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of course, if you label it when you're loading it this whole 'identifying' issue goes right out the widow.

Good that it's a Thern winch. That picture of the Idler/Mule/ whatever, block on the wall looks like the anchors facing the camera are failing and the mount is pulling away from the wall?!? Personally I'd want to see that pulley replaced, have the fleet angles addressed, and the wire rope...

Better than Masonite.

OMG The YEARS spent sorting gels because I was the new guy... "The horror, the horror".

Funny, but when MY dad built his house Og told him to go with Slate siding but no, he has to go with the short-faced bear skins. Man, I spent so much time playing bait for those things....

Quite a bit better than Masonite.

Another, great, but more expensive option is 1/4" MDF. It's 49"x109" which makes it great for floor covering as it will overlap plywood seams below it. +'s it'll last for damn near forever. -'s it's a bit heavier, a bit more expensive, it definitely requires counter-sinking.

Ah, I was thinking of Windows RDP. I have very little latency, even on my VPN from home. But I don't deal with it in a performance environment.

Why not Remote Desktop?

As Kyle said above, cast floor flanges, are not meant to be used in rigging, and while cheeseburgers are not "ANSI Approved for Overhead Lifting" it is a commonly accepted practice to use them for temporary rigging of cross pipes on Pipe Grids; I would also argue that in this particular case...

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Empty. Filled at LD's discretion and Preference.

@jtweigandt I was thinking the same thing. I sure hope the stagehands keep a big bottle of WD-40 on hand.

I really want to see more specs but what I have seen tells me this has a plastic case which is easy to open, by anyone. It has a "Patent Pending" brake system. Those are just the items I identified in a quick search, most everything out there right now is Milwaukie Fan-boys republishing the...

Great for an engine hoist, or maybe lifting a pallet of supplies to the second floor in a construction site. If I saw one of these in a venue.... Yeah, no way