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    Break-away Door

    This summer our community theatre company is putting on a production of 'Singin' in the Rain'... another one of those movies-turned-musicals. For the show we need some break-away doors for an actor to crash through and the only re-usable idea we can think of is to construct doors from 1.5"...
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    Proscenium # Markers

    If you're looking for cleaner looking numbers, you can usual get them from a printing company. We recently got ours from a company in Florida called Artype Inc.
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    Life-like Cars

    All I can say is.... don't do this.Oh high school.... Yes we ducted out the exhaust, no it wasn't worth the effort... at all.I like the styrofoam idea, I just wonder if thats a time-effective way of shaping it. I'm not sure if I'm repeating what you said, but a combination of foam strips to...
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    Interesting jack on an interesting speaker

    Big fan of using twist-lock edison plugs. Easiest solution to the danger of plugging them into power is to just put a male recessed port. Works great with leviton plugs as they have very tight contacts.
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    Heat Damaged Cyc

    Last year at my former high school a VL3000 was aimed at the cyc. Normally not a problem, except the nose of the 3k was only 6 inches from it. Now there is a nice yellow spot where the heat damaged the fabric. Does anyone have any idea of a way to even slightly disguise the discoloration? We've...
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    ETC's new EDLT's anyone?

    Our school just redid the entire inventory with ETC fixtures including some of the EDLTs. They're pretty great. We do a lot of projections so they're nice to have around to say the least.
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    Broadway Sign Reveal

    Thanks for the advice on flame proofing the inside of the letters, almost forgot to order the stuff!
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    Fresnel Ablaze

    This happened three years ago but anyways. I was setting up some 6" fresnels in a multipurpose room in my high school. Conviently this room actually has 3 battens above the drop ceiling and a distro in the ceiling with camlock drop cables. The lights we were using had been stored in a...
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    Broadway Sign Reveal

    A Chorus Line at Krannert
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    Broadway Sign Reveal

    Ha, there's plenty of people at Krannert who have ideas on what to use. I'm just looking for additional ideas. The sign is flown. The letters are about 3 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide. Much of the letters are curved some very sharply. The material has to be thin enough to bend, but thick enough to...
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    Broadway Sign Reveal

    I'm working on a show that calls for a Broadway Sign with a 4" reveal surrounding the letters to boh mask lightbulbs and make it look more realistic. The problem i'm having is finding a material to make this reveal. I've looked at flashing, both aluminum and vinyl, but these are difficult to...
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    Training Cable

    Does anybody have any tricks or tips for when it comes to training a cable. Meaning how you get a cable to form a decent coil. Lots of new cable sometimes comes in too tight of a coil. Stretching out the cable and letting it sit works sometimes but not always. Any ideas?
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    Rosco ImagePro

    Yeah, the Image Pro uses plastic slides cooled by a reflector and fan to project images, the slides last at max 50 hours. Glass gobos work much better but cost hundreds of dollars.
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    Rosco ImagePro

    Anybody ever use these? We rented 5 of them to project stained glass windows. Lets just say, they aren't worth the money. There two significant problems with them. The first is since the image goes into the iris slot of a Source Four, there is almost no way to get the image clear. Much worse...
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    ULX system Advice and input sought

    I'm from the school Wemeck ATDs at and we went ahead and bought 3 ULX combos. Now the grand total is 14 UHF Combos and 3 ULX combos. We keep the receivers about 80 feet+ from the center of the stage, and reception has never been a real issue. However, it seems like they have poor battery life...
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