Agreed, I've been watching these with steadily increasing concern. Almost makes me miss the old days when any threads like this would be shut down instantly. Not that I'm advocating going back to that
point, but it makes it very
clear why that was the policy here for so long.
Dagger, I think we'd all feel a little more comfortable if you'd provide some background behind all of these questions. Looking through your post history, I wonder if maybe you're trying to break into rigging, and posting these questions here is more of a "I saw this on a job, is there a smarter/better/safer way to do it?" If that's the case, I'm sure people would be much more willing to help out and provide constructive criticism. But you have to understand that seeing a hastily-written post about how to rig something with limited resources is going to make a lot of people understandably nervous. If you're actually trying to do what you've written above, and have to ask those questions, then with all due respect, I think you need to find someone more qualified than yourself to do it and/or teach you. Also, not to suggest that learning from books is a suitable substitution for learning on the job, but if you're really interested in this field, Harry Donovan's
book Entertainment Rigging provides very detailed answers to a lot of the questions you have, and I'd highly recommend picking up a copy.
