Help finding part

[Andy SprouleParticipant @andysproule22368]

By any chance could someone tell me where I can buy handles like these have searched the net with no luck?Approx eight inches long by 2 inch diam.

[Andy SprouleParticipant @andysproule22368]

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Go on, give us a clue what it's for, I don't immediately recognise it.

Mike

[TrevorhParticipant @trevorh]

Looks like a plug and socket for the cables

trevor

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

handles for an Electric Chair ?

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Bicycle spares? it does look like it was a plug of some kind repurposed.

[Andy SprouleParticipant @andysproule22368]

Its the handle of a device that is used to treat honeybees by vaporizing oxalic acid.May be made up specially have been searching for something similar but no luck.

[Tim StevensParticipant @timstevens64731]

It looks to me like a device made in very small numbers*, out of Delrin rod or similar, so it should be fairly easy to make something similar (or even very similar if you need interchangeability). Or it could be anodised aluminium, and apart from the anodising just as easy to copy. If only we knew what went on inside it. It can't be just a handle, or the wire/pipe going in one end would come out the same colour …

* I expect that the demand for oxalic acid vaporisers is fairly small, after all.

Regards, Tim

[Richard MarksParticipant @richardmarks80868]

Get in touch with Clive Hartland, he should be able to help.

[Andy SprouleParticipant @andysproule22368]

Thanks for replies.Tim its a handle come housing to hold the device the black cable is 240v in, the orange 240 volt outThe device is mounted on a metal frame which then goes down inside the plastic handle.I thought the plastic may have come in two parts so I could bolt it on to the frame.Will make it out of delrin I think.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I have never used an Oxalic acid vaporizer, I see them advertised quite often. I do trickle treat Oxalic liquid into the gaps of the combs, but this means stripping a hive down to the brood chamber. I now use a soft pad type Varroa treatment which the bees immediately break into small pieces and tip out of the front door! They seem to do quite well and my Varroa drop is quite small. The Varroa are sometimes picked up by bees from visiting plants and flowers that are visited by bees from other Apiaries. The nearest to me must be about 3 to 4 miles away. It is wild bees that can be a problem so i make sure I collect all swarms and house them and treat them.

Clive

[Andy SprouleParticipant @andysproule22368]

Hi Clive,this is the Sublimox type 30 seconds per box you don't have to open hive and no harm to Queen or workers.Sorry for talking about beekeeping on an engineering forum.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Try Icko. They market the things, so they should be able to supply parts. I sublimate from below with my home made varrox type.

Alternatively, being as you already know what it is, why not try the beekeepingforumdotcodotuk? Hivemaker will know, I daresay.

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Bees are interesting too.

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