Hello All,
The commercial method is to run the frames through an uncapper ( adjusted to
the lowest setting) like the boganshutz and cut the comb down to around a
sixteenth above the bottom of the cell. Then the bees seem to work the
frame.

I have used the method with a Dakota gunness also.

Scrapping leaves little pattern for the bees to work from.

The above has been used successfully to reduce mitacide comb contamination. 
I have
watched while tens of thousands of comb are run though the boganshutz by
Hispanic workers in the off season.

*if* you do the math you will quickly see the method perhaps is more
effective than removing a couple frames a year and replacing with
foundation.

bob

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