Add your sealer to your work surface and you are ready to begin.
First and foremost, turn off the red shut-off valve and the ball
valves.
Fill your pail with honey, keeping in mind that the temperature
of your room and your honey play a large role in how quickly the
honey moves. Attaching a heat lamp (available at a farm store
designed to keep chicks warm) to the pole will aid in warming the
honey and increasing the flow rate.
Place one straw on each of the male adapters. Turn on your red shut-off valve and each of the ball
valves. The honey will start to flow into the straws. Especially on the first set of straws you will see some
air bubbles, that is normal and unavoidable. You can squeeze that honey back into your pail if that is
unacceptable to you. The honey flows at a pretty consistant rate with the straws closest to the shut off
valve filling first. Fill straws to be within about 1/2” (1.27 cm) of the top of the straw. Stop the flow when
the straws are filled by either the shut-off valve or the individual ball valves. Small amounts of leakage
between the straw and the male adapters is normal.
