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Was looking at Dadant's website and they had an Extractor for $115.95 that is made in China. It was a two frame extractor but I only have 2 hives at this time so that looked like it would be great for my needs. I went ahead and ordered one with a bottling bucket and strainers for the bottling bucket. It took awhile for them to ship but I finally received the items. I went ahead and removed my honey from the supers and used the extractor. I thought you had to really turn the extractor hard for it to work. I ended up tearing up 4 of the 6 frames that were extracted. Just a good gentle turns works fine.
This is the inside of the China made Extractor. You do have to extract one side of the frame and then reverse the frame to extract the other side.

Here is two hive body size frames in the extractor
This is Super frames in the extractor at an angle.

Homemade Uncapping Tank


I went to Lowes and purchased 2 Rubbermaid containers to make an uncapping tank.	They fit well into the top of each other.

I took the smaller one and drilled many 1/4" holes in the bottom.	I have a net that I put in this container to catch the big stuff. Then I sit the smaller inside the larger container and this is where I uncap the frames. The honey runs out through the net and into the bottom container. It seems to work very well.