WFair
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I am working on a design for a show that has a large ship. Overall the ship will be about 25 feet long, about 2 feet deep and will have a couple of lightweight masts sticking up above it (attached to the back). There will be several actors standing on the "deck" (the 2' wide portion...safely held in place by rails in front and behind). I am trying to come up with a creative way to have the whole ship pitch in the rough sea. It will only move a few feet up/down, but I want it all to move in tandem as a single unit. I know I can manipulate the weight fairly easily with a long lever arm, but want to place the pivot point of the ship near the middle. I have done MUCH lighter applications before by nesting two steel pipes inside each other and greasing the inside pipe to pivot easily. That said, the total weight of this unit will be around 1500lbs fully loaded, and I am unsure that my pipes approach is the best at this scale. Has anyone successfully placed a horizontal pivot of some sort in a scenic element of this weight and size? Any ideas? Thanks!