<div dir="ltr">Many formally proprietary names have slipped into the Public Domain by extensive usage by the public.<div>/s/ Richard</div><div>_________</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Bruce Purdy via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Bill Sapsis wrote:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">You cannot choke both ends of a roundsling. You can choke one end but the other end will require a shackle or a similar device.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Is that a safety rule, or a practicality matter? Normally I can see where you can’t choke both ends, but with a short “sub batten,” it seems like you could form a choke and slide the pipe in. Of course you wouldn’t have any adjustment, but would that be wrong to do?<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">My concern with using a roundsling is that it could possibly slip along the pipe. As I’m sure you’ve seen, people, especially kids, love to grab on to legs and pull them around. They could conceivably pull the leg hard enough to pull the sub-pipe out of the sling. Yeah, I know it’s a bit farfetched but it could happen.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>If the legs are tied to the sub batten on both sides of each Spanset (er, excuse me - Roundsling) then it should be effectively locked in place.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">With a chain/shackle/batten clamp assembly it can’t possibly happen. I like that a lot better.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I’d certainly agree that this would be a better solution for a permanent situation. I’m just curious about the above.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">*Spanset is a brand name that is sometimes used as the generic name for synthetic roundslings. I’ve got nothing against Spanset but I do prefer to call rigging equipment by it’s proper name. Makes for better accuracy. I like accuracy.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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