the wax is virtually unspoiled.Adriano from Italy made a wax residue testing, and fluvalinate could only be detected in very low concentration. It is lower than the lower limit, which is displayed in a Hohenheim investigation.the company with the 4.9 mm foundations in Sweden: 4.9 mm foundations Of course it is best to use your own wax if unspoiled.I then got to hear, by a foundation manufacturer that produces cheap moulds of silicon in Germany, that I shouldn’t be more Catholic than the Pope! But it is not so simple for the bees.Then I got in touch with Benjamin Graze a few years ago, of the company Graze, and convinced him to make his 4.9 mm moulds with the 4,9mm foundations from Sweden (he always made 4,9mm moulds for Africa but with the mentioned error)Now you get moulds in the right 4.9 mm dimensions from him too and also at Alfranseder, who after my suggestion also works with the Swedish model. One of our colleagues has made very good experiences with it.Here you see how we make our foundations with do it yourself water-cooled silicon moulds. With two moulds, we make about 80 foundations per hour. The problem is the supply of wax heated in a water bath. As we take the foundations out when they are still quite warm, they shrink and will measure 4.8 to 4.85 mm.This is outstanding for advanced small cell bees.So we have room and can use 4.9 or 4.8, depending on the need. foundation making:Attention! ALL foundations of 4.9 mm dimensions which are sold in Germany or elsewhere in Europe (except for the company in Sweden), have the mentioned error. -> List of the foundation available in the european market.And be careful with "bio wax". This is very frequently from Africa (which has a peculiar smell), and as the wax there has a higher price than the honey, wild swarms just to get burned to gain the wax. Unbelievable, and is then offered as a bio!Once we're at it - here you can see how you can make your own silicone moulds.

The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.complete embossing device with roller:-> visit our shop - How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: scope of delivery:scope of delivery:- rolling system with silicone rollers mounted on a base plate - both rollers driven by gears - bearing blocks of hardwood - compression springs with 4 adjusting nutsadditionally required material:- 2 plywood panels 10mm thick 30.5cm x 50cm chamfered on one narrow side as a worktop - 2 wooden strips 30.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2.5 cm to support the worktops (2 strips are already attached to the roller to support the worktops) - 8 countersunk wood screws 3.5 x 30mm for fastening the worktops to the wodden strips - 2 red light bulbs 250W with base and cableThis is how it looks with the attached worktops (not included in the scope of delivery):The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.- How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: complete embossing device with rollers: with a new cell geometry that is better accepted by the beesAt the moment only available in Langstroth size (420mm x 200mm) and Dadant size (420mm x 260mm) and in cell sizes of 4.9mm and 5.1mm.

Silicone matrices with the new cell geometry to build foundation moldsFirst, some colleagues will wonder why we now offer silicone matrices. The answer is quite simple.The growing group of beekeepers, who work with small cells following the system of Ed&Dee Lusby, urgently need perfect foundation in small cell size. And above all, we can not rely on conventional wax, because almost all the wax is high contaminated by the chemicals that are applied in the bee hives. Thus every beekeeper urgently needs its own wax cycle.And the foundation that is offered on the market until now is of very poor quality. The new cell geometry:Dee Lusby writes in her webpage that one should usefoundation without pronounced cell walls. Well I made tests and to my surprise came out the following:I added to several hives complete supers with 11 frames. Alternating foundations with the new cell geometry and foundation like the swedish model, which has cell imprints similar to what is used anywhere. A swedish, a new one, a swedish, a new one ……. all the box like this. It was used the same wax and the same cell dimensiones between 4,8 and 4,85mm. All this with a good nectar flow. Next day all the hives had built combs in the frames with foundation of the new geometry and the swedish ones were not built. In order to make it possible that every hobbyist can build his own foundation mold, we now offer silicone matrices with the new cell geometry.Infos about our silicone matrices - The matrices are made from a silicone which has excellent release properties. Thus, the release of the molded and cooled wax foundation sheets is unproblematic. . - available cell sizes (shrinking of wax when cooling down is taken in account): 4,87mm – 4,9mm – 5,1mm . - sizes of the matrices: all sizes between 420mm (width) x 260mm (height) . Now we can offer special productions in 4,9mm and 5,1mm cellsize in all measures which are not bigger than 420mm width and 400mm height in the new cell geometry. . - The matrices are reinforced with a fabric mat to exclude twisting. - We offer to the matrices a gluing set with which you can stick these bombproof on aluminum or similar materials. . Video with adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. . The gluing set consists of a primer and a two-component glue with adhesive instructions. . - Other utensils you need to glue the matrices: Acetone, a wide spatula and a mixing vessel for the glue, sandpaper and a cutter . Video with gluing tests and adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. - distance of the upper board to the lower board of the mold to glue the matrices is 6mm plus adhesive thickness (upper and lower together approximately 1mm) plus foundation thickness (0.7mm) The mold should have a device with which one can regulate the spacing of the upper to the lower board to change the thickness of the foundation sheets. . - all the matrices you can buy in our online shop. Delivery about 2 weeks plus shipping time . - prices: Normalmaß (german) 350mm x 200mm 122 € Zander (german) 400mm x 191mm 129 € Langstroth 420mm x 200mm 139 € Dadant Blatt 420mm x 260mm 159 € adhesive set 39 € . other sizes on request outside canary islands without taxes VAT (IGIC) including commercial invoice available in our online shop

