I'm trying to make sense of the current best practice on flying multiple broadway flats. Like the title implies, I've got a few flats that I'm joining and flying. In the past I've used bottom hangers on each corner of a flat, but in this show we need a larger wall and it makes sense to join multiple flats. I've seen in a few books that indicate that one bottom hanger can be sufficient to suspend two flats at the joint, but I don't see exactly how one would bolt through both flats with one hanger iron.
I was thinking a stiffener between the two might help, but the hanger iron is pretty tight in there as these are hard flats (so luan, 1x, corner block and it's snug). Is there a piece of hardware that makes this joining easier or should I just stick with running two lines close together? I'm wondering if a plate under the bottom corner of both flats would help? That would aid in keeping everything in compression.
I was thinking a stiffener between the two might help, but the hanger iron is pretty tight in there as these are hard flats (so luan, 1x, corner block and it's snug). Is there a piece of hardware that makes this joining easier or should I just stick with running two lines close together? I'm wondering if a plate under the bottom corner of both flats would help? That would aid in keeping everything in compression.