Re: Source 4 Par Lens Storage
I searched all over the Brooklyn and Queens, NY area, for a rolling dish storage cart, used. Found zip, and the new ones are pricey.
I also found that. Way over budget for such carts and none resale I could find. Heard of its use before but don't know who or how they got the.
Over they years my shop did further refinements of it's
road boxes for
lens storage (not quite as extensive as above in space between lenses - more still the stacked
lens concept divided with the 1/4" foam but similar in concept) and this past month re-built the 4x4
lens cart in it breaking down under weight on the drawers. Survived a few years well enough to be time. More the bin concepts than slots for them as different though the above is really sexy. (Don't
send such stuff to my wife or she will want an upgrade and get really frustrated in lack of immediate doing so. She has enough problems with getting more lamp bar carts built without another frustration added to it.)
The pie tin with butterfly latch concept we never took back up. For the most part it's still the
ETC lens boxes in use for shows - but luckily enough for us we have sufficient turn around that there is always a fresh box to replace a bad one. On the other
hand at some points I do remember taking a
PAR 64 lamp box and cutting than putting the cuts into a bench vise so as to induce a fold at a different location when short. Works well enough in using a similar sized box for something else once you induce a fold to it.
Another idea might just be to get replacement
lens kit boxes from
ETC. Moisture/rained on boxes mosty don't see probably won't be a problem for most in simple wear. One simple wear solution one could use I found useful for my
clip light foamed in lamp boxes was to simply
duct tape the heck out of them in making a vinyl coating for them.
Clear tape say for lamp boxes that don't hold up so well
etc. in a few minutes with a tape gun otherwise in making them last longer. Hmm. Philips just changed the printing on their MSR 300/2 Fast Fit lamp boxes... Not better quality and if it gets wet you will get mold spores forming on it - if it don't fall apart first, but gee these are almost as decorative as their former naked lady lamp boxes for the HPA
line. (Kind of boring now white boxes. Nothing to inspire a tech person to change a lamp.) Got their new lamp boxes in and after we wrote serial numbers on the lamps matching those written on the box, we
clear packaging taped up the boxes so they would survive use. Taping up a box does wonders for how long it lasts unless crushed when cardboard. Cheap solution perhaps.
P.S. also use hundreds of the above tubs form spares from tape measures to lamps. A 12" tub can store six gallons of DF-50 fluid safely, a dozen 100' tape measur
etc. in having a few sizes of the tubs. This in even foaming out some of them for storage of A-19 lamps for transport. Totally useful tubs from bolts to computer monitors.[/quote]
