How Do You Store Your Lights?

[Too_Tall]

Originally Posted by mbandgeek

I am intrigued. Can you include pictures while building one of these?

ill take pictures this week, i am almost done though

[mbandgeek]

Originally Posted by Too_Tall

ill take pictures this week, i am almost done though

cool, thank you. Kudos to whoever started this thread. I might pass a few of these ideas to the TD at my HS.

[TupeloTechie]

when my old school got renovated, they had about a 10ft piece of truss left over, we put it between two ladders we didn't use anymore and that worked pretty well.

[drawstuf99]

We've got what little spair instruments hung on a railing in our loft. It's not perfect, but at least their hung.

[highschooltech]

My school has a large theater so we have a lot of extra lights when we are in rep plot. We store our S4s on the mez with areas marked out for each degree. For the parnells and fernels we just hang them off one of the rails on ouir grid that is out of sight. Other lights, like floor cyc lights, are thrown under the stairs to the catwalk

[Van]

Hey I was just playing around with sketchup and thought this might come in usefull the someone here. I had to zip it since CB doesn't take Sketchup files yet. If you don't have sketchup, get it, or download the viewer, it's a great program.

[soundlight]

Sketchup is amazing. I downloaded the free version shortly after it came out.

[Sylak]

We store our extra lights in our flyrail on shelves and hanging from railings.

We have some older lights that got hidden in our cove a few years back when the district tried to throw everything out from the off site storage warehouse after they stopped paying for it, that aren't really official.

[AJBRAT]

Okay, so got the storage plans down. WHO BUILDS MEAT RACKS ON THE WEST COAST? The shop i work in doesn't support a metal works scenic shop so no welder, which is why the project would need outsourcing. Any ideas or contacts any is willing to shoot over?

Thanks-

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by AJBRAT

...WHO BUILDS MEAT RACKS ON THE WEST COAST? ...

The only mass-manufactured product I know of is this Thomas product.

PRG, Ed&Ted's, Delicate Productions, Kinetic, ELS, AceyDecy, Angstrom, all come to mind as lighting shops in LA who have them or have built them themselves.

If the fixtures are never going to leave the building, I recommend chair racks, similar to these. Just slip the yoke over the arm, and safety the outer fixture back to the vertical so they don't fall off. These are less expensive, probably hold more fixtures more densely, and one doesn't have to tighten or loosen the clamps. They also work fairly well as a cable rack.