In this video Laurence Edwards demonstrates the Abello Solar Wax Extractor, a solar‑powered device for rendering beeswax cappings into clean wax blocks. He explains how the extractor consists of an insulated glass box that admits sunlight but retains heat, a stainless‑steel tray with a double‑baffle system, and a stainless‑steel collection unit at the bottom. Wax cappings are placed in the tray, the sun warms the system throughout the day, and the wax melts, passes through the baffles separating it from honey, and solidifies into a pure beeswax block while honey drips out. Edwards highlights the simple design, rust‑proof stainless‑steel construction, and the effectiveness of the baffles in keeping debris out, showcasing the final clean wax product.
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Today I'm rendering down beeswax using the power of the sun. So what we have here is the Abello Solar Wax Extractor. In a bucket I've got tons and tons of wax cappings ready for rendering down, and you are not going to believe just how simple this product here is. All you do, take your wax cappings, place it into the stainless steel tin inside, let the sun warm up this insulated glass box that lets the light in but doesn't let the heat out, and at the end of the day you come back and you get really nice rendered beeswax. So beautiful wax cappings, prime wax cappings. We are gonna empty that into the solar wax extractor and just let the sun do its business. So you can see it's got a really nice simple design, metal prong that comes up there and holds up the roof. And then you can just see in the middle here, you've got your metal tin, got a baffle down the middle there and another baffle at the bottom. Then at the very bottom, we've got our collection unit, stainless steel again. So none of this is gonna rust. All of this will warm up though using the power of the sun over the day. to render down that beeswax. Look at those beeswax cappings as well. Aren't they absolutely beautiful? I said bring me a bucket of cappings to Abello and they brought me the finest wax cappings going. I love it. So the idea is to get all of the wax into the top tray to enable it to go through the double baffle system. So there you go, you can see we've got all of the beeswax cappings there, beautiful wax cappings provided by Daniel from Abello into the stainless steel tray. So you can see all of that wax is rendered down now. It's gone through the baffle. Separated from the honey. So I'm making a massive mess here. All of the honey is dripping out, but you can see all of that wax is rendered down into a really beautiful block there. But you can see the baffles have worked and kept the majority of the cocoons or any kind of nasty bits out of it, and I'm just left with some really nice clean beeswax.
