>Juanse: No problem with to high temperature inside in summer? I'm in Maine and I store equipment in an old container truck body, was a Navy truck originally. In the summer I leave the doors open and cover the area with large screen doors that used to go to sliding glass doors. I try get the truck empty before hot weather but.... we had a really hot summer a couple of years ago and I had boxes with foundation in the truck and the foundation melted dripping down all over some drawn wax that was at the bottom of the stack. I have thought about sea containers they are popular here for storage, people have two and put a roof, using rafters, between them for a covered storage area in the middle. I would be sure to have fitted screen doors for containers in the summer or really good ventilation. Since I started using screens in the summer nothing has melted and last summer I had some deep boxes in there all summer long. Some one just opened a bee themed gift shop here and they offer extraction, payment is $2.00 a frame or 30% of the honey, minimum of one 8 or 10 frame super. We have a lot of hobby beeks in our area so I expect offering extracting will do well. What if some one didn't know their hives had AFB and they brought their suppers to be extracted and the same afternoon there where supers coming in from another beek so the extracting equipment had wet honey in it from the first job. Would the second beeks frames get spores? Then with those wet boxes put on the bees for clean up could AFB get passed along. I would think it would be to hard to wash out the extractor and bottling tank between each job because drying an extractor is not an easy job and the puddles of water in the bottom would put water in the honey. Do any of you think this could be a concern with a extractor being use for different equipment? About 20 years ago there was a problem here with AFB some of the beekeepers who have seen it are cringing at the thought of supers going through a extractor from different bees yards that have not been inspected. Karen T-K *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm