Where to get plastic plugs?

tlozo · January 05, 2009, 06:37:10 PM

I need a source for 1" plastic plugs that I would use for alternative entrances or vent holes in supers. Mann Lake has 1 1/2" which seem too large. Thanks

fermentedhiker · January 05, 2009, 06:39:46 PM

are these 1" holes already drilled out, or are you planning on making them?

Keith13 · January 05, 2009, 06:41:14 PM

I believe the caps from plastic milk jugs are 1" maybe those might fit.

Keith

Kathyp · January 05, 2009, 07:49:52 PM

duct tape BUT make sure you put something over the sticky part over the hole, or bees will get stuck to it :-)

Beaver Dam · January 05, 2009, 08:21:46 PM

Try your local hardware store. If I'm not in mine once a week, they call and check on me.LOL. If they don't have it they can get it.

tlozo · January 05, 2009, 08:39:38 PM

"are these 1" holes already drilled out, or are you planning on making them?"

I am planning to make them.

LAC · January 05, 2009, 08:48:47 PM

tlozo,
I can'nt post links, but if you do a search for cap plugs there is a company called Mocap that offers frees samples.

Brian D. Bray · January 05, 2009, 09:20:39 PM

If you must drill holes and then want to plug them Use the plastic caps for 1/2 inch PVC pipe. It should just slip into a 1 inch hole.

fermentedhiker · January 05, 2009, 11:14:39 PM

since you're planning on making them, why not find a workable cap material at the hardware store or wherever and then drill a hole to fit them. A lot easier to make the right sized hole than to go the other way around. Wine corks are good for around a 3/4" hole. They are my preference, but that's because I have lots of them lying around.

Sounds like Brian found the right size for your 1" holes though.

EasternShore · January 06, 2009, 10:49:19 AM

Would Corks work? Good reason to drink wine..ARGH!!!!

Robo · January 06, 2009, 11:15:30 AM

Wine corks work great :-D

BEES4U · January 06, 2009, 11:45:41 AM

Cap plugs are trash at construction sites. The are used to protect the threads on pipe.
Ernie

EasternShore · January 06, 2009, 06:47:30 PM

Niice set up Rob!!
How do you like those hives?

Robo · January 06, 2009, 08:46:11 PM

Quote from: EasternShore on January 06, 2009, 06:47:30 PM
Niice set up Rob!!
How do you like those hives?

They are some of the nucs I'm wintering. I really like the polystyrene nucs and hives. The bees seem to do real well in them. The hives are ~10F warmer than wooden hives in the winter, they build up much faster and use much less stores in the process.

rob...

bug baffler · January 12, 2009, 10:39:55 PM

Hi tlozo

google for us plastics
then use their search on their site for: tapered polyethylene caps

I'd post the url but I don't have enough posts yet.

they go for 3 or 4 cents ea. I've used them with good success although the orange color fades in less than a year.
latter, bug baffler