The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . by power, and propose tomake hives in any quantity, you had betteradoi)t the dovetailed joint. This sort of acorner has long been in use on sectionhoney-boxes. It is only recently that it hasbeen adapted on a large scale practically tohives. Such corners make the very strong-est hives—so strong, indeed, that a
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . by power, and propose tomake hives in any quantity, you had betteradoi)t the dovetailed joint. This sort of acorner has long been in use on sectionhoney-boxes. It is only recently that it hasbeen adapted on a large scale practically tohives. Such corners make the very strong-est hives—so strong, indeed, that a weightof 100 pounds may be put on the diagonallyopposite corners, and yet not affect the truesquare of the body. The dovetails are I in. wide, and it is done Ijy a series of dadoesaws, spaced exactly I inch apart by metalcollars, the whole strunjj upon one largeheavy mandrel. The dadoe cutter is madeup of one wabble-saw held by beveled collarsbetween two heavy groovers. The groov-ers are simply to clean the edge of the cut,and the wabble is to do most of the do the work ni-ely, a pile of boardsshould Ije put in an automati * machine, insuch a way as to be se:-urely clamped. Theseboards, en masse, are then passed over a se-ries of dadoe saws by suitable riding A 1 HIVE. There is another and simpler way thatthe ends of the boards may be dovetailed,and that is. by shoving each lioard (on a linewith the mandrel shaft) between a pair ofstoi)S on to the dadoe cutters one l)y one,until they reach a couple of stops in be-tween the saws that regulate tlie depth ofthe cut. This cut will be a little rounding,to conform to the circumference of thesaws; but the boards will bed together. Ihardly need mention, that dovetailing takesconsiderable power; and you will need touse at least a four-inch belt to drive themandrel.
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