Randy Steffen |
Weld-on Holes |
During a production of Life Is a Dream at the Yale School of Drama, the technical staff was faced with recycling 8×8 hard-covered, steel-framed flats from a previous show. Because changing the shape of some of the flats made many of the original bolt connections useless, the staff decided to “weld on new holes.”
The technique was suggested by a student who had worked in a theatre where the standard method of connecting steel-framed flats was to weld small pieces of box tube to the back of the flats and connect them with 
hex head bolts as illustrated in Figure 1.
FIGURE 1: WELD-ON HOLES
After a couple of test samples ...
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