I tend to think of Teflon tape (other than the high temp electrical type of it) as pipe wrap tape and
Plumbers tape as stuff you might hang a pipe from.
Just me of course and yes it is confusing. On the other
hand, those in my ball
park want a bat by my definition of it, they get a bat. They really want a ball but said bat, they either get and live with that bat or start calling it a ball by way of re-education on their part. Works wonders this standardization of terms. These my proper terms as normally the proper definition in me having to order and buy the stuff thus calling it what the suppliers
call it as perhaps most proper, or subject to change if proved wrong but still as the buyer and supplier the official proper term for the product.
Gripple,
Grapple... big difference.
All started years ago when people were requesting
ETC lamps. Yep they started getting
ETC lamps and darned if they didn't fit into a
Leko.
'
Truss tape", do you mean a 3" width
roll of jute or yellow caution tape so as to
mark on it the distance between various fitures on the
truss for pre-marking
layout, or do you mean a
taper measure taped to the
truss so as to as the
truss raises up
level it to a certain distance from the
deck? Still working on those requesting such a concpet.
Ah' the professional tech person... terms abound in requesting stuff at times in local slang. Been requested recently to be nice to the recruited free lance person fcrew chief from another company in asking for Mole Light
ACL lamp spares. Heck no, they need to start speaking our language in becoming a pro, specific to what they want as a pro and that's how everyone learns how to request gear in if they want gear they had at best define suffiently what they want so as to get the proper gear. In the case of a Mole light, they are available
in one, six and nine light versions we
stock and are used on tours. This being Mole Richardson brand lighting fixtures if "Mole" in request.
Given like six or ten tours at any
point in time out at any
point, heck if I could remember what person has what specific gear but what I do know is that a Mole Richardson
fixture as per "Mole" in what we
stock of them won't in any way support a
PAR 36'
ACL lamp by way of type of
lampholder or in-series distribution of the lamps properly. This was replied to as a "contridiction in terms" and needed firther spefic information on the request.
Could it be instead an "
Audience Blinder"
fixture such as a Thomas eight, four or two light
fixture this person is attempting to re-lamp? This given a
PAR 36 lamp, typically for us a #4596 is not persay a
ACL lamp either but a sealed beam lamp instead. If the case in being confused about
fixture or term, was he really meaning
ACL or DWE in lamp type needed? Perhaps were ever he was from he called
audience blinder fixtures
ACL's too given they were seemingly Mole Lights.
Short memory of shows currently out at the time had one show having SBL lamps in use, many audience blinders and a few with Mole Light audience blinders in use. Which
fixture was he using and after that, which if
audience blinder configuration was he using low series or
line voltage parallel?
As opposed to being nice' persay, I shortly got a reply back in asking for #4596 lamps and thats' what the the person requesting them got as opposed to FCX, DWE, or as in
stock and possible up to 26 types of
PAR 36 lamp in
stock I could furnish, this much less in general as also stocked and in use is
PAR 64 Mole Richardson and Bardwell & McAllister
MAC Tech 12 Light fixtures using completely different lamps yet also in service.
Lessen learned in being specific now what length and
breaking strength cable tie do you want amongst all sizes stocked. Not a
truss pin for X section of a folding
truss... I
stock truss pins not specific to a part, is it say a 3/8" dia. by 3" pin with ring or somethign else in defining it by what it is? Need some cable to replace the
whip on a
Mac 2K... or a
crimp for it... that's nice, what type of cable or
crimp would you like to use? Parts is parts and in general I don't
stock them as a unique say
Martin crimp terminal as opposed to what say a Robie might use if the same.
Qualified tech person perhaps need to be handed the keys to the store room in "help yourself" or a McMaster Carr catalogue in figuring out what they want at times in asking for what they want as universal term as opposed to what they
call it or what they think they want. Train early or work on refining, don't just
settle for what's requested.... ask or if time in giving what might be wrong such as
plumbers tape, they learn your term.