Pollen patty mixer 50L

01 · WHY IT MIXES SLOWLY

Seventeen turns a minute, and cold

The gear motor is 0.55 kW (0.75 HP) at 1,370 rpm with a 1/80 reduction: at the arms that is about 17 turns a minute. Mixing this slowly is not a limitation, it is the point. The mix does not heat up, and heat is precisely what degrades the proteins and vitamins in a pollen substitute and what forms HMF on the sugar. A batch mixed cold keeps what you paid for.

02 · HOW IT IS BUILT

Gas-strut head and braked castors

At the centre sits the support for the 50-litre bowl and the arms that stop it turning. The suspended part carries the gear motor, the control panel with start/stop button and an emergency switch, and at the back the articulated lever that raises and lowers the head with a gas strut: no lifting to get the bowl out. The four braked castors let you move it round the workshop and park it where it belongs.

03 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Check two things before buying. The electrics: it is single-phase at 230 V, so it fits any workshop without three-phase. And the space: the base is 600 × 600 mm and the height goes from 830 mm retracted to 1,275 mm extended, so you need that vertical clearance to raise the head. The rest is routine: bowl out, scrape and hot water at the end of each batch. And a note on scale: a 50-litre bowl is around 60 kg of patty per run, enough to supply a whole apiary in one go rather than mixing by hand batch after batch.