Stainless Frame Wire Spool 1kg

01 · HOW FAR IT GOES

One spool wires a small apiary's whole season

The 800 metres on the spool cover roughly 412 Layens frames, 500 Langstroth, 381 Dadant brood or 510 shallows. Those are indicative: the wiring pattern moves them a lot. Stainless does not rust in the wax or mark the honey, and it survives frame after frame of recycling; in exchange it feels stiffer than galvanised, so tension gradually to avoid bowing the top bar.

02 · ELECTRIC EMBEDDING

Stainless has more resistance: your transformer may fall short

It is what surprises people most when they switch wire: stainless steel has higher electrical resistance than galvanised, so with the same embedder the wax may never melt. If that happens it is not the wire: you need a slightly more powerful transformer or longer pulses. Work with short, repeated pulses, watching the wire: the moment it sinks into the wax, stop. Overdoing it burns the sheet and the wire cuts straight through.

03 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the standard wiring gauge, 0.50 mm: fine enough not to cut the wax and strong enough to hold it. If your embedder is a basic one and you would rather not change it, galvanised wire melts in at lower power — but it rusts sooner.