I'm hoping this post starts a sort of constant post of what you found and were dumbfounded with in knowng better than, without much comments from others in telling you what's wrong with it unless asked for.
This is a post to add to by those that already know what's wrong and even cite it, they just want to present something that makes them scratch their head in wonder before it does drive them mad.
Humorous posts.
Photos are great but story time is also good. It's a posting that is more what you find and don't accept in knowing better, than one are forced to deal with or allow the use of. Just them wacky tech people proceeding you type of thing.
The lamp in being shown it, I was asked what to do with it. Such a person questioned the lamp but in not knowing any better really will have re-installed it.
Mayhem said:
Ship - don't ever try to tell me that your life is boring!
Would love to hear the reason behind the yokes.
As for the
PAR with altitude sickness, I would put my money on either a broken
wire within the
multicore that supplies the bar. Or a faulty connection in the
junction box.
Check for cable snags/piching when the bar is raised. Is there a
basket or other support for the cable?
This reason for the yokes was given by someone who admitted to having built one of the yokes - though he would never
bend a
yoke centered around a large hole in it at the corner thus only admitted to one while calling the other unsafe. Yes there is stuff he is very qualified for in well over 25 years in the industry, but some things you scratch you head in a "what were you thinking" type of way. On stagecraft recently there was mention about past telepone type tech people in doing interesting things. This person qualifies as someone that spent a little too much time in working for "Ma Bell" before he got into lighting.
While citing his rational for the
yoke as being a budget thing in that they could not afford a long enough piece of steel or aluminum to
bend to shape, much less rivets.
Safety if considered was to take a back seat. Now that there is budget I would hope he would not do similar - hope doing the operative term. Guy is brilliant but like all including me does have his moments.
His
point was the
yoke did hold up with time thus must be safe in being sufficiently done. This given they found at the bottom of an "extra
yoke" bin thus was not used. Others with more sense it would seem were also afraid of them. But those same others afraid of using them were also afraid of getting rid of them
I in being dumb founded by the adimssion I was hard pressed to make the why it's unsafe
point beyond proximity of 1 square inch of aluminum lap jointed material with four two short 3/16" rivets in it which went over his head. I could not adiquatlely show beyond that dumb fasination with his rational. Old man of the theater won that debate in that while some
rivet joints were loose, the
yoke had not as stated fallen apart. Given of course it was no longer in use as the primary reason for that.
I cut them up today for usable scrap parts. Got all of about three sections each 14" worth of aluminum bar from them. The rest was sent to the recycling bin. Just could not fathm such a thing.
In making the yokes larger in width and height, one will have thought a
fixture that was also heavier such that even a used 1/8" x 1" aluminum
yoke/strap off a
Par Can to it will not have been sufficient for the weight. Still dumbfounded for words.
I do hope all find their "old man of the theater" mentours as I have found twice now in a career. You will learn a lot from them about how stuff functions above text
book or so far experience. But I also hope that you once you learn such stuff get to the
point you can seperate experience from lazyness and un-safe hack due to what was "necessary" in the past but no longer suitable.