Recent content by dimwatt

Panto is a strange beast that many of our American colleagues may not have experienced. You will probably find you have double the number of LX cues than an equivalent "normal" play. The level of audience interaction and participation will ensure that no two performances are the same. Matinées...

Most of the posters here are USA based and Zero88 isn't big over there, so you might be struggling to get a full range of views for these specific desks. It may be worth posing the same question on the Blue Room (http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showforum=2) which is more UK based.I've no...

What do you want to know? The T1 is a 500W 240V incandescent lamp with a P28s base. The T1 is hard to find, although they occasionally turn up on ebay. As far as I am aware no one has manufactured them for several years. I'm still using a few of them, but replace them with T17 which uses the...

A few of us are still using Patt 23s (and you see them changing hands all the time on ebay), and the Patt 123 (Fresnel) is very widely used. Even with a T1 bubble (Phillips 559c or similar - non-halogen) they put out a reasonable light.The superior halogen T17/T24 lamp has helped increase the...

Interesting to see that the three tools on the "My First Victorinox" (which are presumably considered to be the essentials), are a knife, a saw and a handy device to remove the tops from beer bottles. I suppose this isn't all that surprising given that there is no minimum legal drinking age...

I'm with Grog12 on this. The light is just so wishy-washy and bland. No feeling or atmosphere, not even stark coldness, just bleugh.

Does anyone know if Leatherman are planning to bring out a de-tuned version of the Wave® ? What I'm after is a tool that doesn't punish you for being a total idiot and forgetting to keep your other hand well out of the way, just in case the knife slips. Ideally it would be fitted with no...

Far from it. I thought that was a very interesting discussion which provoked a lot of different opinions and creative ideas. The very reason why I joined this forum. Thank you for starting the thread.

I wonder if using narrow spot (or very narrow) PARs would give the effect you are after at a relatively modest cost, especially if you have the cans available. These have a somewhat longer expected life than the ACLs, so you would have them available to use in the future too. Something like a...

I quite like these http://www.aclighting.com/bargains/view.asp?ref=658. At £350 + VAT (circa $825) they're a little cheaper and can still be used in your theatre. Not sure why they are in the "bargains" section of the A.C. Lighting website. An un-chromed Patt. 23 in perfect working order will...

Well, blue actually. I'm at the planning stage of a production of Aladdin, a classic pantomime, a really fun show with lots of lighting effects and pyro. I've got most of the effects covered, but I'm looking for ideas for one thing the director has asked me to do. At one point in the show...

You could try formatting the floppy in a M$-Windows PC (if you can find one with a 3.5" drive) as a 720Kb capacity disk. Make sure you do a "full" format, not a "quick" one. You probably know this, but just in case: to format the disk stick it in the drive, start Windows Explorer (hold down...

Thanks everyone for the help, advice and top tips. I was struggling to find a supplier in the US that would post to the UK - most of them just say "no way" and the others charge extortionate rates and/or have a minimum order value that's way over what I need/want to spend. I assume that's...

I recently acquired some profile spots by accident. They were on ebay, with no proper description. I was looking for some spotlights and thought these looked interesting, so I put in a very low bid not expecting to win. So for fifty quid (about US$88) I ended up with a set of six complete with...

Ouch! I hope your skull is as solid as mine. Concussion is a serious injury. I wonder if you ought to seek medical advice. Perhaps drill manufacturers ought to start recommending full-body kevlar suits and motorcycle-style full face crash helmets as standard safety gear, rather than just a...