LYSON Honey Settling Tank 100 kg Premium

01 · WHAT IT DOES AND WHAT IT DOESN'T

It settles, but it does not lower the moisture

Resting separates by density, and that is why it works — nothing to do with filtering. The warmer the honey and the taller the tank, the sooner the bubbles come up; cold thick honey stretches the process into days.

What it does not do, and it is worth knowing before you buy: a settling tank does not dry honey. If it goes in above 20 % moisture, closing the lid will not fix that — you need a dehumidifier. The airtight lid is there for the opposite reason: honey is hygroscopic and, left open in a damp room, it takes water out of the air.

02 · THE TAP

An inch and a half is 40 mm of bore

The tap is stainless steel, 1½" (6/4", DN 40): forty millimetres of clear bore. That calibre is what lets thick or starting-to-crystallise honey through without the flow choking, and what lets you open and close half way to fill jar by jar.

The calibre of a tap cannot be deduced from the litres of the tank: you read it in inches and check it against the hose or filler you already own.

03 · THE VALVE, 50 MM UP

You have to raise it before you can fill

The outlet sits five centimetres above the base, and that has two consequences the factory sheet leaves out. First: standing on the floor, nothing fits underneath — no jar, no bucket. The tank goes on a table, a pallet or a stand, and that is what decides whether you work comfortably.

Second: the last few centimetres sit below the outlet, about six litres that will not come down on their own. You recover them by tilting the tank at the end of the batch.

04 · MOVING IT

Full it is 120 kilos, not a tank you carry

Empty it weighs 20 kg and full it is over 120. The PVC-coated handles are for positioning it, turning it and steadying it while it empties; not for lifting it loaded. The rule is simple: fill it where it is going to stay.

The rest of the finish follows the same line — a perimeter ring that keeps the lid from deforming, a silicone seal and metal clamps that fix it in seconds.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Seventy litres is a small batch: the question is not how much honey you have, it is how much you handle at once.