Posted By Lorna Dickson I wonder if anyone can help out there...... I work for a company which contains a powder paint facillity. This facility is made up of 2 powder paint booths. These booths, when full, can weigh up to 3 tonnes. So, as a short term fix, we asked the team of operators to 'dig out' the excess powder manually in order to prevent moving problems, etc. We have to manually move the booths in order to take into account colour changes for different customer specifiications. We clean, hoover out the booth and then start again with the new colour. I am snowed under looking at various options which will help this quest of mechanising this process e.g. air, electric switches, motors, hydraulic rams, winch systems .... Can anyone share any experience that they may have had whilst carrying out a similar exercise? I look forward to any comments...

Posted By Jonathan Breeze Lorna, Just in case you're not already aware, HSE do 2 publications that can be downloaded from their website and may be appropriate to the process you describe: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg319.pdf and http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/eis15.pdf Hope they help.