BestEquip Manual Honey Extractor Separator 3 Frame Bee Extractor Stainless Steel Honeycomb Spinner Crank. Beekeeping Extraction Apiary Centrifuge Equipment

The media could not be loaded.  For the price of this unit it’s a good next step, maybe not the final step for a growing beekeepers toolbox. You must be mindful of the equipments needs. When you get it, take out the 4 small screws that hold the gear box together and add some food grade grease to the gear mechanism. It will be dry (no lubricant) from the factory and the teeth on both sides of the drive are made of a non high carbon hardened steel (softer metal wears more easily) so without lubricant I would expect rapid and possibly catastrophic failure to the unit with not to much use. Remember it’s always important to lubricant your tool if you expect it to last for many years to come. Replacing the four screws is as simple as they came out although the housing mechanism only goes back together on the same 4 sides as it came apart. Be mindful not to strip your screws out. The plexiglas is completely removable and nice that way when you go to clean it afterwards. The drum is stainless type metal. It could be thicker but it will be perfectly fine for the money. The leg mounts are spot welded to the drum. Tighten, don’t over tighten them. The additional holes in the bottom of the three feet to affix to a surface will also make the unit more stable and less wear during use and I recommend that you use them if even bolted to a heavy duty pallet with a 3/4” topper floor. I couldn’t find any instructions in the box but that being said, pulling two strips of coating over the plexiglass top and screwing three bolts with washers into the obvious spots where legs would go and are shown in all the advertisements, tightening the bolt already threaded and started in the handle after placing the handle on the crank shaft and adjusting two wing nuts on the top that were installed at the factory is a complete no brainer that even the most backward thinking ding dong should be able to see from a distance. Everything else is already in place.In the video I put three used and recently repaired frames from one of our existing deep boxes and proceeded to shoot my video. Works as it says. To extract both sides of the frame in any centrifugal unit you will have to extract only one side of the frame at a time. The handle is removable from the top drive shaft. With a little MacGyvering one could instead possibly affix a wheel or gear and an electric belt driven motor and easily convert it but I’d use caution making it direct drive unless you include some sort of clutch engagement into the plan that also allows it to coast to a stop to save those softer metal gears in that drive box. All in all it’s fine for the money. There are more solid units out there. They are more than double and triple the price. Small and growing apiary’s will get some use out of this and if you grow your bee operation to a point, you won’t be using just a three frame extractor anymore anyway.That’s the “buzz” as I see it on this one.

Okay, so for the most part I think it's a good purchase. The unit does appear to be stainless steel and all the internal components fit together well and seem to operate rather effortlessly. Also, I don't know why people were complaining that the instructions were not very clear, this has to be one of the easiest assemblies that I've done very long time. The legs took less than 5 minutes to pull out of the box and assembled to the unit with me only doing it by myself. However, on the negative side, the following issues have presented themselves and I have only processed six frames of honey. 1) one of the supports that holds the legs is leaking through the barrel. The only way I could see this happening is if the tack welds that hold the support in place managed to burn a hole through the main barrel. The leak is not overly aggressive, however it does drip a few drops a minute. You can see the drop forming in one of the photos I am attaching. I think that this can be fixed with a little bit of e6000 or other type of sealant. Unfortunately, this is not something that I noticed before spinning my first few frames.2) the honeygate that is included with the unit is not the best quality. In fact, even after tightening, there is still the occasional drip past the o-ring. I suppose this could be fixed by going to a better quality o-ring. I'll have to see if I can find something. The bee in the above picture shows where the gate is leaking.3) the gears feel a little clunky. They do seem to work okay, however, they sound like they are grinding against each other. I'm not sure how long they are going to last. I suppose only time will tell.

For the money, for a beginner beekeeper, this seems like a good buy. It assembled easily and should work fine. A few things to consider:1) the legs are stamped sheet steel, and the edges are SHARP! I knocked the corners down with a file before I assembled it.2) the thread fit was super sloppy for the bolts that hold the legs on. I thought they might rattle loose during use, so I used some blue threadlocker.3) Some other reviews complained about the gears stripping out after one or two uses. I took the gearbox apart, and found that there was NO grease or oil whatsoever inside! The gears did look OK though, they are machined rather than injection molded, and medium hardness judging by the file test. I packed the housing with grease and re-assembled with some RTV for a gasket. The bearings are not sealed and it is possible that some oil from the grease will separate and leak out. If this becomes a problem, i can disassemble, clean, and re-pack with a food grade lubricant.disclaimer: I have not used this yet to spin honey, these are just first impressions.

Recomiendo montarlo sobre una superficie sólida más estable, ya que el par de soportes incluidos pueden ser no suficientes para la fuerza con que en ocasiones ha de girar la manivela, haciendo que se tambalee.Su funcionalidad en cambio es bastante buena, y ha sido una buena compra ya que el resto de alternativas en el mercado superar con facilidad el precio,saludos y paz