Recent content by Richard Green

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    Loosening bolts before landing truss on ground

    Yep. This falls under the category of "I can't believe nobody thought of this before!!!! " They did. There's a reason nobody does it this way. All the previous posts have it dead on. It's a shortcut that takes twice as long- IF everything goes right.
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    knot for cable pick

    The correct knot is generally whatever one you can tie one handed in your sleep. But since a cable pick can vary from a single Cat 6 cable dropped 12 feet to enough soca and feeder to snap a piece of 12" box truss (yes this happened on a TV show a year or two back) there's obviously no one...
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    Rotating Wedge Platform

    It's neither impossible nor even slightly difficult to put your pivot at the corner of your wedge platform. All your pivot needs to be is a sufficiently substantial steel pin dropped either right into the deck or into a plywood pad screwed to the deck. If your theatre doesn't have the ability...
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    Enlengthening SpanSets more longerer

    Huh. First - I somehow had never noticed that a standard static line was also woven - I guess since the ends generally are melted when you cut them I had been labouring under the delusion that the strands ran parallel to each other much like in a sling - which is why I specified a kernmantle...
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    Scaffold for followspots

    You're not wrong...as in all things, use the solution that fits your particular case. That having been said, they make some pretty ridiculously HD scissor lifts. Here in Toronto that's the solution used at Echo Beach right on the shore of Lake Ontario, and while windy, the wind is not usually a...
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    Enlengthening SpanSets more longerer

    I must be missing something. Doesn't a roundsling and rope (ok, I assume we're just talking kernmantle ropes these days) behave EXACTLY the same way? That is to say....they both have an exterior shell providing abrasion relief for an inner core of independent fibers carrying the load that will...
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    Scaffold for followspots

    Stumbling across this a year or so late but surprised nobody mentioned scissor lifts. In many situations it's a quicker pre-engineered solution to a temp followspot platform.
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    Pneumatic Wheel Lowering

    huh. Apparantly "Those things are the sh*t" got autocorrected to "Those things are the crap" which is not a phrase that makes sense in English. Weird.
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    Pneumatic Wheel Lowering

    @thecoin : Throw away the toggle brakes? Heresy!!! Just take them away from the stage carps and give them to the scenic carps to build jigs with. Those things are the crap.
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    Favorite laser?

    Huepar, Bought them off Amazon, and while a cheap Chinese product always raises eyebrows, these seem well built. I now own two line lasers and a disto by them and they arrived working accurately and bright and two years in durable. Can't beat it for the price. Also looks like the 3x360 i bought...
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    CM quick connect hooks

    Little late to the party but for anyone who stumbles across this...these are effectively a carabiner, and both carabiners and hooks are intended for inline load application only. Perfectly safe if so used, but NOT for bridle/multiple legs, not at any angle. As long as these are used as intended...
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