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Yep, I'm a newbee all right.
Now, I purchased most of my equipment when I was in the lower-48 last year - freight to Alaska is a killer - and my supplier told me to keep the all-wax foundations cool.
Which I did.
What is not clear is at what temperatures I ought to be working with them as I prepare my frames and foundations for next week's arrival of bees.
I am no butterfingers...but the very first foundation I handled snapped clean along one of the vertical wires. Oops.
The second one shattered into three pieces.
This is not a good trend. So:
1. At what temps SHOULD one be handling foundations;
and
2. What is it like to perform some beeswax welding? I don't, of course, have any spare wax.....
and
3. How rare a goof is this? I wonder if the rest of the world's idea of "keep cool" differs from what mine is. As a hint, it was cool this morning here: -3ºF.....
Now, I purchased most of my equipment when I was in the lower-48 last year - freight to Alaska is a killer - and my supplier told me to keep the all-wax foundations cool.
Which I did.
What is not clear is at what temperatures I ought to be working with them as I prepare my frames and foundations for next week's arrival of bees.
I am no butterfingers...but the very first foundation I handled snapped clean along one of the vertical wires. Oops.
The second one shattered into three pieces.
This is not a good trend. So:
1. At what temps SHOULD one be handling foundations;
and
2. What is it like to perform some beeswax welding? I don't, of course, have any spare wax.....
and
3. How rare a goof is this? I wonder if the rest of the world's idea of "keep cool" differs from what mine is. As a hint, it was cool this morning here: -3ºF.....