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    Tip-over prevention

    I'd guess the 18° is a rule of thumb based on a complicated formula. I recently built flats that were 6' high by about 3' wide that represented doors and mirrors for Mailda. Since they were meant to be quickly rolled all over the stage by younger performers, I went with 18" each side or a base...
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    Tip-over prevention

    I found a lot of hits looking for stability triangle which is a term used for powered lift trucks. From there, I picked a few. One has a, for me as a person with numerophobia tendencies, a scary looking equation. Another says to draw a triangle with each half at 18°. The tip is at the CG...
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    Armored vs thermoplastic Edison plug

    Other than Romex, the only flat cable I can remember terminating was what I thought of as the catenary that supplied power to the shuttle car that delivered pallets to 5 palletizers and both sides of the robotic palletizer. The cranes at the steel mill used a true catenary, wires hung from...
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    Armored vs thermoplastic Edison plug

    I hear what you are saying. The plug I pulled had the ground wire not properly stripped so the insulation was trapped under the screw, the neutral was either not tightened properly or had its insulation trapped since the screw was way loose and the threads were damaged due to heat. The hot lead...
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    Armored vs thermoplastic Edison plug

    I like this. Makes a plug meant for SO fit loose wires in a way that actually provides strain relief and doesn't just mash everything together, hoping for the best. Thank you for the suggestion, Michael
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    Armored vs thermoplastic Edison plug

    They do have the lame 2 screw clamps that I’ve never liked for anything but Romex We use Hubble at work which have the cable width guide on the shell so that you can set the clamp correctly for the cable size. Thing is the instruments are 3 separate conductors in a braid sleeve so a strain...
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    Armored vs thermoplastic Edison plug

    The lights in our space have armored plugs, old school looking things with a full metal jacket. There is a pile of spare instruments in the lighting cage but only one had a plug on it and it was hanging on by the hot wire. The neutral screw was way backed out and the plastic face is a tad...
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    Grid Iron Emergency Medical Plans

    My day job is a food manufacturing plant with 10 65' outdoor silos and a refrigeration system containing over 600 pounds of ammonia. We regularly get multiple departments , not just our local responders, using our facility as a training site. This summer, it looked like touch and go's on the...
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    Blue tooth and dusty phones

    I like my isotunes pro earbuds I've had since 2017. I use them maybe 4 to 10 hours a month. They are still holding a good charge after all this time and show no signs of wear or damage. i have replaced the foam tips once or twice, my ears are pretty clean so they don't get too yucky. I find...
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    Magical props ideas?

    We did Descendants last year. I don’t remember down to specific details right now but I used super cheap Harbor Freight led flashlights as the power source for the wands, that let me have a round handle with removable batteries. I used fairy lights wrapped around the wand as the light source...
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    Hardcover Periaktoi Help

    Children's theater volunteer here. I inherited a set of 8' tall by 32" or so wide peri and made a pair 10' tall to match. At that narrow a base, they tend to be quite tippy. The 10' always have at least 20 pounds of sand in the base and the 8' get ballast if the floor is uneven or it may be...
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    Cool way to make Barbed Wire

    That is clever. I cut zip ties across the width instead of across the thinnest part. It leaves a much less sharp edge.
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    Spike tape on marley floor? Is it ok?

    Thank you for the responses. We will give it a try with gaff tape. This is for blocking for Mary Poppins, I don’t know which scenes nor if there is much dancing going on so colored e tape probably isn’t needed here.
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    Spike tape on marley floor? Is it ok?

    We are wondering if we can use spike tape on the marley floor in our borrowed dance room without causing damage or leaving marks. I'm told it's actual marley, the only thing I know for sure is it's used a dance floor and is cushioned.Michael
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    Temporary outdoor adhesive?

    A bit of knowledge I keep in my back pocket is that alcohol breaks hot melt glue’s bond with the surface it’s stuck to. Probably not useful here though. Is the issue with screwing to the deck or wall that the owners don’t want a thousand random holes? Could you talk them into strategically...
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