The Sticky Machine Makes Another Appearance.
Now you can own your own ‘non working’ orignal Sticky Machine. Only $430 right now on ebay, a fraction of the original $3000 price tag. Unfortunately it sounds like the seller had as many problems with the machine as others I’ve talked to about it.
Having filled quite a few honey sticks by hand, it’s not really surprising there are some problems with it. The viscosity of the honey can vary significantly from jar to jar, at least enough to throw off any sort of timing for filling and sealing. Temperature of the heating elements plays a big part in sealing time. Too cool and it seals slowly, too hot and it may melt though the plastic breaking the seal. It’s really a pretty tricky operation to get right, even by hand. So with apparently little or no feedback in the system I’m not sure how one would get it to consistently work.
Naseem Dawood on 10 Dec 2007 at 11:33 pm #
Dear Mr.Tim,
the ebay site says the “stick Machine” has been sold.
If not, I would be interested to buy this non-working automated machine, and try make it working at my end.
If You can take trouble of confirming from the seller if another unit is available ? Or yet another member contact who has trouble with the machine ?
I will be interested to take a risk to loose a few bucks, and try making it worthwhile!
Thanking you.
Naseem Dawood.