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Stagecraft Digest, Issue #656

 1. Re: Racks Alot
    by <dale [at] cybercom.net>
 2. Re: Rocks (was Scenery and Flame Retardant)
    by StevevETTrn [at] aol.com
 3. Re: Scenery and Flame Retardant
    by <dale [at] cybercom.net>
 4. Re: Strand 300 boot-up
    by "Bryan H. Ackler" <backler [at] ix.netcom.com>

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Message-ID: <9bc4770ffa9fd2a7920598ee733007f3 [at] cybercom.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:26:29 -0500
From:  <dale [at] cybercom.net>
Subject: Re: Racks Alot
Reply-to: <dale [at] cybercom.net>
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On 5:10:13 pm 01/16/06 Patrick Drone <padrone [at] umich.edu> wrote:
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> Greeting Everyone,
> I have recently been given a task that I'm looking for options and
> opinions from the great oracles. I'm have to come up with 2500 linear
> feet of hanging costume storage racks. I have been unable to locate
> any companies that make racks. So I am now planning on building the
> rack, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Are there designs that
> anyone has seen and liked? Or Disliked? In some of the warehouse
> space I am concedering hanging 1" schedule #40  pipes from the
> beams.  With the pick points at about 7 feet on center. Unfortunately
> about 1100 feet of the racks will be in an area that does not have a
> load bearing beams and has a ceiling height that is at about 10 feet.
> So the racks will need to come up from the floor  with cross pipe at
> about 6 feet 4 inches to hang the costumes on. What I'm unsure of is
> the using of pipe fitting for structure. Any help or ideas are
> welcome. Thanks
> Patrick A Drone
> Props Artisan
> padrone [at] umich.edu
>
  As others said, KEE brand clamps.  The nice thing about them 
is that you only need a couple of tools to change things 
around.   
  Something else you might want to check into is to see if 
there is a dry cleaning shop around that is going out of 
business.  Make them an offer for the moving hanger system.  

  --Dale


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From: StevevETTrn [at] aol.com
Message-ID: <246.54f6363.30fdd097 [at] aol.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:46:15 EST
Subject: Re: Rocks (was Scenery and Flame Retardant)

>'Seasoned' vets from the desert know that  the sun is a caustic
>source of dangerous radiation.  Anything left  out in the sun that isn't
>rocks and sand will be eaten up, bit by  bit.

Rocks?  but are not these also eaten up and become the source  of the sand?  
:)

SteveV
Orlando, FL  (once from Albuquerque,  N.M.)  


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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:44:29 -0500
From:  <dale [at] cybercom.net>
Subject: Re: Scenery and Flame Retardant
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On 3:00:09 pm 01/16/06 FrankWood95 [at] aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 16/01/06 17:37:48 GMT Standard Time,
> dale [at] cybercom.net writes:
>
> >     The objections frank had to sprinkler systems in a
> >   theater are all solved problems.
>
> I am glad to hear that. Sceptical, but glad.
>
> Tell me, and us, of the solutions.
>
>
> Frank Wood
>

  Not being a sprinkler design engineer, I won't try to 
give you the details.  But it all gets down to having 
the water at appropriate pressure under under flow, and 
various different kinds of sprinkler heads.   The state 
of the art for fire sprinkler systems was advanced 
greatly by the fad for big atrium hotels in the 1970s.   
  It is, of course, not just sprinklers putting water 
on the fire.  It also includes controlling ventilation 
under various fire conditions, fire stop walls and and 
a lot of hidden infrastructure.  
  I just see the end results.  My favorite one is the 
meridian plaza fire in philadelphia in 1991 or so.  
Building had been retrofitted with minimum required 
sprinkler system, ground floor, 10th floor, 20th, 30th, 
etc.  Fire started on 22nd floor.   Due to a couple 
of problems not worth the time to type out here, philly 
FD was unable to stop the fire, and evacuated a couple 
of block radius around the building, expecting it to 
fall over as the structural steel heated up.  
  It didn't fall over though, the fire just kept 
burning up the tower.  Fire stops on the floors worked, 
method of fire spread upwards was the heat of the fire 
melting the glass of the floor above, and then the hot 
gases flowed in until they ignited the contents of the 
next floor.   Continue until the 30th floor.  PFD was 
able, by some heroic actions of the firefighters and 
pulling some stuff that, by the book, should not have 
worked, to keep the building's sprinklers supplied 
with water on the 30th floor.   
   Fire came up, melted the glass.  Total of eleven 
sprinklers opened under the heat of the fire, using only 
thirty gallons of water per minute each.  Stopped the 
fire.  Damage to 30, smoke and water damage.  Damage 
to 22-29.  Nothing left but twisted metal and the 
bodies of a couple of firefighters who had gotten 
lost in the smoke.  


  --Dale


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Message-ID: <43CC78E3.80302 [at] ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:56:03 -0800
From: "Bryan H. Ackler" <backler [at] ix.netcom.com>
Organization: Va. Tech - Vassar - USITT - NTHP
Subject: Re: Strand 300 boot-up
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 > From: "Bill Conner" <bill-conner [at] att.net>
 > Subject: Strand 300 boot-up
 > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:34:22 -0600
 >
 > I hate to ask but did you try the Strand 800 number for tech service?  I
 > think it's  800 478-7263 (or 800 4 STRAND).
 >
 > Bill C
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Actually, the first choice for a Tech Support 800 number at Strand was

1 800 487 3275

1 800 ITS DARK

but management shot it down........

Bryan H. Ackler
Strand Telco Admin 1987-1996

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