Technical Design Solutions for Theatre Volume 3

Scenery Tools

Two Useful Shop Tools	F. Chase Rozelle III
An Affordable Steel Roller	Chris Brown
Handy Tip Carts	Steven Neuenschwander
A Shop-Built Ladder Standoff	Rich Desilets
A Shop-Built Rotisserie for Welding Large Units	Brian Dambacher
A Winch-Driven Bench-Mount Panel Saw	Jeff Smejdir
A Shop-Built Sliding-Head Hold-Down	Eric Casanova

Two Useful Shop Tools

A Lever-Arm Retractable Caster

The uses for a retractable caster in both the scene shop and onstage are many. There are many designs for this bit of hardware, but few are as easy to manufacture as that illustrated in Figure 1. The caster’s vertical movement is executed with the now familiar lever-arm toggle clamp. Some of these clamps, such as McMaster-Carr’s 5093A58, feature ...