{"id":2819,"date":"2024-07-13T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:42:10","slug":"equipment-build-solar-wax-melter-broke-boy-swm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Equipment Build – Solar Wax Melter (Broke Boy SWM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broke Boy Solar Wax Melter – BBSWM<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This solar wax melter is one that was cobbled together in the time-frame of about 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 I call it the “Broke Boy Solar Wax Melter”.<\/p>\n

Commercially sold solar wax melters for the hobby market – are currently (2024) marketed at prices ranging from $170-$350.\u00a0\u00a0 For something that is essentially a box with a clear(ish) lid, and a tray.\u00a0\u00a0 There are various ways the wax is melted, filtered, and put into a container – depending on how much money you want to spend.<\/p>\n

My goal in building this melter – was to see how affordably I could build it, and it be effective.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After all – we beekeepers are notorious for being… uh… “Frugal”.<\/p>\n

Use what you have… maybe source things from garage sales.. or from thrift stores.<\/p>\n

I bought a fairly large (45 Quart) Styrofoam cooler from a retailer..\u00a0\u00a0 And a thick piece of plexiglass from a big-box home improvement store.<\/p>\n

A box-cutter blade was used to cut the Styrofoam to the size that allowed the plexiglass to fit on top – then foil tape was used to affix the “window” to the lid.<\/p>\n

Pots and a vegetable steamer cage – sourced from thrift stores are used for wax melting.\u00a0\u00a0 I line the steamer cage with paper towels, then fill it with the cleaned and dried wax cappings from extracting honey.\u00a0\u00a0 The steamer cage is then set into a larger pot to catch the filtered wax.<\/p>\n

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Broke Boy Solar Wax Melter – BBSWM <\/p>\n

This solar wax melter is one that was cobbled together in the time-frame of about 2012. I call it the “Broke Boy Solar Wax Melter”.<\/p>\n

Commercially sold solar wax melters for the hobby market – are currently (2024) marketed at prices ranging from $170-$350. For something that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,97,98,83,99,12,904,15,47,903,107],"tags":[946,214,947,945,518],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bee-yard","category-bee-yard-projects","category-beekeeping","category-bohemian-life","category-bohemian-utopia","category-crafts","category-diy","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","category-homesteading","category-projects","category-texas-master-beekeeper","tag-bbswm","tag-equipment","tag-free-energy","tag-solar","tag-solar-wax-melter","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240713_103246.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-Jt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}