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How to save valuable honey and combs...
I have used many tricks, but in your case the best , may be:
Uncap the frames. Spray water on the crystalls or soak it into warm water,
I use pressure washer, It sweeps cappings away in seconds and add diluting water.
Then put the frames into the hive, and let the bees lick the honey over night. They lick perhaps 2 mm layer. Then again spray water onto crystals or soak into water. After that bees are able to clean about half of crystalls away and then they clean the rest . Follow what happens.
If you have flow on there and you put uncapped combs into hive, after 24 hours they are capped again.
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Very good system is too that if you have same size of brood frames, put uncapped frames between brood frames and after a week bees have cleaned the frames. First two frames amd later 2 frames and so on.
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Combs are so valuable that they are not meant to be destroyed when they are filled with honey. That beekeeping does not make any ense.