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Rewaxing plastic foundation
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:27 pm
by bdloving
Hm, several boxes of moth-eaten plastic foundation in wood frames.
I can scrape the junk off. but then, how much do I need to clean them before painting on some wax?
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:52 am
by Jacobs
How badly silked and tunneled up is it? If most of the comb is still o.k. you may want to use it in a strong hive and let the bees clean it up and keep using the comb. If you cannot save the comb I don't think you need to get to spotless plastic, but I would want to get to where the outline of the cells would serve as a guide for cell building. You also may want talk to Wally about the +/- of certain varieties of BT for comb protection.
If I have enough bees to play with this year, I want more drawn deep frames and have painted a heavier beeswax coating on new plastic foundation to see if that will help with more complete comb building. I would do the same application for plastic foundation I scraped clean and intended to re use.