What are these poles?

Bwah! Well, a salty dog once told me about brine dimmers... <rimshot> He also made the case for board stretchers and turboencabulators.

Lemme tell ya about the time we rigged a 1940s 4.5'dia. mirror ball... and had it "drop in" un-announced during rehearsal... Oh. Nevermind.

Seriously though, if you told my first Steward about building structural set pieces with drywall screws his head would have probably actually exploded.

I will allow that most technology advances have been for the better. Some knowledge of the old-school techniques improves awareness overall, and that is never a bad thing.

And get off my lawn!
 
Don't go messin' with the Turboencabulator! You could disrupt the space-time continuum!
 
Some Turboencabulator literature from an ancient company...


And a video...
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@Ancient Engineer You need to meet the lads who operate L3 Engineering. I was one of several Canadians who needed to be fingerprinted by your FBI / CIA / "Men In Black" in order to watch one of L3's demo reels when we were considering one of L3's products for an automation project we were manufacturing for MSNBC.
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Ron Hebbard
 
Some Turboencabulator literature from an ancient company...


And a video...
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@Ancient Engineer "Every seventh slot" BRILLIANT!! Consider what that does for minimizing triplen harmonics alone.
@TimMc Care to comment? Imagine if they'd implemented their fully parametric features in their original release.
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Ron Hebbard
 
@TimMc I'm waiting for @Ancient Engineer to explain brine dimmers to us along with how he erected the pyramids before he sat down to eat his dinosaur sandwich.
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Ron Hebbard
On Topic: We have a half dozen stage braces around, and I grab one for something a few times a year, sometimes even for bracing scenery!

Off-Topic: I made a brine dimmer for a Physics for Non-Majors class in ~1978. What was interesting was that there were enough dissolved minerals in our tap water that it worked even before I added salt to the water!
 
@Ancient Engineer "Every seventh slot" BRILLIANT!! Consider what that does for minimizing triplen harmonics alone.
@TimMc Care to comment? Imagine if they'd implemented their fully parametric features in their original release.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard

Ron, they multiply IIRC, and therefore the 21st harmonic is predominate. ;) Then again, maybe the cancel out at the 21st, and we enter the 6th dimension. Math is hard, I didn't know there would be a test... :D
 

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