While I frequently get for one reason or another,
chain hoist end caps in my recycling bin, and once in a while an aluminum rock and
roll can that clearly got run over by something, it's very rare I would get rid of gear. Above with giving it away, proper storage for a later day for parts
etc.
A
PAR 64
fixture with a
bit of work can get a
safety screen... heck I even
stock them or it's sufficiently within concept with some 1/2"
hardware cloth to make them. This if not an antique
fixture that can be sold on E-Bay as per an antique which would raise money for the theater. I have two
Strand #8736 or 523M fixtures in my museum and they don't have
safety screens. These on the other
hand is in part
PAR can history and worth being kept origional, but never again used for a production as more than a prop at nominal voltatage to them. On the other
hand, where I work, used to make their own
PAR cans'. Later upgrade to them was a
safety screen added. Not what I would do but it was a
safety screen and was sufficient. Long since sold off or gave away these fixtures.
Shotty wiring is easy to fix. While just graduated, with some experience and training more so - re-wiring isn't a problem and fairly cheaper to do than buying a new
fixture. If doing an assessment, often it is better to bank on the future in putting stuff away for a later day what cannot be fixed now properly but would be worth saving.
On the plethra of Lekos you seem to have, than these
360Q fixtures will never again be used? Can't imaine a time when designing shows that I have not found it useful to have a back pocket of Lekos' available. At least fix them up and sort of perminant loan them out to another local theater with the concept of if needed, you might be able to get them back for use if available. Depends on the
lens train type also - if 4.5x6... clean them up and put them away, if 6x9, save them or at least get that above concept of long term loan done. Of the other
lens trains, A little less useful at times but all are. This plus if you have extra parts, you no doubt have extra
lens trains and tubes that can become the more useful versions up to 6x12. Hang onto the 6x22
lens trains if you have them, at least two of them also. At times from
FOH, another couple of fixtures can be really useful. The 6x16
lens train is perhaps least needed.
If more charged with getting rid of them by way of cash... fix them up some but don't put a huge amount of effort into it beyond being safe. Get them to the smallest
lens size you can, than CB-Market place or E-Bay them amongst other places to sell them off of. You will get more sales from a smaller
360Q lens train, than a larger one. Len and I as with others also have
360Q parts about, contact off
line in making them more valuable for resale by way of
lens trains and snouts if they are not aleady premium. If you have a 4.5Q6 contact no doubt either of us amongst others or even just selling the
lens train, - that's a valuable
lens train even if
lens train only.
On the 65Q's... What you have say over 2/3 Fresnels to
Leko's percentage? I know of a community theater that has over that percentage - I personally re-wired all their fixtures. They are lazy on the other
hand in not selling off the surplus realistically they will never need. I note some past bought S-4
PAR fixtures, is this the reason the Fresnels are no longer valuable to you? A
PAR 64 will never replace a
Fresnel - even the
PAR Nel is it's own creation, and given that, you would do a huge disservice to that theater in getting rid of any Fresnels unless totally overstocked in them.
Overall on fixing the
Leko's with stuck bolts
etc., if you pay to
send them to me in an off-line way, and pay
return shipping; I'll fix it for you - no charge. Even service
call it up some as long as it don't take parts. At that
point as per
Controlbooth guidelines... it's taken off this forum in doing work and getting parts. Same I'm sure with many others that can do a
360Q, 65Q or
PAR can service
call. Off
line to any of us. Len and I for instance on another topic are discussing doing clutch cam's to clutch break
360Q fixtures. That
level of experience many of us have gained over the years - many years.
Remember a similar job I had just out of college to your's. While it wasn't my job to figure out what to save verses dissemble and organize into a parts storage cabinet, more it was to re-wire up a bunch of the fixtures in use. We didn't have new fixtures coming in. Did my best and to the best of my knowledge and education in doing so.
Ran out of heat
wire but (and this is like in 1993) I found an entire spool of heat
wire somewhere back
stage. Proceded to re-wire up a bunch of fixtures with "fresh"
asbestos heat
wire and with non-heat rated
crimp splices in not knowing any better. A caution on what you are paid to be doing.... what you don't know now might harm the future of that theater in a similar way.
Doubt that you would be replacing old
asbestos for new
asbestos fixture wiring, and using low temperature if even isulated terminals for re-wiring inside fixtures. The basics I understood but was totally without a clue yet in what I was doing also.
Asbestos.. what's that... just a different
insulation type never heard of back in like 93' fesh out of college in also taking no protection. In
stock, used it.
In other words, your ability to choose what to save verses toss out or sell off and or give away is problematic. Not by way of your interests in doing the best you can, but more in that you are making choices that will
effect the theater which will
effect this theater ten years from now that ten years from now what you might do in making these changes, could be problematic.
My local High School had a near to it Community College. The two never reall got along until after I got to it and formed a link between the two. (The community college was the one I screwed up the gear to - this following state college in further education.) Community college, some state college or someone that's TD at a lighting company or at least for a
community theatre sould be brought in to help you before you make similar mistakes I made in the past.
Fresh out of college, I didn't know high temperature ring terminals verses vinyl insulated ones. 90c, 150c, 200c or 250c
wire from another,
asbestos verses Teflon. There is stuff that takes time to digest and learn. In your case, if trashing or giving away the 65Q fixtures as up for option..., that's something telling in requiring help from someone with more experience with both design and tech to save these fixtures especially from the chopping
block. Do your job to the best but also given what you decide is perhaps a
bit more than your experience is able to offer opinion for, get help in such desciscions.