I'd like to know how the above $200,000 was contracted and what it included besides the machines and controls.
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- As I think back......The arbors for 5 electrics needed to be replaced and the t-tracks needed to be re-mounted to accommodate a new and different
arbor. As note, the existing electrics were dual single
track arbors "married" at the pipe, thus you needed to haul 2 adjacent
purchase lines to get the
electric moved. All our linesets are otherwise on 6" centers and the newer
winch system needed the room for the floor motors, so won't work on a
system on 6" centers unless you remove an adjacent
lineset.
As well, the original arbors are all custom (as is the entire
counterweight fly
rail), a result of the building
stage wall being built at an angle that is not perpendicular to the
proscenium, so wedges had to be installed on the
track glide blocks (new and old) to
shim the
arbor(s) so that they are parallel to the
proscenium. Possibly much additional labor costs for all that.
- It's NYC and even though the installer was I Weiss (non-union AFAIK and a good company), the City University Contracts office always add's 5-10% or more for cost over-runs,
etc.... thus a $200,000 budget. I have no idea how much I Weiss was paid.
As comment, it was not in the budget to install the
Clancy Scene Control master control units, thus the individual winches have separate control heads with lock-out keys, up.down buttons, a dead-mans
button and a target indicator. About the only operating quirk we find is a result of the very basic design of the control head, that has a single neon indicator that lights when you hit ANY target. There are 4 heights you can set as targets, with 4 as the lowest, 1 the highest. If you want to lower an
electric/pipe from say - target 2 to
deck, you will stop at 3 and 4 on the way down. The operator MUST pay attention as to which target they want to be at when you
restore to
trim height. If they "forget" that they stopped at 3, then you are at the wrong
trim height. The indicator lights tell you are at a target, just not which one. If
Clancy were smart, they would modify the head
unit to have a small
LCD display that indicates "1-2-3-4" for which target you are at. Would make life easier for the crew. In retrospective, I would budget for a master control
unit (which can be added after the fact).