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FRAMES AND SECTIONS '37 
precautions will result in the wax sheet being 
cut completely. through. Only just sufficient heat 
and pressure should be used to effect the object, 
which is the sinking of the wires well into the 
wax. This work may be done with an awl with 
a V groove filed in the point and heated in the 
fire, but the above-named tool is vastly. superior 
and should be obtained. 
In fixing foundation in sections the method to 
be adopted depends on the kind of section which 
is being used. Sections are made to take founda- 
tion in various ways. There are split-top sections, 
split-top and side grooves, split all round, and 
solid sections with neither split nor groove. The 
two sections most used, however, are the split- 
top and the solid section, and these shall be taken 
first. Section boxes are made in one piece, with 
V grooves at the joints and dovetails to lock the 
whole together. When they are bought they re- 
quire folding, and before doing this a little warm 
water must be poyred along the V grooves to 
impart elasticity, for they are liable to break if 
very. dry. In folding split-top sections only one 
half of the lid should be placed in position be- 
fore inserting the sheet of foundation, which is 
then secured by closing the other portion of the 
lid. Foundation for sections should be cut very, 
-accurately. It must not touch the sides, and, as in 
frames, it should hang a quarter inch clear from 
the bottom. Being so exceedingly thin it will 
buckle at a touch, and buckled sheets of founda- 
