Long ago and far away, in a Galaxy...... My very first rig was a salt water 6
pac and 12 100w clip lights. It was in 1953 for the March of Dimes. A public employee woman was traveling around the Midwest, making presentations for awareness, donations and prevention of Polio. Picture a six pack of long necks, except they were 1 qt long neck milk bottles, like the milkman used to bring to your door. The six pack carrying case was 1/2" ply. The divider with the hole for a handle was about 12" higher than the top of the bottles. There was a long slot above the mouth of each
bottle. each slot had a long
bolt, probably about 3/16x 4", that ran through the ply and had a spring and washers on the other side, thus one could move the
bolt and knob up and down the slot and it would stay in place when one let go. Each slider had a "big", bare, copper
wire attached, (don't remember how it was attached, but it didn't touch the
bolt holding the slider in place.) The milk bottles were filled with water and 2 table spoons of table salt. Each
bottle had a copper disc about 1" dia. in the bottom, attached to an insulated
wire that came up and out of the
bottle to a
terminal strip on the handle. Flexible wires to the six sliders also went to a second
terminal strip, female receptacles to the clip lights and back to the term strip. The
terminal strip turned the six hot (bottom of
bottle) and six
neutral (bare wires on the sliders) to a single 12 amp
circuit in a standard, 2 prong, ungrounded,
Ground??? 1953???? what are you thinking! un-polarized (that would come years later)
Edison plug.
Not a very big Rig, but very effective for the job and we did some Kick-A** work. I'm still proud of what we did on that gig.
