Wick Cord for Sealing Honey Drums

75 .00 € - 77 .50 €

MJB7764-10

Wick Cord for Sealing Honey Drums

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75 .00 € - 77 .50 € 77 .00 €

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The wick cord for sealing is an essential solution to ensure an airtight seal for your honey drums and other liquid or viscous products. Specifically designed for beekeeping, this cord is ideal for sealing honey drums, bee feed syrups, and other products that require additional protection against moisture, contaminants, and spills.

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Details of Wick Cord for Sealing Honey Drums

What is at stake in that joint is not a spill: it is the honey taking up moisture. Honey is hygroscopic, and a badly closed drum gains water from the air.

Gasket cord of flock and mixed fibres sheathed in polypropylene thread, for sealing the lids of honey drums. In rolls of three thicknesses.

01 · WHAT IT REALLY PROTECTS

Moisture, before spillage

The cord sits in the channel of the lid and the lever ring compresses it against the rim of the drum. That is where the seal comes from.

And the underlying reason to look after it: honey is hygroscopic. A drum that breathes gains water from the air, and past 19-20 % moisture fermentation stops being a hypothesis. The gasket protects the number that decides whether that honey is sellable.

02 · HOW MUCH YOU NEED

The sum per drum

A 220-230 litre drum is around 60 cm across, so the perimeter is about 1.9 m. Allowing for the overlap, count on 2 metres per drum:

Thickness	Roll	Approximate drums
8 mm	400 m	About 200
10 mm	300 m	About 150
12 mm	225 m	About 110

If your drum is a different diameter, measure the rim and multiply by 3.14.

03 · WHICH THICKNESS

The channel decides, not preference

The thickness has to fill the channel of your lid: too thin and it never compresses, too thick and the ring will not close. Measure the channel, or measure the cord you took out.

It is a consumable: the cord takes the impression of the closure and is never the same again. Every time you open a drum to empty it, a new gasket goes on when you close it.

04 · HOW IT GOES IN

No twisting and no overlapping

Cut the length, seat it in the channel without twisting and butt the two ends together. Riding one end over the other leaves a step, and the step is where it escapes.

Then close the ring tightening evenly, not all at once from one side: the compression has to be even all the way round.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the roll of cord:

✓ FITS	Lid gaskets on drums of honey, syrup and other thick liquids.
✕ DOES NOT FIT	Reusing the old gasket: it is a consumable.
⚠ NOT INCLUDED	The drum or the lid.

TECHNICAL DATA

Product	Wick cord for drum gaskets
Composition	Flock and mixed fibres
Sheath	Polypropylene thread
Colour	Grey
8 mm	400 m roll
10 mm	300 m roll
12 mm	225 m roll
Usage	About 2 m per 220-230 l drum
Reference	MJB7764