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Title: What frames have mid-frame self-spacers?
Post by: ugcheleuce on January 02, 2014, 03:10:06 PM

Hello everyone

Can anyone here identify the frames in the image below? They have a self-spacer about halfway down the depth of the frame. What are these spacers called? Do you know of other frames that have them?

(http://i41.tinypic.com/2i8gpx0.jpg)

Thanks
Samuel

Title: Re: What frames have mid-frame self-spacers?
Post by: BlueBee on January 02, 2014, 04:33:29 PM

Hey, those are Robo spacers. ;) I use the same thing on my Jumbo frames. You don't want a really long surface area for the bees to propolize frames together on the big frames, hence something like this is a good replacement for the Hoffman spacers IMO. Actually I believe Brother Adam used the idea of a simpler spacer decades ago.

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