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Re: Rewaxing Plastic Foundation
From:
Tim Arheit <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:53:18 -0500
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At 11:16 AM 12/2/2003, you wrote:
>Soooo, I
>need ideas on how to recoat the foundation?  Dip um? Spray um?  Rub with a
>block of wax then smooth out with a heat lamp?  Comments and help please.
>Don't forget, we're talking several hundred.

I just paint them with melted wax using a cheap foam brush.  It goes on
thicker than the normal prewaxed sheets and tends to coat the rims of the
cells more than anything else, but the bees fix it up and seem to draw it
faster that plain or prewaxed sheets.

-Tim

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