Comments on: Fitting National Hive Metal Rails for Top and Bottom Bee Space http://www.peak-hives.co.uk/peak-hives/fitting-national-hive-metal-rails-for-top-and-bottom-bee-space/584/ national beehives hand made in the peak district Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: simon craven http://www.peak-hives.co.uk/peak-hives/fitting-national-hive-metal-rails-for-top-and-bottom-bee-space/584/comment-page-1/#comment-469 simon craven Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:13:41 +0000 http://www.peak-hives.co.uk/?p=584#comment-469 Hi, im looking at changing my broods boxes to 14x12, and was wondering if you do any discount on 10 flat pack red deal ? Hi, im looking at changing my broods boxes to 14×12, and was wondering if you do any discount on 10 flat pack red deal ?

]]> By: Kerry Buckley http://www.peak-hives.co.uk/peak-hives/fitting-national-hive-metal-rails-for-top-and-bottom-bee-space/584/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Kerry Buckley Tue, 18 May 2010 16:22:46 +0000 http://www.peak-hives.co.uk/?p=584#comment-383 I was wondering about the easiest way to make some 18mm spacers to fit the rails on my top bee space boxes when a simple answer came to me: frame top bars! They're just the right size (obviously) to allow you to lie two across the box and rest the rails on top, they fit (again obviously) in the gaps in castellated spacers, and the ends are 18mm high if you put them on the bench with the lugs up, and 9mm with the lugs down. Incidentally the captions on your photo don't agree with the text – the captions say 8mm, but the text (and the writing on the spacers) says 10mm. Either way, if my logic is correct the thickness of a frame lug is guaranteed to be right for bottom bee space, where you need the tops of the frames flush with the top of the box. I was wondering about the easiest way to make some 18mm spacers to fit the rails on my top bee space boxes when a simple answer came to me: frame top bars!

They’re just the right size (obviously) to allow you to lie two across the box and rest the rails on top, they fit (again obviously) in the gaps in castellated spacers, and the ends are 18mm high if you put them on the bench with the lugs up, and 9mm with the lugs down.

Incidentally the captions on your photo don’t agree with the text – the captions say 8mm, but the text (and the writing on the spacers) says 10mm. Either way, if my logic is correct the thickness of a frame lug is guaranteed to be right for bottom bee space, where you need the tops of the frames flush with the top of the box.

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