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Show NEW CAPPING-M.TER GOOD j Californian, Improving Implement ; Every Year, ReachOne That Is Perfect. I am sending a draw; of my capping cap-ping melter, the first t of which I made in April, 1906. have been using them and improvi them every season since, and hav melted the capping from more th a ton of flHBtKtO HAAUADF ( ) td nor am cnr- A New Capping-Meir. honey a day, getting from th, amount about 20 lbs. of wax. I haveieen making ma-king these different melters 1 on the same principle. The last o works perfectly, writes William E. teene of Imperial, Cal., in Gleanings ortee Culture. Cul-ture. The construction Is shownin the drawing. There is, first, a gaanized iron pan two inches deep, witla corrugated cor-rugated bottom, the corrugatios running run-ning crosswise. This Is 28 incbs long and 18 inches wide, and tapertdown to six inches at the end when the honey and wax flow out. At on corner, cor-ner, as shown, the constructioi permits per-mits of heating the knives in th water wa-ter of the tank below. The tank holding the water Isone inch deep at one end . and one 'lalf inch at the other end. This mfees a very small amount of water to hat. Under the water tank is solderei a false bottom, forming the hot-air ovmF which confines practically all of be radiating heat from the gasoline burner. burn-er. This false bottom is shown on a small scale under the main drawinf. The large hole In the center allowi the heat to spread over the entire boti torn of the water-tank. The air-space is about three-fourths inch, and there are braces to hold the water tank from sagging down on to the falsa bottom. I find that one burner of a gasoline stove turned as low as it will run, is sufficient to take care of all the cap-pings cap-pings which one can, remove in a day. I let the honey and wax run off together, to-gether, and after the wax hardens I remove it. Later I put it through a press and separate what little slum-gum slum-gum it contains. The water can be brought to a boi) in about 20 minutes. The only open- - ing to the water tank is at the right hand corner, where the 4x4-incb space is left for the knives. |