Return-Path: X-Processed-By: Virex 7 on prxy.net X-Real-To: stagecraftlist [at] theatrical.net Received: by prxy.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.2.10) with PIPE id 21277720; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:01:32 -0800 X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 4.2.10 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: Message-ID: From: "Stagecraft" Sender: "Stagecraft" To: "Stagecraft" Precedence: list Subject: Stagecraft Digest #339 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:01:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on prxy.net X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.4f2 X-prxy-Spam-Filter: Scanned For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- Stagecraft Digest, Issue #339 1. Re: 240/120 balancing (Was: Wild Leg & was Boombox suggestions) by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com 2. Re: Surfboard by "Robert G. Anderson" 3. Re: Wild Leg (was Re: Boombox suggestions) by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com 4. Re: Wild Leg (was Re: Boombox suggestions) by "Mt. Angel Performing Arts" 5. Re: Email address harvesting by "Tony" 6. Re: [Show-Control] Stage Expo photos by CB 7. Re: Email address harvesting by John McKernon 8. Re: ETCP Handbook by CB 9. Bad D-Link by Jerry Durand 10. Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner by Brian Munroe 11. Re: Boombox suggestions by Brian Munroe 12. Re: Bad D-Link by "Delbert Hall" 13. Re: ETCP Handbook by "Michael Finney" 14. Re: 240/120 balancing (Was: Wild Leg & was Boombox suggestions) by "Carson Koz Noel at LSFX Co." 15. Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner by Greg Bierly 16. Re: Email address harvesting by "C. Dopher" 17. Re: Gerber repair by "Paul Guncheon" 18. Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner by "CrewCall" *** Please update the subject line of your reply to use the subject *** line of the message you are replying to! Please only reply to *** one message subject in each reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: <1c6.24f29ae7.2f71fe81 [at] aol.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:04:33 EST Subject: Re: 240/120 balancing (Was: Wild Leg & was Boombox suggestions) In a message dated 22/03/05 19:13:59 GMT Standard Time, dale [at] cybercom.net writes: > This is a much more complex issue and I'm handwaving lots of stuff. > As for your bulbs burning out, my experience is that many of the cheap > fluorescent fixtures have a rather short half-life, and don't stand up to > extremes that they should be designed and built to cope with. There > are also other factors like vibration and ambient temperature that will > severely shorten bulb life. There are tolerances built into the power companies' specifications, around the nominal numbers. Plus or minus 5% is not unusual; 10% is possible. This means that equipment must be designed to handle these. Frank Wood ------------------------------ Message-ID: <010901c52f34$adbd5b00$d1b2a80c [at] 0016599365> From: "Robert G. Anderson" References: Subject: Re: Surfboard Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:12:49 -0600 If you go to the following website, you will find a book that'll tell you all you ever wanted to know about surfboards...... http://www.transmediapublishing.com/site/pages/otherproducts.html ------------------------------ From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:26:07 EST Subject: Re: Wild Leg (was Re: Boombox suggestions) In a message dated 22/03/05 19:56:10 GMT Standard Time, jdurand [at] interstellar.com writes: > In the USA the neutral is tied to ground both at the "fuse" box and at the > power transformer on the pole. Our residential mains feed here consists of > the two legs (240V between them) and a ground wire, it doesn't even HAVE a > neutral. > > Due to the center-tapped nature of our power here, you have to be VERY sure > your neutral is securely tied to ground. I pass. This sounds like desperately insanitary engineering, and unsafe, into the bargain. Maybe not. Maybe you have learnt to live with it, But I still like to know the PD between a live cable and the neutral. Within tolerances, In Uk numbers, I expect 230V +/- 5%. Frank Wood ------------------------------ Message-ID: <020701c52f39$28dde800$650fa8c0 [at] veronica> From: "Mt. Angel Performing Arts" References: Subject: Re: Wild Leg (was Re: Boombox suggestions) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:44:55 -0800 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Stagecraft" Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Wild Leg (was Re: Boombox suggestions) > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see > --------------------------------------------------- > > In a message dated 22/03/05 19:56:10 GMT Standard Time, > jdurand [at] interstellar.com writes: > > > In the USA the neutral is