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karl

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    Amateur theatre practitioner
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    Various amateur groups in West Yorkshire mostly in lighting & sound (design & op).
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    Karl Eaton

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    Huddersfield

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  1. It's nearly always easier to look at something that has failed and trace the cause than to predict the failure point before hand. To me the real issue isn't so much why this one incident happened but why such failures seem to keep happening. Search on the BR for 'collapse' and there's about one thread a month discussing the latest disaster. How many temporary staging structures are erected every year and what percentage fail? I suspect if the same percentage of commercial airline flights ended in disaster we'd all be dead by now.
  2. Thanks Wuddy for the recommendations, I see from your profile that you too work in the amateur arena so I'm assuming these guys are happy to deal with amateurs. It's a pain when companies have a minimum order threshold that's four times bigger than your budget for a show! I can understand why they do it but that doesn't help when you need just one or two items.
  3. Cheers for the help I'll give Stage Electrics and/or Schurter a try and see what comes of it. I wish I had a local branch, I prefer talking to people face to face rather than on the phone (especially things like this where you can show them exactly what you're after). Since White Light North disappeared I've really struggled.
  4. Okay, I didn't realise there were so many variants! These have six channels (obviously) with each channel having two sockets. The fuses are all mounted to one side of the sockets in a vertical line. There is a multi-position switch and a knob on the front to allow local control of a single channel. I'm afraid I can't remember the colour despite having seen them only a couple of hours ago. Thing is, as I mentioned above, I didn't really want to replace the whole fuse holder just the carrier that slots in. Do the carriers vary between panel mounted and PCB mounted holders or are they all the same? I hoped that getting replacements would be fairly straight forward and Gareth's first reply seemed to confirm that but it now looks a lot more complicated. Edited to fix grammar.
  5. Hi, I've been asked to help out with a show by a local amateur group who have their own venue. They have four Strand Act6 dimmer packs (non-DMX). Two channels are out of action due to broken / lost fuse holder inserts and as the show needs all the channels it can get I'm looking to source replacements. It is the bit that carries the fuse itself that I'm after. They are 34mm long and 11.5mm in diameter. At the open end (where the fuse slots in) there are two tiny lugs which lock the insert into place in the holder. Does anybody know where I might be able to locate either just the insert or complete fuse holders that I can swap the insert from? Is there a part number or anything like that which I should ask for? I know the simple answer would be to replace the whole fuse holder with a new one but as these dimmers don't belong to me and elderly equipment has a tendency to break when disturbed I'm reluctant to go down that path. Also the dimmers are hard wired in so although I have access to a spare dimmer pack (with a different fuse holder design) swapping out the packs isn't an easy option. Any help would be much appreciated.
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