I was sorting through some frames to get ready for a new colony and found several with very moldy comb. The comb is built around wires, no plastic foundation, so I can't just pop out the foundation and clean the wood frame.

What is the best way to clean out the comb without damaging the wires, so I can reuse them?

Thanks. 

Thanks. I'll give it a try next week when the sun comes back.  :--)

They can be picky.

I gave a really heavy one deep colony a second box of new acorn heavy waxed frames and they hardly touched them. I pulled that box off and put on another box with a mixture of old crunchy wax, used frames with bad comb, a couple of wax foundation frames, and the girls jumped right on it.

How can hoarders be so picky about where they stash their bounty?

Unless the old frames were really really nasty bees will take to used frames quite well. I'm talking wax moth silk or mouse nest nasty. Bob Binnie says they wont touch anything with mouse pee on it.  (Made me wonder if that first box I gave that colony had mouse pee on the box)(I could not smell anything and it will not luminesce with UV light)