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🕯️ Beeswax Rendering: From Cappings to Clean, Sellable Wax

How raw wax cappings, burr comb and old comb are collected, rendered and purified into clean beeswax, and how to avoid the scorching and contamination that ruin a batch.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

Raw wax cappings pile up inside a nested double-boiler pot, melt into a molten pool, and trickle out through a spout, a filter cloth and finally into a collecting jar — while heat, water-bath safety and filter fineness decide whether the batch comes out golden and clear or scorched and gritty.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Melt rate and scorch risk both scale with heat power, but a water bath caps the wax's temperature near water's boiling point, while direct heat has no ceiling. Filter fineness trades flow speed for how much floating debris reaches the jar.

🎮 How to Use

Raise heat power to melt the cappings pile faster, toggle the water bath on and off to see the temperature ceiling change, pick a filter cloth, and watch the melted-percent, temperature, batch status and jar clarity stats update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Because cappings wax has never held brood, it renders down almost white-gold and needs only a light strain — while dark old brood comb often needs two or three rendering passes before it's clean enough to sell.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D double-boiler rig where raw wax cappings melt into a rising pool, trickle through a spout and filter cloth, and collect in a jar — heat, water-bath safety and filter fineness together decide whether the batch stays golden and clear or turns scorched and gritty.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install