tied to ground both at the "fuse" box and at the > > power transformer on the pole. Our residential mains feed here consists > of > > the two legs (240V between them) and a ground wire, it doesn't even HAVE a > > neutral. > > > > Due to the center-tapped nature of our power here, you have to be VERY > sure > > your neutral is securely tied to ground. > > I pass. This sounds like desperately insanitary engineering, and unsafe, into > the bargain. Maybe not. Maybe you have learnt to live with it, But I still > like to know the PD between a live cable and the neutral. Within tolerances, In > Uk numbers, I expect 230V +/- 5%. > > > > Frank Wood Point of clarification: The neutral is the GROUNDED conductor, but the GROUND is the GROUNDING conductor. A single phase USA service is 120 -0 -120 to ground, with the neutral connected to ground at the pole and one place at the service entrance. The power company supplies the two 'hot' legs and the neutral, we create a ground at our service entrance or service disconnect by making an earth ground and bonding it to the neutral. We run separated neutral and ground to all outlets - the neutral is a current carrying conductor (if the main legs are unbalanced, the neutral carries the difference) but the Grounding conductor (either a separate wire in a cable or the raceway in a metallic system) carries only fault current. Carla ------------------------------ Message-ID: <004b01c52f3b$7e916180$0800000a [at] Tony> From: "Tony" Cc: ish [at] twcny.rr.com References: Subject: Re: Email address harvesting Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:01:36 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Stagecraft" Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Email address harvesting > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see > --------------------------------------------------- > > I'm a Community Theater Actor/Director by night - Computer Security Engineer by day... > > Many of these viruses/worms out there try to hide which of your friends are REALLY infected. So they grab the victim's address book, internet cache and a number of other places. Then they send infected payload from one address it has found - to another address that it has found. So the actual infected person's email address never appears on the email (so recipients can't reply to the actually infected person and warn them.) > > Since it grabs every email address it can find (inculding bad ones, even from pages the victim surfed to that are in the internet cache) the virus often bounces, but if it was forged to come from YOU... then you get the bounced message. > > Spammers also use this trick to send out mass emails in your name (once they have harvested it, which yes under CAN-SPAM is against the law) rather than their own address (back to that hiding from the law thing again) and they cause LOTS of bounces. > > Yup. As I have e-mail addresses on our theatre web site, I tend to get a HUGE amount of spam generated as a result (most of which is caught by the Yahoo filters, however). Because of the way the domain is set up, if you were to send anything to anything at abbeytheatre dot co dot uk, it would end up in my in-box. I get quite a few messages from end-servers and spam-traps telling me that something like dotty-lottie at abbeytheatre etc has been spiked from their 'acceptable sender' lists, and please stop spamming them! Ynot ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20050323013827.016ede40 [at] pop.west.cox.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:38:27 From: CB Subject: Re: [Show-Control] Stage Expo photos >I'm getting nothing. >"Operation timed out when trying to contact www.jdurand.no-ip.org" Nevermind... I got it next time I went after it. Chris "Chris" Babbie Location Sound MON AZ Delete key training and post trimming done by appointment. Rates negotiable, will trade for typing lessons/ADD treatment... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:42:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Email address harvesting From: John McKernon Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > As I have e-mail addresses on our theatre web site, I tend to get a HUGE > amount of spam generated as a result (most of which is caught by the Yahoo > filters, however). That's how john [at] mckernon.com got ruined - it was exposed in clear text on my web site for a couple of months. Now I use a graphic picture of the email address, and that's kept most of my current email addresses safe, even without spam filters. - John ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20050323014227.016ede40 [at] pop.west.cox.