okay so today I'm testing out a magnetic stirrer this is a very inexpensive thing
you can a lot of different companies make them as some people make them
themselves I just bought this one and I thought I'd just do a quick demo on it I
like to mix things up without stirring them with a spoon and sometimes you
might want to leave something stirring for a long time and you're not gonna
stand there stirring it with your spoon so I also recommend that you get a nice
collection of Pyrex glass beakers to stir up your whether it's sugar water or
something amendments for your bees or anything that has to be precise and
should be well blended and they have a little magnetic pellet that comes with
it it's a stayer pellet I recommend you get one that's a little longer than this
I'm just playing this for you so you can hear how noisy it is and of course most
of the sound is coming from the palette itself the unit is really quiet so it
doesn't actually start turning the pellet until you get up to about Oh a
third of its power and then of course you can back it out and slow it down if
you want to it also has a maximum rpm efficiency where if you really spin it
up when there's fluid in there the pellets was gonna go off to the side so
again this is not a high end magnetic steering this is just something
inexpensive that I found but what I thought I would test it on today is
what's the thickest fluid that I mix chemicals into and that's gonna be your
water and then I'm gonna add two to one sugar now if you've ever added two to
one sugar for your honeybees that takes a long time to blend and it's also a
thick sugar syrup so I thought you know that's the thickest thing I ever stir so
I'm gonna test it out on this let me spin this up a little and there it goes
off to the side all you have to do is back it down a little and the magnets
pull it back in these pellets do have a magnet inside of them and of course they
are repelled by the spinning magnets that are down inside this unit but as I
said before if you make sugar water that's one thing
but two to one is really thing so I'm just gonna add that into this beaker and
we're gonna see how well the stirrer manages that so twofold good method for
testing that out and also just watching sugar granules blend into the warm water
of course you want to heat the water up a little bit otherwise that you're gonna
have a really hard time getting the sugar crystals to resolve this is a
regular table sugar
now this stirring pellet was included with it I recommend going shopping and
getting a little longer pellet that you can stir at a lower rpm but that won't
move more fluid most of you will want to be using more fluid than this a larger
beaker especially if you're any kind of beekeeper which is what I do
you're not gonna mix things in high volume with these I think the max is
about a half gallon container and one of the reasons that I recommend beakers for
these is because the glass is thin and flat and sits very close to the motor
any distance that you create between your fluid holder and the motor of
course you're going to possibly lose the connection with the magnet there and the
strain won't be as strong
so it's working I don't know what else to say about it it actually does store
the heavy syrup and you can see it's that early 2/3 power
and if you've ramped the power up and get the RPMs up it just can't handle it
it's gonna spin off to the side
and I thought we'd dripped some food coloring in here and see how quickly
it's blending and how much of the liquid it's moving it's pretty subtle
but the good news of course is whatever you're mixing if it has a very slow
dissolving process you can just set this on your kitchen counter or wherever you
use it and just leave it stirring these things don't lose much use much power
and you can just check back on it from time to time even while I'm making this
video this unit is still stirring the sugar water which later is going into my
observation honey bee hive but two to one is what we use in the fall and we
don't need anything that can stir anything thicker than this so I'm pretty
satisfied with it I think if you're looking for something to stir up whether
you're adding essential oils or something like that to your bee feed I
think these are a pretty good method for making sure that it's nice and blended
before you put it in those feeders this is the box it came in magnetic stirrer
ms 500 thanks for watching if you're looking for magnetic stirs I
guess these are a lot of fun to have around and they definitely do the job
thanks for watching as always and have a great day