[BC] Re: shakin'

[Tom]

IIRC, that's now an OSHA requirement.  NTM the grid itself has to be 
double-secured unless it's structural.  Was big issue in the '80s when 
WTHR built new studio - the contractor couldn't understand why we wanted 
a 15-foot high drop ceiling in a warehouse.  We had all sorts of fun 
with that - along with the noisy A/C vents.  The grid wound up 
double-chained to the rafters, IIRC; the A/C needed to be a bit more 
creative (wound up with dampers about 10-15' from the outlet, and no 
diffuser - at least for a while.  That's been quite a while, so they may 
have something different in there by now.)

Alan Kline wrote:
> The key is never trusting a c-clamp by itself. When I was handling the 
> lighting at my old station in San Francisco, I insisted that every 
> fixture hung from the grid have *at least* one wire-cable safety cable 
> attached--two if it was a heavier unit. And safeties attaching the 
> barn doors or other accessories to the main body of the fixture.
>
> I had no trouble getting whatever I needed approved for a purchase 
> order. If life in general was only that simple...
>
> ak
>
> Rich Wood wrote:
>> I can't say I'd want to be in a TV studio with hundreds of pounds of 
>> metal and glass secured with C-clamps dangling over my head.
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