Fitting metal frame spacers onto supers

[simonforeman]

I've bought some metal 10 frame spacers to fit to some of my supers.
Here gos with a silly question.... they are shorter than the inside of the supers by quite bit, so do you fit them in the middle and have a big bee space at either end of the super or fit 1 side and use some kind of a dummy board?

If anybody has a photo of them fitted and with frames in for me to see that so If he great thanks.

 

[Curley]

Hi Simon

I take it you mean castellations - 10 slots on a thin strip of metal?
Fit them in the middle - but if there is as big a gap as you say, you may have been sent/bought the wrong size. Usually I have found then to be a tight fit to the extent I have had to shorten them.

 

[Eyeman]

What is the difference in measurement between the spacer and the inside of the box?
Some of mine can have a gap of a few mm so nothing significant.

 

[Millet]

I bought a wooden hive a few years ago and i was sent castellations with the two supers.. i turned them upside down so the straight flat edge was up over..they where a tight fit with no gaps at either end.

 

[Curly green fingers]

I don't use them there a pain , I prefer to use my thumbs!. ???
Maybe not the best method you get stung sometimes.

 

[simonforeman]

Thanks for the replies guys..... they have a big gap either ends of about 10mm so I think I have the wrong size. I ordered for national so will contact supplier as looks to be their fault.

 

[For want of a better word]

Thanks for the replies guys..... they have a big gap either ends of about 10mm so I think I have the wrong size. I ordered for national so will contact supplier as looks to be their fault.

You have castellated spacers for WBC boxes

Ditch them!

 

[Swarm]

You have castellated spacers for WBC boxes