rubber bands to hold in brood comb

[Pond Creek Farm]

I have been reading about using rubber bands to tie brood comb into a frame, but I am not understanding how to do this.  I am converting from deeps to medium and expect to have a bunch of comb in the dead space between the bottom of my medium frames and the bottom of the deep box.  How exactly am I to tie in the brod comb into frames when I ultimately switch to the medium box?

[Kathyp]

i usually use about 4 rubber bands per frame.  i put them over the ends of the frame ahead of time.  i try to cut the comb to the size of the frame, which will be easier for you than when i do a cut out, then slide the rubber bands across the frame to hold the comb in.  the bees will patch it back to the frame.  the rubber bands  hold it in place until the bees can fix it in permanently.  some people run bands both horizontally and vertically.  i just run vertical bands and that seems to work fine. 

get the nice heavy bands.  it's better for you to have to remove them, than for them to break prematurely.

[CBEE]

Why are you putting the mediums back in the deep instead of medium supers?
Dont have enough mediums yet ?

[KONASDAD]

You use rubberbands when doing cutouts from a feral hive, not necessarily when converting from mediums to deeps w/ foundation or deep to mediums....unless i misunderstood...

[Ross]

Rubber bands work great for that.  Simply trim the comb to fit the frame.  Wrap rubber bands around the frame so that it incircles the frame top to bottom.  The comb simply sits on the bottom bar and is supported on the sides by the rubber bands, as many as needed to keep it from falling out.  You can cut comb out of your deeps and do the same thing.

[Pond Creek Farm]

Why are you putting the mediums back in the deep instead of medium supers?
Dont have enough mediums yet ?

I started two packages on deeps and they have about four frames of deep drawn out.  I did not want to knock them back, so I pulled all of the deep frames which had not been drawn out and put in mediums with starter strips.  (These bees are already regressed and come from 4.9mm cells).  When they draw out all of the mediums, I will put them in a medium box and, using the instructions I just received, rubber band the extra brood comb into other medium frames and fill out the box.