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dpence

September 09, 2009, 01:33:44 PM
Hello all,
    Anyone using these new frames?  Looks like they might be handy.

https://products.kelleybees.com/wtkprod/detail.aspx?item=745

David

iddee

#1
September 09, 2009, 03:11:31 PM
I can just imagine trying to put new wax in them in about five years, or whenever needed.

Have fun cleaning the old wax out.
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Kathyp

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September 09, 2009, 03:21:25 PM
i would think that a hot tool, like a wood engraver would make clean out easy.  one of those welding things? 

or buy new when they get that gunky....

it's not the wax that frustrates me, it's the propolis.  i buy new frames when they get to hard to clean. 
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Speech in Kansas, December 1859

ski

#3
September 09, 2009, 03:41:58 PM
I find that heating an old hive tool woth a propane tourch for a minute allows me to clean up several frames before I have to reheat.
Ski

hardwood

#4
September 09, 2009, 04:59:19 PM
I think that if the top bar has a slit that goes all of the way through for the length of the bar (almost) it'd be pretty easily broken.
Scott
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dpence

#5
September 10, 2009, 12:23:01 AM
Most certainly they would not be the best for wax, but maybe plastic. 

indypartridge

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September 10, 2009, 07:23:48 AM
I was helping at a beginner beekeeping class earlier this year and these were the frames used for the workshop portion of the class. I think they are really slick - much, much easier than dealing with wedges and crimped wire.
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