TechPanda Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Hi, my name Chris, I'm currently studying BA Hons in Technical Theatre at Hull College and me and my other course colleges are looking into buying our own equipment and setting up a small business in our local area of Hull, mainly its to build us up a contacts base which we would really like, were not really interested in money just enough to cover our costs to be honest. we was wondering if anyone knew were we could find cheap equipment such has dimmers, lights. sound equipment etc, we had a look round but obviously being students lack of money and we was wondering if anyone knew were we could find this equipment on the cheap Thanks for reading Christopher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wycome5 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Welcome to the forum. Ebay? www.usedlighting.com? What sort of budget are you looking at? Try your local free ad's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 There is a list of suppliers of secondhand kit in the Lighting FAQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peternewman Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Both the Lighting and Sound FAQs include a good list of places to buy equipment second hand. Stagelink will include a large list of manufacturers and suppliers of new kit, a number of whom will have cheap lines available. HTH PN It seems Brian types faster, but he missed the Sound FAQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechPanda Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 realistically say probably £200 but depending things go hopefully move it up to £500 or more being students were basically relying on scraps of equipment that's going dead cheap our main is just to offer our services in operating and stagehand, but we like to offer more in the future and it may give us a larger appeal to employers really at the moment my friends are thinking the idea through, we still have other things to take in to hand for example transport of equipment, two of us have cars but we was looking to share the work among the eight of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wycome5 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 It might be worth all chipping in an extra £20 or something if you have not already considered that, with £360 (£200 + £20 each), you may be able to get a good package deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotted Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 when I was at Hull uni, both TEGA and HPSS were going, have you not thought of applying to crew with them before you start up your own company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny boy Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 www.usedlighting.co.uk or just look on hire company's sites or phonethem up and ask about their ex-hire stock :wacko: - there's a lilnk to UsedLighting in the Ligthing forum FAQ, a link to which is given in posts 3 and 4 in this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_stemson Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 www.centraltheatresupplies.co.uk EX hire list (March 2006!), good offers on ex equipment and with good support from the sales team! Well worth a check 10 out of 10, is good! Cheap for your Par 16's! and then Ebay for your transformers! AJS....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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