Recent content by SweetBennyFenton

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Hello all,I'm currently doing a deep dive into my lighting inventory and I came across this absolute beast. It's in great shape but has no identifiable markings. Anyone recognize it?

Thank you all for the good advice. I may have even found a used 40 gallon electric kettle locally.One thing I didn't think of (and has not been planned into the renovation) is a vent hood. I'll do some more research on that line.Thanks again.

Hello all.I am happy to say that this summer my shop space will be renovated. Part of that renovation is the creation of a dye lab where people can work on dyeing and distressing without having to be in the Costume Shop. This lab also includes funding for a large dye vat. Problem is... I'm...

Ha! Those are old Electro Controls boxes. I had 8 of those in my stage until a recent renovation. I keep one of the old ones on my wall as a memento.

What Rigger... the majority of my designers are students. They will sometimes fall behind and have to make up some work out of their own time but I also try to work with them before they turn in their plots and catch them if they are being too ambitious. All of my workers are students too so...

I teach lighting at a small college. Our focus time is budgeted simply by the days available and the hours when crew is in. My designers get 2 days to focus with 5 hours of work a day. If they can't get the show focused in that 10 hours, then they loose their crew members and have to make up...

Thank you for helping me put a name to what I'm looking for. Now if I could just find one of these already built into an extension cord or receptacle, I'd be set.A retracting cord would make a good plan B.We had originally looked at using a battery for the power source but some of the...

Hello all.The current show I am working on mostly consists of a 12'x12' turntable that the set is built on top of. We need to to run a single circuit of constant power to that unit without hindering its ability to spin. Current idea is to drop a single cable to the center of the unit from...

Hey all.My next show includes a 12' square revolve that will need to take a good deal of weight. It will be powered by stagehands, so I don't need to build in any mechanism to turn it. Because it is square though, I'm thinking of building it with the casters down and using 4 heavy-duty zero...

From what I read, there were complaints made to the city about the space. An inspector had even tried to gain entry recently. I don't know much about this situation but it doesn't seem that the city was negligent.While looking through the pictures of that space, I was struck by two very...

My program is in the process of experimenting with using google docs for digital scripts. We've had some success and some frustrations but the experiment continues.Frustrations: - Getting the script into a google doc can be hard if there is no way to copy/paste from another source. We've had...