[SML] Personal Rigging Library

[Duncan Mahoney]

About 3+ decades ago a lighting designer and set designer "helped me" by putting up a 6' long temporary lighting pipe while I was not in the room...

2 shackled loops of chain over the existing grid, and a couple wraps of gaff tape to prevent the short pipe from sliding out of the chains, could have been OK except that one of them did not loop the chain below the short pipe when installing it, and the way the gaff tape was wrapped, you could not really tell from the floor.

The amazing thing is that the 3 or 4 wraps of gaff tape securing the pipe to the chain held for about a month, through focus,  tech, a few weeks of run, and then had the good grace to fail on a dark day.  Left a 3" deep dent in the stage and didn't do anything good for the lighting instruments.

And people wonder why I'm always double checking their rigging work...


Duncan Mahoney
Director of Technical Direction
Associate Professor of Theatre Practice
University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts




On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

So, not "The Ultimate Duct Tape Book"?  :)
>


Of course not... We use gaff tape, not duct tape.
What are ya, new?




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Dave Vick
Asst. Carpenter / Flyman; "Annie" On Tour '15-'16
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