[SML] Dragging a mailbox across a stage.....

[Steven Hood]

For the UHMW, you could probably order it in from McMaster and have it in 
24 hours or so...


On November 17, 2016 8:07:24 PM Jon Ares via Stagecraft 
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Don Taco via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> I'd use wheels. It takes a lot less of my time and effort to teach an
>> actor to act than it does to repair gouges in my stage floor.
>
>
> Bill:  The floor is masonite (black box).  Steven: Yeah, like Joe says, I
> feel anything 'soft' on the bottom of a leg is going to snag on a seam.
> Joe: furniture glides: I hate-hate-hate the nail-on type - they always get
> snagged and rip off, sometimes leaving a pokey, sharp thing rolling around
> on the stage floor, waiting to stab an actor, or get caught under a caster
> on rolling scenery.  (No rolling scenery this time, but actors crawling
> around on the floor, to be sure.)  Don: no wheels... it's a black box, and
> no amount of acting is going to hide the fact she's roll-dragging a mailbox
> that she allegedly unbolted from the concrete.  (Then apparently took the
> time to fabricate wheels.)   :)
>
> I'm considering some sort of UMHW-type product fastened to angle iron, if
> only I could find a local source for it. (Other than the glue-on/nail-on
> furniture slides, which wouldn't work well when the mailbox is tipped and
> dragged.)
>
>
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