I once saw a show where they used wire rope stretched tight. It was in view of the audience so they tightened it up to try and make it not droop in the center.
As I remember they pulled the concrete anchors right out of the wall.
@JChenault Not to veer TOO far. In a similar manner, a friend used to borrow a local goup's
mirror ball once a year for his church's annual young peoples' party. The
mirror ball was a British Furse approximately 24" in diameter, aluminum and glass (not plastic) covered, with a 120 volt internal rotator; not exactly a light weight orb. Year after year, one of his church members would stretch plastic coated clothes
line perhaps 60' across the width of the curch from a polished brass
hand rail on one choir loft to its mate on the opposite side. My buddy was a bus
driver who worked until 1:30 a.m. Keith would finish work then go to his church around 2:00 a.m. and use a 12' ladder to suspend the
mirror ball from the center
point of the taught clothesline then spiral an extension
cord around the taught
line to a 120 volt
receptacle in one of the choir lofts.
The first few years, he borrowed a pair of 6 x 22
Altman 360Q's and hung one on either choir loft
hand rail to cross light the ball, often in green and red for Christmas.
After getting away with this for several years, Keith wanted to up the
intensity on the ball by eliminating the
Altman 6 x 22's and replacing them with a pair of small
ACL pars c/w 120 to 24 volt transformers. The pair of
ACL's, and their transformers, were added to the taught clotheline approximately 3 or 4 feet either side of the
mirror ball. A second extension
cord was spiraled out with a
two-fer added to
power the
ACL's. A
Variac was positioned
in one of the choir lofts to vary the
intensity of the
ACL's.
Keith wasn't using any old extension cords, no. Keith was borrowing 12 or 14-3 black Cabtire with Twist locks, a
twist lock two-fer and three twist to parallel blade adapters to
power the ball rotator and
ACL's.
Miraculously Keith and his young peoples' group got away with this for another year or two.
Keith wanted to up his game one more time. The local
amateur group didn't own any color scrollers or wheels but Keith knew where he could borrow two more
ACL's. One night / morning, Keith rolled in after work at 2:00 a.m. and hung four
ACL's, two either side of the
mirror ball. Each
ACL had its own step down
transformer and Keith borrowed a second
Variac so he could swap color pairs from within one of the choir lofts.
Think about it: The taught plastic coated clothesline sagged a little more each year becoming essentially a 160 degree
bridle 60'
bridle supporting a 24" glass covered
mirror ball with its internal rotator, plus four
ACL's, each with their own step down
transformer.
The first year Keith hung four
ACL's, he vacated around 4:30 a.m. with everything neat and tidy prior to the cleaners arriving around 6:00 a.m.
The cleaners were somewhat surprised to find a
mirror ball and four
ACL's et al in the middle of the church's central aisle in a tangled mess.
The priests were STARTLED to find one of the polished brass
hand rails torn from its choir loft and laying
in one of the church's side aisles.
I'm sure I've posted of this at least once before, perhaps
@egilson1 and / or
@What Rigger? would care to comment
??
Had this not been a church with God watching, she likely would've let the whole abortion fail several years sooner.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard