Heres how to wire a Langstroth hive frame and embed the foundation wax. Your frames may be different (might have a slot at top and bottom) but I think this will work with different frames. Just make sure the wire is tight! This wire I think is stainless steel, and I heated it with those two electrical wires I showed and the power supply in the background, my supply is slow to heat up, but yours may be quick so experiment to see how long it takes to embed the wire, you dont want to slice up your foundation sheet into 4 pieces! sorry about the bad lighting and the sniffing, I have a cold, in summer!
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@MrGgorann I’m not sure, it won’t matter very much anyway. ?
Hello,
What is the thickness? of the stainless steel wire? 0.5 mm or 0.6 mm?
@MrGrzv It’s a bit time consuming but you do it in the off season (Winter) and if you put some music on and sit down for an hour you can get through quite a? few. The bee boxes I use hold 10 frames each, each hive can have 1 to 5 or 6 boxes, if there are enough flowers around.
Looks like a lot of manual work. How? many of these are necessary for an average family?
Can any power supply be used to do this or will this? direct short blow them up? What voltage is being used? How many amps?
Hey, if you want to make 70 more videos I can send you? some empty frames!!
@GreenMountainBuffalo Yes, to embed them into the? wax.
So..is the heating of the wires necessary or not? ?
@brokenshackles101 Yes you can have it any size you want, but usually the brood chamber has full depth frames. The Frame in the video is not full depth. The “board” of wax however was full depth so I had to trim it to size. The board is called foundation wax, or foundation sheet. You should be able to get it from any good bee? supply store/website for about $1 a sheet.
Does it matter how big your brood chamber is? You cut yours to size. Can I make mine any size I want? I have never seen a board of wax like that. Where? did you get it from?
Nice? work, I do it just like this. Greetings from a Hungarian beekeeper!
@chevydmax04 Yes apologies for that, it’s just the camera being confused about the lighting when I’m? moving around.
what the hell is with the light going in and? out, can’t see half of what your doing.
wow!it’s great!?
wow!it’s great!?
wow!it’s great!?
Thanks for this. I love the idea of heating the wires to get the? foundation in… clever!
Do you mean a power pack as in one of those car jump-start things? I’m not sure about those, I suppose if its 6-12V it could work, and as for the current again I’m not sure,? to be safe don’t go above 1 amp, I think that’s what can kill or hurt a person?
Can you use a small DC power pack and also what current rating is ideal??
It’s just a DC power supply!
Anything that can put out 6-12V DC will work, just be safe around exposed wires.?
I mean the power supply?
What is it called though.. I would? really like to wire my own frames.
Ah well? thats great! Glad to have helped.
sorry helpful, typing to? fast
This video was very heplful thank you! My father-in-law and I were putting some frames together for his bee hive and we were trying to find some video on how to wire them. we found one but he didnt like it so i clicked yours and he said yeah thats? it. We had some Father, daughter bonding time and i learned something too lol. So he asked me to put the rest of 9 or 10 together, so thanks to your video I Now Know what i am doing lol