<div dir="ltr">The basic problem would, like air casters, be the floor. I'm guessing these automated pallet paddles have relatively small steel wheels and would not play well with most stage floors. Maybe some of the engineered wood materials would work. There used to be a product called lami-floor, thatI had used on a couple of stages. It was developed for factory floor recovering and its ability to hold up to steel casters was a main feature.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 9:26 AM Mick Alderson via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Johnny Amos wrote<br>
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> This reminds me of when Tolomatic advertised in Theatre Crafts Magazine. I hadn?t thought of them in years.<br>
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> I wonder how many other industrial products could be used in the theatre.<br>
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Well, considering practically everything we use onstage was stollen … I mean borrowed and modified … from some other industry so I’m sure we aren’t done. ;-)<br>
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Mick Alderson<br>
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