Hi all

Chuck Norton said:

> I do not purchase budget woodenware because these
> truly are rejects and the quality is truly missing.

As an ex-equipment manufacturer in UK, I can comment with reasonable
authority :-)

In general nobody sets out to make junk, although I have seen examples that
were pretty poor.

Most of the parts that become 'seconds' are rejected for cosmetic reasons
rather than any dimensional errors.

My own personal equipment has been made mainly from parts rejected during my
own manufacture, this has been no problem for me and no detriment to the
bees.

Bee space violation only occurs here when boxes of US or NZ manufacture are
mixed in with British hive boxes. Dimensionss in beekeeping manufacture have
historically been maintained to a high standard in UK as we did have an
official 'British Standard', unfortunately this has now lapsed.

Declining quality in available timber has been a problem in UK for longer
than in US, but providing some extra seasoning is undertaken by the
manufacturer, the effects of this can be minimised. It does however eat up
storage space... As the best way of achieving it is to stack part machined
components at various times during manufacture for several months at a time.
This attention to detail helps to keep tolerances small and of the order of
0.1 mm (0.004") which we used to be proud of.


Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
Beekeeping & Bee Breeding Website
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http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman & http://www.dave-cushman.net

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