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Brilliant. Those casters are totally within our budget. Derek, Footer, you guys are awesome, thanks so much.

ouch. I had not thought of these things. This is why I ask you guys :) so just to clarify, I should use neither ball casters (transfers, if McMaster insists) nor smart casters? That basically leaves the zero-throw casters that are just massively out of budget for us. Or is there a middle option?

Thanks for some truly fantastic responses everyone. stoccoj, I passed on the tip about stagehands to the relevant people. In general the reason I chose ball caster was to avoid the problems of swivel casters without the cost of the tri-casters, which are just out of our range. I'm hoping the...

I definitely agree with everything stated, it's hard to fit so many things in one course. In particular I think you might find it useful to differentiate between design and execution in each of these areas. designing a set and building it, or a plot and hanging it, are all really different tasks...

Oh boy, my proscenium theatre is also doing Dead Man's Cell Phone this year. I sincerely hope the director has no aspirations to theatre-in-the-round. However as to your problem, I'm doubtful that a traditional snow cradle will let the paper pass through at all. Even if you have the requisite...

Nick those are some sweet looking casters, unfortunately I have $500 for the whole set, so I need to be rather frugal. But it's good to know it can be done. Looks like my next step is to get my hands on some samples and just play around for a bit. Thanks for all the feedback everyone! I'll post...

Sorry, to clarify I guess I'm asking two questions. 1) will the casters I've chosen adequately execute the turn? (I chose ball casters to avoid the torque problems swivel casters have) and 2) given the weight of the set, would stage hands be able to make the turn in around 30 seconds if they...

@derek: Thanks for the welcome and the Q of the day! Very excited about Control Booth, and luckily I have plenty of time until the build starts.@gbdesign: The stage floor is tempered masonite, and reasonably level (just had it redone). and yes, it has no central anchor point, since we might...

Hey everyone,I'm designing a set for Lost in Yonkers, it's a 16'x12' free-rotating platform made up of 6 stock 4'x8' platforms coffin locked together. Each smaller platform will have 6 ball casters (part 5674K57 over at McMaster) to take the weight of the whole set, which I calculate to be...