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sean
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 10:14 am Post subject: Blowtorching a super?
Is super the right word? The bit that the frames were suspended in, anyway. I'm supposed to blowtorch it I believe. How vigorously are you supposed to do this?

Tavascarow

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Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 10:49 am Post subject:
If you hold the torch so the tip of the flame is an inch or two away from the wood & work slowly over the whole area that's enough. The heat generated will kill any bugs & pests, you don't need to incinerate. Once the propolis & wax start to bubble you know its done. I find the hot air paint strippers easier to use than a torch especially with the fan spreader.

sean
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 10:51 am Post subject:
Thanks. I was a bit worried about over doing it.

arvo

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Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 11:25 am Post subject:
I found reasonable success with a torch but harder to use and you do get a bit of charring.

mochyn

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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 11:48 am Post subject:
I misread this as blowtorching supper.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 12:19 pm Post subject:
I believe singed bees may be on the menu. A.

arvo

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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 12:20 pm Post subject:
oddly I've done that previously too. had to use a microwave though.

Tavascarow

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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 1:17 pm Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

I believe singed bees may be on the menu.
A.

Kids of a friend of mine when they heard me talking bees to their father & heard me saying about smoking them thought I rolled them up in a rizla so I played along & said they crackled & spat a bit but tasted loverly.

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