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I'd be curious to work some of the numbers re: box age and paraffin's preservation and costings.  But not enough to actually do it.  I can't find my reference just now, but I think it may have been Harry Cloake (?) who used the rule of thumb of "a  box should last 20 years".  But that's talking wax dipping new gear, not for sterilisation.  Just to put that into the context of "way back then", the rule of thumb was you need to replace 2 frames per year.  That was per hive, not per box...  We would often have some pretty gnarly old black combs...