Top Bar hive foundation starter

thingiverse

Rip a saw blade width 5mm deep along the center of your bar. Print 1 each of A1,A2,B1 & B2 to make one bar. (or alternately print one A & one B if your printer can handle it). Glue the A & B together back to back. These are made to fit my TBH. (19 - 1/2" bar) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3126333 If your bars are shorter just trim out of the middle. If they're longer you will just have a gap in the middle. The stops on the end of the starter strips keep the bar centered in the hive so push them out to the ends (actually 7/8" from each end). I brushed some hot beeswax on it and the pictures are after 48 hours in the hive stuck between 2 drawn frames on a flow. I had bad results trying one without wax on it. I don't recommend it. Print at .2mm resolution with a .4mm nozzle. I used PETG. Updated 4/30/2019 I changed the files a little after noticing on natural comb the center of the cells are offset by 1/2 the cell size horizontally & vertically on opposite sides of the comb. Updated 6/15/2019 Changed the files where the comb matches all the way across instead of what was going on with the original models in the middle of the bar. I also made the cells a little smaller (4.95mm) & a little deeper (2mm now). Updated 8/28/2019 Added a 4" starter strip A & B