Preferred pipe size for drops, scrim

[JLNorthGA]

Ordering black scrim and seamless natural muslin drop tomorrow.

Now - what size pipe should I use? I was thinking that 1" pipe should work reasonably well for a scrim and reasonably well for the muslin drop.

Any other suggestions?

 

[techieman33]

To hang the drop off of? Or for bottom pipe?

 

[venuetech]

For a scrim I would use 1/2" pipe. For almost any thing else 3/4"
Most of my bottom pipe is Rigid EMT in 10' sticks.


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[JLNorthGA]

To hang the drop off of? Or for bottom pipe?

Bottom pipe to keep it taut. The battens are 2" pipe.

 

[JLNorthGA]

For a scrim I would use 1/2" pipe. For almost any thing else 3/4"
Most of my bottom pipe is Rigid EMT in 10' sticks.


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Rigid EMT? I was thinking about using black pipe.

 

[techieman33]

1/2" black pipe will be fine for both. I've seen 3/4" used, and don't remember ever seeing anyone using anything bigger.

 

[venuetech]

Black pipe works great also. The EMT is an off the shelf solution as it comes in ten foot sticks, has threads on both ends,and each stick comes with a coupling that is much smaller than a normal one



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[bclighting]

I've used 3/4" black. We cut and threaded it ourselves in 10' sections.

 

[kicknargel]

1/2" (sometimes 3/4") black pipe is pretty standard. However, we often use 1" sq tube (.065) in 10' sections, with a splice of 1/2" black pipe. The splice is spot welded into one end of the square tube, with 12" or so protruding. Then we sleeve that into the next piece, and just wrap a piece of gaff around the joint. No chance of snagging and tearing your pipe pocket, and we've not had a problem feeding them back out.