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Seeking theatre technician to install Gas fire

Fri, 1 June 2012, 07:44 pm

Johnny Grim18 posts in thread

Well not so much to install, but to advise on where we can hire / borrow a fake gas fire? Playlovers had a marvellous fireplace for their production of Hobson's Choice, but our play, whilst set in a similar region, is in more modern times...I know the house would probably be central heated, but we're old fashioned enough to want a fire, even if it's fuelled by gas rather than wood...all /any advice welcomed.

It's easy enough to cobble

Sat, 2 June 2012, 11:13 am

Walter Plinge

It's easy enough to cobble together a faux fire using neon starters in series, in the positve + &/or negative - citcuits. However if it is VAC a Licenced electrian is required. Also if you can find a fan which was normaly fitted over an incndesant globe tha gives the flame efect to the light, if you reqire a flane flicker. If not this is easly made up from the cut out top of a used Bean or Pea Can. Held on to the globe Using a spring clip above the globe & free moving fan. Further if the fire is in a dimmer circuit it can be adjusted up or down as required.

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Seeking theatre technician to install Gas fire— Johnny Grim1 June 2012

Fake gas fire....— Taurean2 June 2012
- psuedo flame— Johnny Grim2 June 2012
  - FLAME ON!! — Taurean7 June 2012
Johnny— Logos2 June 2012
It's easy enough to cobble— Walter Plinge2 June 2012
- Gawd everytime I Do a post,— JoeMc2 June 2012
  - When I left ...— Logos2 June 2012
Your right Logos as any— JoeMc2 June 2012
- Joe - WP or not, we knew it— jeffhansen2 June 2012
- Shocking Idea!!!— Taurean7 June 2012
  - This explains why Melville— jeffhansen7 June 2012
  - To follow on from Taureen,— JoeMc7 June 2012
That's a good piont to add— JoeMc2 June 2012
If you look at a gas fire,— anothertech3 June 2012
Your right Logos! I— JoeMc4 June 2012
- That wasn't me Joe— Logos4 June 2012
I remember eons— JoeMc7 June 2012

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