d_korman

Check here too, looks cheaper than efoam. https://www.flightcasehardware.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=61_108 I bough mine from them when I built my X32 flight-case.

Approx dimensions: Height at rear: 5'8" Height of top step: 42" (designed to butt up to 48" rostrum) Depth: 8ft. Width at rear: 9ft. Width at front: 5ft. Also additional matching pillars and profile balustrade for top of rostra,

Here's one I made earlier (about 20 years ago). It might look familiar (I reverse engineered it). I built 8 of the pods. The whole set are functionally and pin compatible with the LeMaitre versions. I used the female contacts from these, set into a Delrin block.

Good used condition, believed to be fully working but has not been powered up for a few years. Collect from SW London. £250 ono

We've changed the scene - it's now a caulking gun. However, unless the laws of physics are wrong, an empty air nailer with no air supply cannot possibly fire.

Does anyone know anywhere to hire a safe prop nail gun for "A Bunch of Amateurs" pg 32? One actor puts the nail gun to another's head, then to his own head (not firing in either case) and then shoots it into the air when it goes off with a bang. Using a real/unmodified nail gun is a no-no, even without anything in the magazine, so I guess it would have to be a one made or modified for the purpose. I guess we could use a real air (ie not a Paslode gas) nailer with no airline connected and nothing in the magazine, and use either a blank firing pistol off-stage (which we can do) or a sound effect to provide the bang and then the actors will just have to act 😃. Would be better if the sound could come from the gun though. Thanks for any other suggestions.

I use the cheap and cheerful (£22) Berry UCA222 rather than the phone/mic socket. It uses the standard MS drivers so you can plug it into any laptop, also works with mac I believe.

I'll have a look - I've not really bothered since they released V2 as V1.5 does everything that I need....... For the current version there only seems to be a subscription option, cheapest deal is £238..42/year. Can't find any sign of earlier versions on their website.

One reason for staying with v1.5 is that it was a one-time licence purchase whereas after Adobe got their hands on it, it became an annual subscription and much much more expensive. I run version 1.5 under Windows 7 in a virtual machine, on a Linux host, works perfectly well. You could do the same using a Windows 10 or 11 host. I did try it on a Windows 10 virtual machine and it sort of works but has a couple of strange quirks.

We've always used class 1 FR hardboard for this, with matt gaffer on the joins. Have painted several patterned floors on this surface, and then just paint over with black when pattern no longer needed. Not sure the FR is strictly necessary for something that is in such intimate contact with a wooden floor beneath. I can imagine that trying to apply masking tape sheets without any crease etc would be a nightmare and certainly can't be re-used at a later date, whereas the hardboard can be left down, or lifted and stored until needed again.

I find my self wondering how a live round was anywhere near the set, let alone in the weapon. Surely the armourer would have checked the weapon was loaded with the correct ammunition immediately before handing it to the actor. I smell negligence (assuming it was not murder).

My response to that is "I'll do it if you can tell me how to remove an egg from a cake"

How about ball transfer bearings - they move freely in any direction: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284355889648?hash=item4234ee89f0:g:0OsAAOSwoiZgu6vh We used them to build a revolve many years ago.

What are you hoping to achieve? The colour of the cable obviously has no bearing on its suitability to be used for any given purpose. Is this just for housekeeping? "Please Sir, the LX boys have nicked one of my sound CAT5E cables" With my IT Networks Consultant's hat on - IMO I wouldn't bother. In 35 years in networks, mostly in the Finance Industry where the network is critical (I started before Ethernet was released - all point-to-point/star networks back then), I've seen it tried once or twice, and it doesn't take long for the system to break down. CAT5E is CAT5E - they are all electrically the same. People will use whatever cable they have to hand when they need one. By all means code for straight or crossover cables, though that's better done with the cable sheath (red for Xover only), and possibly use coloured Hellerman sleeves to identify CAT5E, CAT6 etc. Now, colour coding the sockets on a patch bay - that's another matter, and can be very helpful.

The first, definitely for me too, but generally the director will give the operator feedback if it's not what they want :)