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:42:27 From: CB Subject: Re: ETCP Handbook > Bill >Sapsis replied that there was not and even I would not be >disenfranchised if I qualified. ;) This is why they decided to go with the small font. No matter what your age, you won't be descriminated against, but if you can't see the handbook... For those of you with a less than stellar sense of humor, this is a joke. This is only a joke. Had this been an actual situation, you would have been told where to go and what color handbasket you'd be in. Chris "Chris" Babbie Location Sound MON AZ Delete key training and post trimming done by appointment. Rates negotiable, will trade for typing lessons/ADD treatment... ------------------------------ Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050322171236.029f8120 [at] localhost> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:13:57 -0800 From: Jerry Durand Subject: Bad D-Link The D-Link router crashed again, so it goes back for refund. I just got a new Belkin "pre-N" router with 3 diversity antennas for the wireless part. Cost more, looks nice. I'll be down for a bit while installing it. ---------- Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 219 Oak Wood Way Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA tel: +1 408 356-3886 fax: +1 408 356-4659 web: www.interstellar.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:19:36 -0800 From: Brian Munroe Reply-To: Brian Munroe Subject: Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner In-Reply-To: References: Ian, that is indeed an interesting catalogue. But admit it, you guys are just making words up over there in the UK. BTW, here is something that I have seen in my travels around the states, but never seen in a catalogue before: http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/Cleats__Clutches___Rope_Locks.html On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:43:41 -0000, Ian Cunningham wrote: > Not cheap but its a quality tool that you'll find hard to break. - their > podgers are damn near indestructable > > Flints catalogue is a goldmine of useful theatrical gubbins Brian Munroe bpmunroe [at] gmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:39:13 -0800 From: Brian Munroe Reply-To: Brian Munroe Subject: Re: Boombox suggestions In-Reply-To: References: Apparently a had a flash of dyslexia, because I was sitting here trying to figure out how a BOX-BOOM could play mp3s. :) Brian Munroe bpmunroe [at] gmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Delbert Hall" Subject: RE: Bad D-Link Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:15:46 -0500 Jerry - I have had a Belkin Pre-N router since Christmas - I LOVE IT. Very fast, incredible distance, excellent security, and not too difficult to install and configure. I have had zero problems since installing mine. I think you will like it too. -Delbert Delbert L. Hall 423-773-HALL (4255) > >The D-Link router crashed again, so it goes back for refund. I just got a >new Belkin "pre-N" router with 3 diversity antennas for the wireless part. >Cost more, looks nice. I'll be down for a bit while installing it. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: ETCP Handbook Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:07:35 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Michael Finney" On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 Bill Sapsis wrote (in response to a post from Peter Scheu): <> What Bill said! A couple of other admittedly biased thoughts (I'm on the council with Bill): One of the other areas that ESTA is working on is a "body of knowledge" for an essential skills qualification for entry level entertainment technicians. I think this is a good example of how they've been addressing the reality that our industry has a wide variety of people working in a wide variety of areas with a wide variety of skill sets and experience. =20 I think most of us can agree that there's a certain level of experience, knowledge and skill that is required to function at an entry level in any area of our industry. There's yet *another* level of experience, skill, and knowledge that is required to advance and work safely at a higher level - especially in any number of specialties. Eventually, you reach a level where an individual can be safely assumed to assume a leadership role in working in his or her specialty anywhere, any time. In my personal opinion, there's an advantage to both employers and employees to identify those different levels in some fashion. Again speaking personally, I think that ESTA made an excellent choice in identifying overhead rigging as a prime situation where identifying and certifying those individuals with the knowledge, skill, and experience to perform a high risk task at the highest levels was warranted. As an employer, there is going to be a real advantage to me to know that an individual that I'm considering for a particular position where this skill is required has been examined by an independent body and found to be fully qualified in that specialty. It certainly will make my lawyer and insurer happy. I'm not saying that it's