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<font face="Arial">For Spelling Bee last year we did one similar to
what Don said. It was just a plain 3'x4' table. We built the
table, cut it in half but put in a safety latch that was pulled
just before the crash happened.<br>
Worked well for us.<br>
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John 'JT' Taylor<br>
Production Manager<br>
Kirkwood Theatre Guild<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/2018 8:59 AM, Don Taco via
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<div>I think I'd try to sell the idea of a drop-leaf table with
the mechanism disabled or removed, patched together with just
enough balsa struts to hold it together until impact. You
might still destroy a table, but it could be reset nightly,
and would always break cleanly, without ragged cut edges, and
look good when restored.. </div>
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<div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Paul Anderson via
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SML] Break-away table<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">I thought breaking the whole table
was a bit over doing it as well. Not sure if he wants
that sort of melodrama or what. This is in ongoing
discussion at this point. Just looking for possible ideas
for construction.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">I'm hoping that I don't have to build
a whole bunch of tables. But just one with a couple
replaceable parts that break.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:20 PM,
dale <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>Never tried building one myself. You want to
literally break the entire table in half or just
break some of the boards of the tabletop? I
will observe that in real fights with normal tables
the things that normally break (other than the bones
of the fighters) are the legs of the tables. </div>
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<div>The old West movie saloon fight scenes tended to
use ordinary tables from the cheap furniture store
with key structural parts mostly sawn through. The
stuntmen would wear padding under their costumes and
land exactly where the cuts had been placed. </div>
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<div> The chairs that got smashed over someone's
head were made with balsa wood, also with precut
weak points so that even with their low mass, they
would still smash nicely. Also, the old West movies
could do things in those preOSHA days that we cant
do now. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">Think round and old west
and saloon.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">What if I wanted a table
that could break in two with a [fake] head
slam? </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">More or less normal
construction with a balsa board down the
middle?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">Normal-ish construction
with a saw cut (or crooked) break across the
middle held by thin strips of something like
pine ore lauan underneath?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">If it has side rails-as
many/most tables do-they would have to be able
to pull away from legs or also break.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
verdana,sans-serif;">I haven't seen much in
terms of how-to info online that didn't look
just plain hokey. Has someone done this other
than the movies or is there a URL for better
information than what I have come across so
far?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:
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Anderson<br>
Technical Director for Theater<br>
Hope College<br>
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Technical Director for Theater<br>
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Holland, MI<br>
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