We've got Wax!

All those wax caps, that held the honey tight in the honey comb, were melted off, solidifed, then saved in plastic bags.  Finally there was enough collected, that Don decided it was time to purify it so we might be able to make some candles, or lip balm, or maybe some salve.  
The process to clean up the wax was a multi-step process that involved a few trips to the kitchen supply store to get pots and sieves and cheesecloth and more.

The collected wax caps

 

 

 

Don started by melting down the wax caps, in a big kettle.  You can see the caps had lots of bee debris that needed to be cleaned out.

After taking out lots of dead bees and other solids, the wax was allowed to solidify into a large disk

The disk was broken up, put into a double boiled and melted down to get poured through some cheese cloth to take out the final debris.

Some nice clean wax, ready to turn into candles and more.