Plugs, lamps and clamps are usually minor details not provided. In this case, none would have clamps or lamps but for plugs what ever you want. I have lots of older used plugs in
stock that can't be used with
current stock if you are not too picky. Im not going to
throw away three bucks on a brand new
Bates stage pin plug when at the moment we are going
thru at least a hundred a week and every one of that type counts, but if
stage pin is what you are using, I'll put a Union or other style on it. Same with
Edison, L5-15P or other
plug types. As below with found gear, I acquire all kinds of plugs that are not my
stock style - especially yellow ones. Such a
plug in just about any type would be available. I'm constantly getting green
stage pin plugs of an older style on cable. No idea of who such stuff belongs to but you would think they would note a large amount of their gear not coming back from shows. I don't use green old style plugs so I usually give them away. Heck, if I'm giving a service
call to the fixtures,
send me your school's graphics in about a 1/2"x3" size and I'll even apply it to the
cord under shrink tubing. I do that kind of thing all the time for clients I
build stuff for, we even
stock pre-printed Willow Creek Community Church
heat shrink by the hundreds for them. Speaking of other projects I need to get done this week, I still have a huge amount of cable to be working on for their last
purchase.
Contact me off
line around the end of the week and we will see if I had time to have a look at four by than. I had some larger projects going on for the last month or so and did not have time to keep up with repair cable. Consiquentially I have a large
desk full of it to work on plus a few fixtures and other things.
Wash lights are for what it sounds like. It's a not very much focused
wash of light. A
cyc light or
scoop would be similar instruments as with them work lights in purpose and what they do.
Oh' one more thing available I run across a lot of that I have no use for. (Stepping back onto my normal "you need to
mark your gear" soapbox.)
Microphone cable. Mic cable I get in large amounts of in lengths up to 100'. Anyone needing it should give me a
call and I'll start you a pile or keep my eye out. Also
XLR plugs. I normally save them up for Scott and his kids at "hstech", but I normally get more than he needs on used plugs when at the same time I'm also sending him at least a hundred at a time
XLR plugs without the shells to teach soldering with. (I buy about three hundred
XLR plugs a year just to replace broken or crushed ones already on cable. In other words, I use the metal shell and
throw out or give away to Scott the other parts.)
Switchcraft, non-solder type Neutric,
cannon etc. I don't normally use their plugs so I just
throw them into a box. Same frequently with odd types of
Edison and
Stage pin plugs. When I get a drawer full, I give them away.
If the gear does not have a name and phone number on it and it's thrown into our read boxs during a
strike, there is not much I can do about sending it back unless we know what show it was on - than it has a chance at best only. If it has a name and phone number, we
send it back in the hopes there is a common courtesy on such gear. Not the case in all instances. An entire
road box full of drape that once we tracked down who had it, we got it back with our very visible tags with phone numbers already taken off them. (What did you think we would not miss a few grand worth of
drapes?) You can bet they are black listed from gear exchange.
That figuring out un-marked gear is given it has not been a week or two since the show, or it was not a traveling show where finding people that remember is much harder. Most crew chiefs get home and only spend as many days in the shop as necessary to prep their next show. We are on a normal week talking about at a bare minimum of 10 shows coming back a week if not day so it's hard to keep
track of who's un-marked gear came off which show. It's also given the crew chief or any of the crew is in town if I know the show the gear is from, than that person remembers who did what in the show as to who's gear it might be. Than they were not dicks to the lighting people because frequently I won't get a name that way also. Not worth a lot of effort on my part if the owners did not put the effort into making it easy to get back to them.
Etc. other problems with sending it back. I usually hang onto it for a week or two, than
pitch it or make it ours. I have something like 1,000' of 12/3 SJOOW in something like 200' lengths with
edison plugs on it under a table waiting for someone to claim it. Does not happen a lot that the gear is well marked so I
throw out a lot of cordage and gear - especially mic. cable if it can't be properly marked and become ours. If it's not 12
AWG wire, than it's either trash or in our misc. non-stock cable bin. I don't put into
stock other cable no matter how good of shape it's in or it might get overloaded. Lots of 14/3 and 16/3 goes into the trash if it does not have molded ends. Not worth the effort in inspecting or trusting someone else's wiring skills.
Just had some
XLR cable Friday with white painted plugs and a yellow tape ring on the
cord. Nice, easy to identify your gear as yours, but not easy for anyone else to do so when it appears a hundred miles away on my table. Don't know what show it came off of, much less when it was put there, I just know it's not ours and won't be dependable for lighting data - wrong type of
shield wire.
I get all kinds of gear, it's like the local
stage hands - Wolf, just find the nearest box to
throw stuff marked with a differing company or not at times. Two weeks ago there was two
Clear Com headsets and belt packs that showed up with no markings on them or word of what show they came off of. They were just found in the com gear cabinet. Could probably
call Clear Com and ask for a check according to the searial number on the packs but that's given who ever it "belonged to" bought it directly from them. The lot number for the serial number was only about a year old too. Since nobody on the show called around to other companies looking for their missing gear, much less marked it as theirs so they might get it back, it could not have been that important to them.
Our shop's "old man of the theater" drives around on a roadie scooter that came back from a tour. The thing had some easily corrected electrical problems, and nobody on the tour remembered where it came from or wanted it. Nobody called asking for their scooter and it's now his.
In other words, you never know what I'll either discontinue from
stock like the 16
Egg strobe lights I have sitting in a box in my storage tower waiting to get rid of, to found gear that can't be made
stock. Give me names and addresses of what you are looking for and I'll keep my eyes out and contact you as I see it.