ETC cast clamps are garbage, as are all other cast C-clamps(G-clamps?) They damage truss, and they are much more likely to crack and drop your fixture and a chunk of metal. Old school stagehands love them though, because old people hate change, they are too lazy to hold the weight of a fixture while closing a half-coupler, and taking longer to do something is good when you get paid by the hour.
The light source has a variety of good clamps. For any conventional I choose a Half-coupler(mega coupler) that through bolts, and uses a belville washer.
I have the mini-claws for some things, and I would not but them again. They get stuck closed on a pipe, the T-handle gets in the way on truss, and if you have a fixture with two clamps, its hard to remove the fixture from a truss. Mega claw, or slim claw all the way.
Also, no wingnuts on Mega Couplers, aluminum block style nut.
If your hanging to pipe not truss ETC clamps do fine. I am the same age as you, and have never had any issues with hanging lights quickly: I can do 2 to 3 conventionals a min if I try.ETC cast clamps are garbage, as are all other cast C-clamps(G-clamps?) They damage truss, and they are much more likely to crack and drop your fixture and a chunk of metal. Old school stagehands love them though, because old people hate change, they are too lazy to hold the weight of a fixture while closing a half-coupler, and taking longer to do something is good when you get paid by the hour.
The light source has a variety of good clamps. For any conventional I choose a Half-coupler(mega coupler) that through bolts, and uses a belville washer.
I have the mini-claws for some things, and I would not but them again. They get stuck closed on a pipe, the T-handle gets in the way on truss, and if you have a fixture with two clamps, its hard to remove the fixture from a truss. Mega claw, or slim claw all the way.
Also, no wingnuts on Mega Couplers, aluminum block style nut.
I'm pretty happy with most clamps I've used with the exception of these ones
I just don't trust these, and the space I found them in was using them for fixtures over the audience. Made it my personal goal to get as many of them out of the air as possible.
ETC cast clamps are garbage, as are all other cast C-clamps(G-clamps?) They damage truss, and they are much more likely to crack and drop your fixture and a chunk of metal. Old school stagehands love them though, because old people hate change, they are too lazy to hold the weight of a fixture while closing a half-coupler, and taking longer to do something is good when you get paid by the hour.
The light source has a variety of good clamps. For any conventional I choose a Half-coupler(mega coupler) that through bolts, and uses a belville washer.
I have the mini-claws for some things, and I would not but them again. They get stuck closed on a pipe, the T-handle gets in the way on truss, and if you have a fixture with two clamps, its hard to remove the fixture from a truss. Mega claw, or slim claw all the way.
Also, no wingnuts on Mega Couplers, aluminum block style nut.
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