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timd

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    Studying Chemical Engineering at Cambridge. Involved in various sound and lighting for theatre and small live music events.
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    Tim Davies

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  1. 3U jack patchbay, four rows of 32 sockets each. Not sure of the connector standard. Sockets soldered to 8 multicores, all approx 6m length. Rescued from landfill when Heart Cambridge shut down, has been sat in my loft ever since. Seems too nice to go to waste, so free to a good home. Collection from Cambridge.
  2. So what should we do? Censor all discussions of stage collapses because it's a topic that makes some people uncomfortable? Perhaps we should ban all discussion of rigging or power in case someone gets an idea into their heads and produces a dangerous installation? No, that would be ridiculous. As Kerry has said above, these threads may come to the attention of production managers and put to the front of their minds the safety issues involved in running an event, which can only be a good thing. What we're trying to promote generally is a culture of safety across the industry (and many other industries), and the only way to achieve that is by talking about safety. The safety of an event isn't just down to the riggers. Everyone has a role to play, however big or small, so anything we can do to raise their awareness of safety the better. You may have rigged a perfectly appropriate stage, but then if the lighting and sound teams turn up with a different set of kit that weighs more, what do you do? Lets say the line array is changed last minute for one that weighs 20% more, but this information never makes it beyond the sound lot, who think it won't matter. Meanwhile, the lighting team bring a few extra movers, and all the movers weigh a bit more than expected because they're a magnetic ballasted lot cross-hired from another company, and no-one on site is even aware that it's happened. At the same time, the video wall manufacturer's data sheet contains an error in the wind loading factors to be applied. Who's now to blame that the structure's overloaded and potentially unsafe? None of the mistakes were made by riggers, they were made by people who wouldn't normally consider rigging safety, and that's the issue. You may know exactly how dangerous temporary structures can be, but does everyone else?
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