Oh boy!
I learned a lot today. I went to add a new screened inner cover on today and found all sorts of problems.
First off I purchased a 10 frame deep kit from a manufacture to start my bees because with essembling it and taking careful measurements I can make sure and duplicate it when building my own boxes.
I have already made 2 new deep boxes and I thought I measured correctly but each box has been 1/4 inch too long. The widths are fine on each box. Also I found on the top edge on one edge of a board or another they were 1/8th - 3/16 of an inch too tall.
Since I made the two boxes both the same size being too long I went ahead and made the inner cover the same length. And go figure it is exactly correct. But since the box a made is a little off the inner cover is not flush with the box. Now I never realized this but on my telescoping cover it barley fits over the inner cover. So the holes for adding ventilation are now doing no good at all!
Then frustrated with that I never figured exactly what my mistakes were on the boxes so I took my tape measure out and started looking closely. On one box two measurements were off by 1/8" each. On the other I had two off at 1/16" and another at 1/8". So I made 5 different tiny mistakes making two boxes exactly 1/4" off each in the same direction and the one time I get measurements correct that piece does not fit in the existing cover.
Hmmmm frustrating!
So I think I am going to make a new inner cover for now the proper 20" length rather than 20 1/4" because I still have all the material for that. Then next paycheck I am going to re-do two more boxes and swap frames over. I just have to remember that not even 1/16" of a mistake is acceptable because it all adds up of you make more than 1 mistake lol.
Ok my frustrated rant is over. Thanks for reading.
I learned a lot today. I went to add a new screened inner cover on today and found all sorts of problems.
First off I purchased a 10 frame deep kit from a manufacture to start my bees because with essembling it and taking careful measurements I can make sure and duplicate it when building my own boxes.
I have already made 2 new deep boxes and I thought I measured correctly but each box has been 1/4 inch too long. The widths are fine on each box. Also I found on the top edge on one edge of a board or another they were 1/8th - 3/16 of an inch too tall.
Since I made the two boxes both the same size being too long I went ahead and made the inner cover the same length. And go figure it is exactly correct. But since the box a made is a little off the inner cover is not flush with the box. Now I never realized this but on my telescoping cover it barley fits over the inner cover. So the holes for adding ventilation are now doing no good at all!
Then frustrated with that I never figured exactly what my mistakes were on the boxes so I took my tape measure out and started looking closely. On one box two measurements were off by 1/8" each. On the other I had two off at 1/16" and another at 1/8". So I made 5 different tiny mistakes making two boxes exactly 1/4" off each in the same direction and the one time I get measurements correct that piece does not fit in the existing cover.
Hmmmm frustrating!
So I think I am going to make a new inner cover for now the proper 20" length rather than 20 1/4" because I still have all the material for that. Then next paycheck I am going to re-do two more boxes and swap frames over. I just have to remember that not even 1/16" of a mistake is acceptable because it all adds up of you make more than 1 mistake lol.
Ok my frustrated rant is over. Thanks for reading.