Embed wire into wax foundation

[local_beekeeper]

How to embed wire into wax foundation, any machine?

Thanks

 

[pargyle]

Just do a forum search for 'embed wire' ...

Bobs yer uncle ...

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28949&highlight=embed+wire

 

[local_beekeeper]

Just do a forum search for 'embed wire' ...

Bobs yer uncle ...

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28949&highlight=embed+wire

Thanks but...without frame?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think HM does - zig zag as in commercially available foundation - done on a jig using electrickery

 

[pargyle]

Thanks but...without frame?

Ahhh ... you'll need one of these then ...

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US1849331

 

[hedgerow pete]

no, all you need is a piece of ply wood larger than you wax sheet

whallop a nail in place where you want the wire to start and finish and one for each bend

look at a pre made sheet, say the wires go up and down and from this we need one nail at the start teo on the top and three on the bottom and one to finish.

once the nails are in place cut the heads off so they are just straight sided pins

put the wax sheet in place lace the wire over the top and all we have to do now is to use a standard electric embedder to do the rest


an electric embedder at its most basic is a stick of wood with four nails in it, two you connect to the negative wire and two , to the positive wire

when the power is on you will have four nails, lived up when they touch the wire they connect and there fore the heat from the currant flowing causes the wire to warm up and the tips of the nails push it down into the wax sheet

most people use an old mobile phone charger to be the power source, mine is 12v dc at .25amp an old nokia one I think