[SML] Personal Rigging Library

[Richard Niederberg]

Dear Duncan,
Did the 'helper' LEARN from the Experience? What is done differently now?
Please be explicit!
/s/ Richard
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Duncan Mahoney via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

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