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Well i put a load of frames together a few days ago while waiting for the supers to be delivered to house them..checkerboard style mixed with drawn extracted super foundation..
I was putting the un wired foundation in today and through listening to the radio and day dreaming i managed to put the odd side bar the wrong way around.. ..i did the same last year while stopping in a caravan lambing ..
Has anyone else managed this or is me unique..

yes steve,
did it the other day but realised before I set to with the nail gun, kinda hard to get the foundation in.

I haven't put any on the wrong way round Steve but we were assembling frames yesterday and have come to the conclusion that a certain supplier sells horrendous quality frames that had to be twisted and forced square. The side bars sat wonky - about 80-85 degree angle from the top bars. Also had to chisel bits off the top strip that holds the wires in place. Bottom bars too thick for the notch in side bars causing splits. Argh!

Safe to say I won't be returning to this supplier

Steve 1972 wrote: ↑

24 May 2020, 20:06

Has anyone else managed this or is me unique..

I expect that we have all made more mistakes than we care to mention!

(Langstroth frames don't have the grove in the side bars for the foundation to slide down - so you could just take a few mm off the foundation with a sharp knife and fit it anyway - and not worry too much about the hoffman bits being the wrong way round).

I could leave the side bars the wrong way around Adam but my autistic traits will not allow me to do that..