Mould for making Nicot cell cups (50 cups). Silicone. images
Finished cell cups are similar to Nicot cell cups! Silicone mould (template) for 50 cell cups. Designed for making natural wax queen cell cups. The mould is made from high-quality food-grade silicone, helping ensure that bees do not reject the finished cups.
This mould is made from high-quality food-grade, platinum-cured silicone. The raw material for our moulds is produced in the USA, unlike cheap moulds made from Chinese technical-grade silicone using a tin catalyst. Cheap moulds made from poor-quality raw materials have a distinctive smell that repels bees. As a result, queen bees will not lay eggs in such cell cups. Only a high-quality mould made from safe materials helps ensure that queen bees accept the finished wax cell cups.
The process of making cell cups is quite simple: first melt the wax until it becomes liquid, then carefully pour it into the silicone mould (matrix). Next, lower the matrix with the wax into cold water so that the wax hardens more quickly. After that, removing the finished cell cups from the mould is easy.
The full process of making cell cups at home can be viewed in detail in the video:
