foundation in wired frames

[johnnie1uk]

How do you fix the foundation in the wired frames, is there a tool or something?

 

[Davelin]

Yes, it is like a little rowel wheel that you roll along it. Alternatively use a 12v transformer to pass a current along the wire to melt it in.

 

[pargyle]

Yes, it is like a little rowel wheel that you roll along it. Alternatively use a 12v transformer to pass a current along the wire to melt it in.

Well ... I thought the 'rowel wheel' - Crimping tool ? was for tensioning the wire in the frames and then, after installing the foundation, you use a 12v current to heat the wires and melt them into the foundation.

I stand to be corrected as I'm foundationless and just have crimped wires in the frames but I've seen my mentor melting the wires into his home made foundation using a car battery and a rheostat ...

 

[Hivemaker.]

How do you fix the foundation in the wired frames, is there a tool or something?

You could use a spur embedder or electric current to heat the wires and embed them into the wax.

http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/embeddingtools.html

 

[Michael Palmer]

I use this one and embed thousands of wires a year. Takes about 5 seconds per wire and really sinks the wire into the wax. I wouldn't use any other kind.


http://www.kelleybees.com/Shop/43/Hives-Components/Foundation
Accessories/4288/Electric-Embedder

 

[johnnie1uk]

Thanks everyone, that's opened my eyes a bit more .

 

[Midland Beek]

Everyone breath a sigh of relief when this geezer gets his hands on even the most crappiest beekeeping book which tells him the most basic of beekeeping things.

 

[johnnie1uk]

Everyone breath a sigh of relief when this geezer gets his hands on even the most crappiest beekeeping book which tells him the most basic of beekeeping things.

I tried looking at the book I have and there are some things that are not properly explained, also by asking on here, there are differences of opinion of the best way to do things, which is interesting, because in a book you only have the authors opinion, for instance I ask "which bees" - I am in Spain but the book is in English and assumes I am in the UK, so it is only by others experience I can learn what is best.
May I ask why you don't have any hives.

 

[Midland Beek]

May I ask why you don't have any hives.

I have half a dozen colonies in MD.