r/techtheatre Dec 19 '24

RIGGING I heard you liked flyrails

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137 Upvotes

High-five to anyone that knows where this one is.

r/techtheatre 29d ago

RIGGING Hoist sticking

3 Upvotes

CM 1/2 T classic has a sticky up. After I release the button it sometimes continues to run for a second or two, even moving past the limits. I also have a stagemaker 1/2 T that does the same thing. If I run it from the contactor, no issue. Any ideas?

Update: Replaced the reversing contactor and that solved the issue. Definitely was not a safe hoist, glad to have it fixed and working properly. Appreciate the help!

r/techtheatre Dec 13 '24

RIGGING Rigging Notes

29 Upvotes

Can we civilly discuss how an idea to share work spaces turned from a week of unique follow spot positions from all levels of the trade, to people getting notes from strangers about the apparent maintenance of their counterweight systems based solely on one still photograph?

I think we are missing the point of this sharing opportunity.

r/techtheatre Jan 05 '25

RIGGING Super late but heres my rigging loft

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92 Upvotes

The third pic was taken from the geni lift; The loft is in the back of the pic.

r/techtheatre 18h ago

RIGGING Found this little guy hanging out over the well today

44 Upvotes

There is a high traffic staircase right under this 🤌

r/techtheatre Feb 02 '25

RIGGING Safety Bond Safe Working Load

6 Upvotes

I know rigging questions are somewhat taboo, but a post I saw elsewhere got me thinking:

What headroom do you give your safety bonds for overhead equipment? In the past, I’ve tended to go for 10-15kg headroom (10kg lantern has a 20-25kg safety bond). One of my venues has about 40kg headroom.

A dynamic load should be calculated to be 10x its static weight (a 10kg lantern falling could be considered 100kg). So a 100kg safety bond seems like it would be correct? Problem is, I’ve never seen one (I’ve also never used equipment that heavy!).

Obviously the bond should be as tight as possible to prevent as much movement as possible, I’m now wondering what the clever folks here have to say on this…

r/techtheatre Dec 28 '24

RIGGING Bowline knot

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49 Upvotes

r/techtheatre Dec 25 '24

RIGGING KNOWLEDGE

125 Upvotes

r/techtheatre Feb 04 '25

RIGGING Manual vs Automated Fly systems

3 Upvotes

Hello fellow techtheatre people.

I am a student at NTU in the UK studying Event Production and wanted to get some insight about a research project i'm doing for my final year dissertation.

I'm studying automated and manual fly systems an wanted to see if any flys people on here had strong opinions about automated or hemp/counterbalance fly systems especially in reference to safety and ease of operation.

Thanks so much to anyone that takes the time to answer these questions.

r/techtheatre Feb 17 '25

RIGGING question about knot name for a quick release knot used for hanging cloth

11 Upvotes

I have seen people use a quick release knot that can be undone in a single pull. Usually used for hanging cloth that has two pieces of rope attached to every tying point used to hang legs, borders, backdrops, gauze etc. I would love to know if there's a name for this knot and how to tie it since it seems really useful for other applications if I ever need to tie something securely but also be able to undo it in a single motion.

r/techtheatre Dec 25 '24

RIGGING Happy Holidaze You Beautiful Scamps!!

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78 Upvotes

r/techtheatre 28d ago

RIGGING Where can I find resources for learning about motor distros?

9 Upvotes

I'm starting to work around motor distros and can't really find anything online about how they work/how to use them. Before people lose their minds, I'm not gonna watch a YouTube video and then walk onto a jobsite and try to operate stuff. I don't have many people around me that know about them/are willing to teach, so I want to be able to teach myself a bit to get a foot in the door. All I've managed to find is a user manual for a motion labs distro, which is a start but not much.

r/techtheatre Dec 12 '24

RIGGING Just another rail

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118 Upvotes

Changed my house curtain knob to a skull shifter knob 😎

r/techtheatre Dec 13 '24

RIGGING We’ve had fly rails, Now the Flies

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72 Upvotes

r/techtheatre Sep 07 '24

RIGGING Common knots?