Silicone matrices with the new cell geometry to build foundation moldsFirst, some colleagues will wonder why we now offer silicone matrices. The answer is quite simple.The growing group of beekeepers, who work with small cells following the system of Ed&Dee Lusby, urgently need perfect foundation in small cell size. And above all, we can not rely on conventional wax, because almost all the wax is high contaminated by the chemicals that are applied in the bee hives. Thus every beekeeper urgently needs its own wax cycle.And the foundation that is offered on the market until now is of very poor quality. The new cell geometry:Dee Lusby writes in her webpage that one should usefoundation without pronounced cell walls. Well I made tests and to my surprise came out the following:I added to several hives complete supers with 11 frames. Alternating foundations with the new cell geometry and foundation like the swedish model, which has cell imprints similar to what is used anywhere. A swedish, a new one, a swedish, a new one ……. all the box like this. It was used the same wax and the same cell dimensiones between 4,8 and 4,85mm. All this with a good nectar flow. Next day all the hives had built combs in the frames with foundation of the new geometry and the swedish ones were not built. In order to make it possible that every hobbyist can build his own foundation mold, we now offer silicone matrices with the new cell geometry.Infos about our silicone matrices - The matrices are made from a silicone which has excellent release properties. Thus, the release of the molded and cooled wax foundation sheets is unproblematic. . - available cell sizes (shrinking of wax when cooling down is taken in account): 4,87mm – 4,9mm – 5,1mm . - sizes of the matrices: all sizes between 420mm (width) x 260mm (height) . Now we can offer special productions in 4,9mm and 5,1mm cellsize in all measures which are not bigger than 420mm width and 400mm height in the new cell geometry. . - The matrices are reinforced with a fabric mat to exclude twisting. - We offer to the matrices a gluing set with which you can stick these bombproof on aluminum or similar materials. . Video with adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. . The gluing set consists of a primer and a two-component glue with adhesive instructions. . - Other utensils you need to glue the matrices: Acetone, a wide spatula and a mixing vessel for the glue, sandpaper and a cutter . Video with gluing tests and adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. - distance of the upper board to the lower board of the mold to glue the matrices is 6mm plus adhesive thickness (upper and lower together approximately 1mm) plus foundation thickness (0.7mm) The mold should have a device with which one can regulate the spacing of the upper to the lower board to change the thickness of the foundation sheets. . - all the matrices you can buy in our online shop. Delivery about 2 weeks plus shipping time . - prices: Normalmaß (german) 350mm x 200mm 122 € Zander (german) 400mm x 191mm 129 € Langstroth 420mm x 200mm 139 € Dadant Blatt 420mm x 260mm 159 € adhesive set 39 € . other sizes on request outside canary islands without taxes VAT (IGIC) including commercial invoice available in our online shop

