My theater has a single track center part traveler hung on an ADC Besteel 170 track and I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to close. I recently replaced the homemade overlap carriers that my predecessor made (which didn't overlap very well) with the actual Model 2602s, and ever since I swapped those out, the curtain closes super easy, but requires a HUGE amount of force to pull back open open. The first time I tried it, I didn't keep pulling because I was afraid I was caught on something, but after confirming it was free, I tried again and it was still ridiculously hard to pull. I haven't closed it since because I don't want to keep putting that amount of force on the handline, track, and live-end pulley, but we are going to need to use the traveler soon for our fall play.
Any ideas as to what could be making the curtain so hard to close? I followed the instructions and graphic drawings from ADC to a tee when I re-ran the handline through everything and have triple checked it, but there still seems to be something I'm missing. Thanks in advance for any advice!
Any ideas as to what could be making the curtain so hard to close? I followed the instructions and graphic drawings from ADC to a tee when I re-ran the handline through everything and have triple checked it, but there still seems to be something I'm missing. Thanks in advance for any advice!