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Sure, I'll see what I can do! The show is running in the last week of June, so should have some photos up sometime in July. :)

Thanks for your input guys, much appreciated. Love some of the creative ideas that you get here including the wine bottle boxes - hadn't even passed through my head! I decided to go with a combination of your responses so for now, I have two big strong storage boxes which I'll layer in some...

We have a much more permenant solution in that one of our team found a wooden shelving unit (3 shelve) which perfectly fits tripod style stands on it!Seems to work quite well, but is painful if you use a lot of stands at once...

Hey folks,So, recently I have produced 20x lamp holders on 5M of cable (with a 15A plug) and an E27 lampholder on the end. These are designed for use in a production we are running in early June.Now that they are all produced, I need some of your thoughts on the best way to store the units...

Nice one josh88! That's solved the mystery then, thanks for that. :)

But 15A plugs don't have fuses?!

Nobody any ideas?...

Thanks David - will have a look soon. :)

Hi all,Bought some new 15A plugs from a supplier and they arrived today. I noticed something odd that I hadn't seen before. A slot in the top where you can see the earth terminal.Very loose speculation makes me think possibly for some kind of earth extension? Presumably these plugs are safe...

Hi David,Can you link us to the data sheet? That would be handy!Thanks.

This is true, however as I bought the relay to control a smoke machine and thought it would be good to have it multipurpose!

Absolutely! Great, thanks for confirming! :) Apologies if it sounded like I was going to join the neutral and earth...definitely not!!

Thanks microstar, so cut a cable and butt splice neutral and earth together respectively then?

Sure, the listing is here: http://goo.gl/gaTX17

Hello!Also, before I continue, I'm in the UK when I reference mains/connectors etc...I recently purchased a 3 channel DMX controlled relay unit with 10A switching per channel. I was wondering if I could create some kind of cable that would enable something like a lamp or prac prop to be...