Silicone matrices with the new cell geometry to build foundation moldsFirst, some colleagues will wonder why we now offer silicone matrices. The answer is quite simple.The growing group of beekeepers, who work with small cells following the system of Ed&Dee Lusby, urgently need perfect foundation in small cell size. And above all, we can not rely on conventional wax, because almost all the wax is high contaminated by the chemicals that are applied in the bee hives. Thus every beekeeper urgently needs its own wax cycle.And the foundation that is offered on the market until now is of very poor quality. The new cell geometry:Dee Lusby writes in her webpage that one should usefoundation without pronounced cell walls. Well I made tests and to my surprise came out the following:I added to several hives complete supers with 11 frames. Alternating foundations with the new cell geometry and foundation like the swedish model, which has cell imprints similar to what is used anywhere. A swedish, a new one, a swedish, a new one ……. all the box like this. It was used the same wax and the same cell dimensiones between 4,8 and 4,85mm. All this with a good nectar flow. Next day all the hives had built combs in the frames with foundation of the new geometry and the swedish ones were not built. In order to make it possible that every hobbyist can build his own foundation mold, we now offer silicone matrices with the new cell geometry.Infos about our silicone matrices - The matrices are made from a silicone which has excellent release properties. Thus, the release of the molded and cooled wax foundation sheets is unproblematic. . - available cell sizes (shrinking of wax when cooling down is taken in account): 4,87mm – 4,9mm – 5,1mm . - sizes of the matrices: all sizes between 420mm (width) x 260mm (height) . Now we can offer special productions in 4,9mm and 5,1mm cellsize in all measures which are not bigger than 420mm width and 400mm height in the new cell geometry. . - The matrices are reinforced with a fabric mat to exclude twisting. - We offer to the matrices a gluing set with which you can stick these bombproof on aluminum or similar materials. . Video with adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. . The gluing set consists of a primer and a two-component glue with adhesive instructions. . - Other utensils you need to glue the matrices: Acetone, a wide spatula and a mixing vessel for the glue, sandpaper and a cutter . Video with gluing tests and adhesive instructions click here for german language and spanish language here. - distance of the upper board to the lower board of the mold to glue the matrices is 6mm plus adhesive thickness (upper and lower together approximately 1mm) plus foundation thickness (0.7mm) The mold should have a device with which one can regulate the spacing of the upper to the lower board to change the thickness of the foundation sheets. . - all the matrices you can buy in our online shop. Delivery about 2 weeks plus shipping time . - prices: Normalmaß (german) 350mm x 200mm 122 € Zander (german) 400mm x 191mm 129 € Langstroth 420mm x 200mm 139 € Dadant Blatt 420mm x 260mm 159 € adhesive set 39 € . other sizes on request outside canary islands without taxes VAT (IGIC) including commercial invoice available in our online shop

The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.complete embossing device with roller:-> visit our shop - How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: scope of delivery:scope of delivery:- rolling system with silicone rollers mounted on a base plate - both rollers driven by gears - bearing blocks of hardwood - compression springs with 4 adjusting nutsadditionally required material:- 2 plywood panels 10mm thick 30.5cm x 50cm chamfered on one narrow side as a worktop - 2 wooden strips 30.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2.5 cm to support the worktops (2 strips are already attached to the roller to support the worktops) - 8 countersunk wood screws 3.5 x 30mm for fastening the worktops to the wodden strips - 2 red light bulbs 250W with base and cableThis is how it looks with the attached worktops (not included in the scope of delivery):The idea of offering beekeepers who are not so skilled in crafts an alternative to making their own foundations has been maturing for a long time. With the new embossing device, this is now very easy.- How does this work? First you have to make flat sheets of wax, which is easily done by dipping a sheet of plywood two or three times in liquid wax. The video shows how to do it - very simple. The wax sheets will detach themselves easy from the plywood, which must be the size of the foundation.- what do you need for that? On the one hand you need the silicone matrices offered here and on the other hand a rolling device also offered here. We have decided to offer the rollers here as well, because what is available on the market as cheap goods has, to our astonishment, errors in the concentricity of the rollers of 4 to 5mm!!!!. And in any case, both rollers should be driven, which is given by 2 gear wheels in our roller device. - how to proceed? The prepared flat sheets of wax are heated evenly with 2 red light lamps, each with 250 watts. This can all be seen in detail in our video and is pretty quick. When the middle wall has reached approx. 40°C, it is placed between the upper and lower part of the silicone matrices and the closed matrices are slowly driven through the rollers with the handwheel and then back again. If the wax temperature is correct and the pressure on the roller springs is set correctly (approx. 15 turns of the pressure spring adjuster), the wax foundation is perfectly embossed without cell distortion and can be removed very easily without a release agent. - Finished!Silicone matrices for embossing foundations using rollers: complete embossing device with rollers: with a new cell geometry that is better accepted by the beesAt the moment only available in Langstroth size (420mm x 200mm) and Dadant size (420mm x 260mm) and in cell sizes of 4.9mm and 5.1mm.