At 05:50 PM 1/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have recently been getting prices for various plastic foundations, as I
>have several thousand old frames that I want to get back into service.  I
>have found that pierco makes a plastic foundation, there is one called Rite
>cell that Mann Lake offers,  one called plasticell from Dadant,  and I seem
>to recall from letters to this list that there is one called permadent (I
>haven't found someone selling that yet--anyone know?)   I am not interested
>in duragilt, as the plastic is not imprinted with cell pattern (and I also
>do not want to reopen the LONG debate about duragilt from last year).
>
>I have found that all the prices are very close to each other.  Could anyone
>who has used more than one of these compare the quality please.  My only
>personal experience with plastic is with pierco frames.  I have been told by
>one of our local beekeepers that some of the plastic foundations have a
>deeper drawn cell than pierco and are much more readily worked by the bees.
>I assume that the pierco foundation is the same depth of cell as the pierco
>frame.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help
>Stan
>
>I've used both RITE-CELL and PIERCO inserts both work very good the secert
is put the frames on during a honey flow. Both Have Pluses. Bees winter very
well on plastic. Have wintered 5-Frame Nucs on Plastic in Northern Mass.