AUSTRALASIAN BEE MANUAL 



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These frames being difficult to make by hand it is 

 advisable to purchase them from the manufacturers. 



There is, however, a device made of strong tin, 

 termed a metal spacer, shown in Fig. 33, which folds 

 over the top bar and is tacked on edges of end bars. 

 They keep the frames the correct distance apart, and 

 may be purchased from the manufacturers of bee 

 appliances. With the use of these a person can readily 

 make his own self-spacing frames, but excepting in 

 cases where the cost of carriage is expensive it will be 

 cheaper, when time, trouble, and cost of timber is con- 



Fig- 33- METAL-SPACED FRAME. 



sidered, to purchase them ready made. The dimensions 

 are : — Top bar, igin. long, and seven-eighths of an 

 inch square; shoulders are cut out of the ends lin. 

 deep, leaving a thickness on ends of top bar of five- 

 sixteenths of an inch. End bars 8|in. long, seven- 

 eighths of an inch wide, and three-eighths of an inch 

 thick. Bottom bar, lyfin. long, three-quarters of an 

 inch wide, and quarter of an inch thick. 



SHALLOW EXTRACTING FRAMES. 



Shallow frames are of great advantage where the 

 honey is of a dense nature, requiring increased speed 

 in the revolutions of the Extractor to throw it out. 