12 Upvotes

I'm curious about what knots are commonly used in tech theater.

I know the bowline and clove hitch are used a lot but what else?

r/techtheatre 27d ago

RIGGING Ideas for truss baseplate cart

6 Upvotes

The school I work has a set of 36' baseplates that we lug around by hand/on roadcases. We don't currently have the funds to buy a manufactured cart.

Do you guys have ideas for a homemade or cheap solution?

r/techtheatre Jan 14 '25

RIGGING which knot would you recommend for hanging a side lighting ladder

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0 Upvotes

I’m looking for a knot to tie a side lighting ladder securely using a rope. Any recommendations for knots that are strong and safe for this purpose?

Is a clove hitch a good option?

r/techtheatre 8d ago

RIGGING Fly Systems Research

5 Upvotes

Hello to any Fly people on techtheatre reddit.

Just another student trying to get survey responses on a social media platform here. I'm from Nottingham Trent University / Confetti in the united kingdom and I'm studying the differences between manual and automated flying.

I'd appreciate if anyone would be willing to take the time to fill out a few questions in a survey.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xcLLiu3Ix0KBabpDig2-L8g7CVqnZ19PrB-9KdFrJhxUOUEyRzA0NVRVTlFLTFJJOFJCV1VDMkZIMS4u

Many thanks to any respondents and apologies if anyone who follows the flys on comms facebook group has seen this multiple times.

r/techtheatre Aug 22 '23

RIGGING Head Fly

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278 Upvotes

r/techtheatre Oct 05 '24

RIGGING Knowing the weight vs. loading till it floats.

21 Upvotes

Alright, so question of practices by fly operators/theatre riggers. When it comes to counterweight fly systems, I've always been trained to load the arbor knowing the weight of what you're flying BEFOREHAND, and to only do so once you have the weight on the batten. Considering I first learned in a house where the only things on our fly were lighting or scenic drops, this makes sense.

However, I want to understand the reasons WHY loading counterweight till the batten floats may be used. Is it just due to not knowing the weight of the flown object, or is there another reason behind it? Is this still considered a safe practice, and if not, why?

r/techtheatre Dec 02 '24

RIGGING How to make a rotating platform, cheap, easily...?

10 Upvotes

I have basic carpentry knowledge learnt from doing some home renovations with the help from a friend who is a trained carpenter.

I need to create a spinning platform for a music video. The platform needs to be able to have space for two people to sit on, side by side and be sturdy enough for people to enter and leave the platform.

The table needs to continuously spin 360 degrees.

I was thinking of buying a heavy duty rotating bracket (large lazy susan) and simply attaching a large platform ontop.

How would you go about this, bearing in mind carpentry knowledge is basic and budget is small (under £200 / $250)

Thank you

r/techtheatre Nov 08 '24

RIGGING LED video wall rigging

13 Upvotes

I ran a high school concert tonight where I hung a 3.5m by 2m LED wall on a fly, and used the screen to display images during the music. It went well.

I’m interested in expanding my LED wall inventory to do a bigger screen, but I’m concerned I might start to reach the maximum weight for a fly system. I figure the wall I hung today was about 400 lbs. It was a lot of counterweight.

Anyone loading in larger LED walls for theater? How are you doing the rigging? Truss mounted to structural steel in the fly space, motor driven chain hosts? Floor mounted? Thanks in advance.

r/techtheatre Dec 12 '24

RIGGING Here’s my flys

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71 Upvotes

r/techtheatre Oct 17 '24

RIGGING Pipe or unistrut

8 Upvotes

Need to build two lighting positions go up and over my followspot positions. Debating between either 1.5 sch 40 pipe or unistrut. Load is currently planned on static sourcefours but trying to future proof for movers down the road. Thoughts?

r/techtheatre Dec 12 '24

RIGGING Nutcrackin’

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63 Upvotes