Hi all (first post!)- not sure if this is a post for the projection forum, but I'm gonna stick it here because it's mostly rigging related. For my school's upcoming homecoming dance I've been asked to create a sort of projector mosaic on a white stone wall in our gym; I've taken 6 projectors from our stores and started to go about hanging them.
Here's the setup so far:
http://imgur.com/3EfjtdN
Couldn't find any hardware to mount these guys on c-clamps at first so I went ahead and built frames for them: each is constructed with ply held together with 3-in deck screws at the sides and L-brackets for extra support. The c-clamp apparatus is another ply board with a hole bored for the clamp bolt, mounted onto the bottom ply board with 6 1.5in screws. All in all the mount is held onto the projector with the built-in machine screw mounting points for a normal mount.
First question: will this be enough to ensure that the projectors will stay in place? They're being hung above people so I also plan to safety cable the projector itself to the bar...which brings me to my second question...
Second question: We plan to hang these from piping used for ceiling-suspended gym basketball hoops, with no more than 2 for each set of pipe. How will the clamps do on the pipe? Is the pipe even remotely safe to hang from? I've been up on a genie to check it out and I can't find stamping on it anywhere, but it seems completely stable.
Sorry for the long read, want to get this right and safe.
Here's the setup so far:
http://imgur.com/3EfjtdN
Couldn't find any hardware to mount these guys on c-clamps at first so I went ahead and built frames for them: each is constructed with ply held together with 3-in deck screws at the sides and L-brackets for extra support. The c-clamp apparatus is another ply board with a hole bored for the clamp bolt, mounted onto the bottom ply board with 6 1.5in screws. All in all the mount is held onto the projector with the built-in machine screw mounting points for a normal mount.
First question: will this be enough to ensure that the projectors will stay in place? They're being hung above people so I also plan to safety cable the projector itself to the bar...which brings me to my second question...
Second question: We plan to hang these from piping used for ceiling-suspended gym basketball hoops, with no more than 2 for each set of pipe. How will the clamps do on the pipe? Is the pipe even remotely safe to hang from? I've been up on a genie to check it out and I can't find stamping on it anywhere, but it seems completely stable.
Sorry for the long read, want to get this right and safe.