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Mr. Morse was an absolute pleasure to work with on 'Tru' at the Booth in New York. He had one of the most 'we're all working on this show together' demeanours that I've encountered.

Around 1992 just before the start of the New York City premiere of 'Toys' at the Ziegfeld, I was standing next to my follow spot mid-auditorium. The late Robin Williams, in the red bowler and coat seen in the movie walked up to me and struck up the most pleasant conversation. I'll never forget...

Re-reading the original post: Not intimating any lack of knowledge of what an actual knuckle buster is.

Alright... Mutual Hardware to the rescue again (note to moderators please delete the sharable image from Mutual's Website if it violates any forum usage policy)

Only because I live for this pedantic stuff... The picture is indeed of a KLIPLOK clamp formerly used on fuseholders that had lost their tension and would run hot (or worse). An actual Knuckle Buster is/was a malleable fitting that is installed on the hauling line of a counterweight set as an...

I've always found ENTTEC products to work as advertised. I've also been guilty of the magical thinking that goes along with not reading an equipment specification in its entirety. ENTEC notes total device wattage in the printed specs and in the silkscreen on the driver enclosures. While the...

All good ideas. You could also consider mounting your casters on hinged or toggled plates and using conventional air springs (think air-ride truck bags) for the lift. Advantages would be low cost, low parts count, lots of lift force in a small envelope. Disadvantages would include your "NRE"...

This is just too interesting not to comment on... At first glance this looks like a pneumatic cable cylinder, and the fitting visible just below the light/guard rail in "img_20191002_141801200-jpg.18527" would seem to reinforce this notion. Cable cylinders are occasionally fitted with brake...

To amplify Mr. Terry's comment, though I don't recognize the specific nylon DIN-Rail mounted terminal blocks in the photos, nor can I reliably identify these as "mechanical clamping" or "setscrew" variants. I've seen countless terminations of multicore service cable flex-stranded conductors...

F.Y.I.: the Autocue originally used a boot loader entered from the PDP-8 switch register, which enabled the ASR-33 paper tape reader. This was the backup scenario when the Sykes digital cassette tape malfunctioned. These were subsequently replaced with 8-inch floppy drives. If memory serves...

The three neurons that still fire say it was the Kliegl Performer on Rosewater, 1979.

Hello ControlBooth folks. My name is Ira and I've been involved with the engineering of theatrical systems for the past thirty five years or so. I'm looking forward to learning what I can, and contributing what I know here.