When I got my first Beemax and Swienty boxes, I could not wait and I 
transferred some pretty good looking hives into them just before winter. 
the results were terrible compared to the ones that remained in wood.

I blamed the fact that I transferred them late, not the boxes, since ever 
after that the plastic hives have been comparable to the wooden ones.

Now I wonder.  Those boxes were brand new.  Was that the problem?

Does new plastic equipment off-gas for a while until broken in?  Should I 
have left the boxes out in the weather for a while before using them? Should 
I have painted them inside with propolis tincture? 

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