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    Why are rigging inspections important?

    But at some point you have to say "I do not care how much it cost...as I can rebuild this building 100 times, I can not rebuild you..."Just my thought process...take it as you will....Sean...
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    What to use for LED work lights?

    I have used lights from superbrightleds dot com, and pick what suits your needs best....worked well for the fairly large stage I used to work for...Sean...
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    Folding Soft Goods with Fullness

    We would lay them out, Z-fold them, and roll bottom to top, toss in hamper...just our way...Sean...
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    Safety Requirements you may not be following

    I can not....I was thinking more about fire doors....and I do not know the codes nearly as much as I should...In the space I work at, wood blocks would be used to hold the auditorium to lobby doors open, I worked to get door holders put in(friction hold) that could be shut with very little...
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    Safety Requirements you may not be following

    I think most of us have....and its not ok....its a trip hazard...Sean...
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    Raising the Palace Theatre NYC

    Here in Detroit, we move theaters....just a fun story...http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/941Sean...
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    Telrad sight for Source4 Spot Kit

    I just double stickie taped ours on top, of the lens tube, right at the end by the gel clip, seems to work ok for our students...Sean...
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    Ye Olde Rechargeable Battery Conundrum

    If you are using 9v, I use iPower brand batteries, been using them for a couple of years now, get about 8 hours per charge and they are good for 300 cycles. They are expensive, when I started they were $13 ea, and the last time I bought some it was $20 I think...For AA's I also use the...
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    Local custom or standard practice?

    Ask my wif, she would agree...Sean...
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    A Troubleshooting Tale

    Not a skill that anyone seems to teach anymore....On a tour, opener drum tech told that he would get a poke from a studio color every time he passed by and brushed up against it, it sat on the main drum riser ds edge.It did give a poke, a 120v poke, since that light was auto sensing...
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    Local custom or standard practice?

    Little off topic, I did a tour of Oklahoma, thought I'd have a little fun with mult labels, so I used cow-cow, pig-pig, Horse - well, you get the idea....It was terrible, most folks didnt get it, I had to go back and relabel them all A, B, C...., I guess I am not as fun as I thought...Oh...
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    Light Board, and IT Network issues

    IF possible, try and explain to your IT that the console should never be on a network that sees the internet, and that the console and your devices, ea. android app, only want to see each other...There are several threads on here taking about this very subject, print some of them out and show...
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    Drawing programs for IPad.

    We use OmniGraffle, depending on the level of drawings you want/need to do, it may not be what you need, we use it for basic set/stage layouts...nothing fancy....wmmvSean...
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    Roof Collapse - Hampton, VA

    The High School theater I work at is also built on reclaimed swamp land ( I sense a theme here), our pit flooded with about 2' of water, I went to the storage room where the sump pit is (40'+ USR) that has two large sump pumps, and the well was almost dry. Brought in the sump/underground water...
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    Tips for box set using muslin flats?

    That must have been two beefy oxen to drag the shuttle out to the launch pad....On a serious note... Its great that we learn something new every day....Sean...
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