going to be an "absolute" situation - there are certainly people out there that I know are unquestionably qualified riggers who may or may not be certified when I need them - but I'd hope they would make the effort to qualify as an ESTA Certified Rigger in the future. It can only be an advantage to both them and me. As Peter said, I'd encourage anybody with an interest in this on-going process to check in on the ESTA website. I think the whole process shows a level of commitment to the development of our particular branch of the industry (a development under *our* control, rather than some outside agency) that is to be commended, encouraged, and supported. Putting the soapbox back in the Knack box.... Michael Finney Thinkwell Design & Production mfinney [at] thinkwelldesign.com www.thinkwelldesign.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <001101c52f56$14c03180$0501a8c0 [at] Kozmain1> Reply-To: "Carson Koz Noel at LSFX Co." From: "Carson Koz Noel at LSFX Co." References: Subject: Re: 240/120 balancing (Was: Wild Leg & was Boombox suggestions) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:12:00 -0700 Organization: LSFX Co. The wild leg is a high volt leg from a "delta phase" wound transformer. It is used in an industrial application specifically for motors and HVAC. The high leg is primarily for the starter and brake section of the motor. Some older elevators also use this electrical configuration. The higher voltage allows the motor to start and stop better under load. To quote Mr. Wolpert again... Like the bumper sticker says "WIRING IS NOT A HOBBY" Carson "Koz" Noel, III Light and Sound FX Co. / LSFX 5832 E. Camden Street Tucson, AZ 85712 Koz [at] LSFXCo.com www.LSFXCo.com Phone - 520.419.4529 Fax - 520.296.9751 *** This communication is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain privileged and/or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you have received this communication in error, please send reply to above email address or phone.*** ------------------------------ In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: From: Greg Bierly Subject: Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:27:00 -0500 > here is something that I have seen in my travels around the > states, but never seen in a catalogue before: > http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/Cleats__Clutches___Rope_Locks.html > Brian Munroe That is what we have been referring to as a rope lock or an "uncle buddy". I don't think I have ever seen one for sale. Every one I have see has been homemade. Greg Bierly Technical Director Hempfield HS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:12:38 -0500 Subject: Re: Email address harvesting From: "C. Dopher" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Frank Wood writes: > There are other strange things which happen occasionally, too. I sometimes > get bounce messages, with the usual 'this address has permanent fatal errors'. > The trouble is, IT'S MY OWN ADDRESS! I don't send e-mail to myself, So I'm > baffled. Any thoughts? Karma, Frank. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:52:27 -1000 From: "Paul Guncheon" Subject: Re: Gerber repair Message-id: <000b01c52f7d$43c81250$0202a8c0 [at] yourxhtr8hvc4p> References: <> Upon writing to them yesterday, I received an immediate reply (and apology for not informing me of their receipt of the knives) that Gerber is"in the process of accommodating your service requests." Laters, Paul I also must most humbly apologize to the list for omitting the traditional "Tom Swiftie" from my post yesterday. I don't know what came over me... I shall do my best to prevent future omissions. Here's two: "They are not answering - we'd better try the knocker," said Tom adoringly. "It's half a score," Tom said often. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <002901c52f8d$3e2b3380$0100a8c0 [at] tricia> From: "CrewCall" References: Subject: Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:46:52 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Cunningham" To: "Stagecraft" Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Ratchet box wrench\spanner | | You're looking for a quad spanner and you can get them from Flints in London | | http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/Flints_Online__Quad_Spanner_108.html | | has 13mm (M8), 17mm (M10) ,19mm (M12) and 21mm (scaff) | | Not cheap but its a quality tool that you'll find hard to break. - their | podgers are damn near indestructable | | Flints catalogue is a goldmine of useful theatrical gubbins | | Ian Cunningham | Solus Technical Services | | Thanks Ian, Now why did I not think of Flints! Most tool don't break just grow legs and walk out of the loading bay. Now all I have to do is find some one to pay for the replacement :)) Chris ------------------------------ End of Stagecraft Digest #339 *****************************