[bphood94]

Ok so my school is doing "Urinetown: The Musical" and I decided to construct a revolve that used flats to sperate the circle into thirds so I could rotate it and it would be able to hold three different scenes. My director made it sound like this is common on revolves but I have yet to see anything like it on the internet. I have basically already constructed the revolve I just need to know how attatch the flat walls to it so that they will be supported and not fall over.

[david.elsbury]

Uh, screw them to the floor of the revolve using L brackets?

David

[Brian]

So each line of flats makes an angle of 120 degrees to the others? Sound self-supporting to me.

[paulears]

The world runs on pin hinges.

I hope yours works better than the one we built about ten years ago, Once it had set on it, we couldn't move the damn thing!

[GridGirl]

I did exactly this for a production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". We just used L-brackets, as David said, to attach the walls to the floor. With clever blocking, the use of the walls can work really well - people walking from one room to the next as the revolve turns. Is your revolve remotely operated, and by someone on a winch, or have you got a motor driving it? I actually think a crew member on a winch is better - far more easily adaptable if something goes wrong, although they can't move as much weight....

[ramdram]

But you could apply more effort/crew to the hand/manual winch or sort out the gearing? That Archimedes knew about force multipliers quite some time ago so it's not a new problem.

I would have thought the inertia and momentum issue more of a worry as in stopping the revolve at exactly the right point.

This post has been edited by ramdram: 19 February 2012 - 11:49 PM

[iains]

ramdram, on 19 February 2012 - 11:48 PM, said:

But you could apply more effort/crew to the hand/manual winch or sort out the gearing? That Archimedes knew about force multipliers quite some time ago so it's not a new problem.

I would have thought the inertia and momentum issue more of a worry as in stopping the revolve at exactly the right point.

Isn't that why we have rehearsals

iains

[ramdram]

It's why I mentioned it Iains...

[Nicktaylor]

I loved the first comment that the revolve has already been built! My experience many moons ago used the Lancelyn hire one. It did look great as a set, but it was a huge structure as you would expect for even our smallish stage. I assume the revolve has been tried with no load? It would be a bit sad as others have said to build the set then not be able to, well, revolve the thing!

This post has been edited by Nicktaylor: 20 February 2012 - 12:54 PM