Built Resources

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RCS workshops have manufactured a lot over the years, and some of those things have been kept due to their usefulness. There are modular decking systems, braces, treads, revolves, flats and all manner of other goodies that can be used to make a production more sustainable or make bigger impact shows for much less money.

The resources mentioned below are held in two containers. One if on-site, just outside the workshop doors. The other is off-site and held at Gilmours yard in Kilsyth. Generally speaking the heavier items, such as the modular items of deck, large treads, and revolves are held in the off-site container, whilst the on-site container holds things likely to be used more readily, like flats and materials.

As well as the images and dimensions below, there are Vectorworks files available for most items. These are housed on the RCS Vectorworks Team, Teams page. If you require another CAD format, please get in touch with your PM, Steve MacLuskie or Malcolm Stephen, who will make one for you.

There are many other modular resources of Flats, Treads, Scaffolding Pipe, Steel Deck and Truss that are not mentioned here but can be viewed by clicking their link, or under the Stage Equipment heading.

On-Site Container

Flats

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Merrily Treads

Two sets of metal treads made for the musical Merrily We Roll Along 2022. One large and one smaller.

Large Tread -

Small Tread -

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Custom Steel Deck

The deck was edited for a cantilever balcony in our production of Dead Man Walking. It's smaller than a standard 8x4 deck, but has an 18mm sheet of birch ply 8x4 on it. It also has a 45 degree angle cut away from one of its corners. It weighs 75.5kg

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Pass-through braces

Pass-through braces, like the name implies, are braces that people can pass through. The braces in question were built for Street Scene to hold up the main building's walls, whilst also allowing for people to move around freely in the building itself.

The braces are 3200mm tall and 1170mm deep. The 'doorway' that they create is 2200mm tall and 1070mm wide and has a sill-iron on the bottom. The braces have bolt plates on them to attach to the upright part of an on edge flat.

Pass through braces x ???

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Forestage Curve

See all information about this by clicking on the link.

Off-Site Container

Chess Deck

Recommended that these are dressed and painted before use, as there is some surface rust

The Chess Deck was created for Chess the Musical in 2017. It consists of 8 large decks at the standard 2440 x 1220mm and 4 smaller decks that are sized to work with the Chess Towers. These are 1220 x 1120mm.

Currently, 5 of the large decks and all of the small decks are topped in 2 layers of 18mm spruce plywood.

There are also 28x deck legs that create a platform at 2600mm high. These must be combined with the Chess Towers listed below (in consultation with the relevant production departments) for stability. These are made from 60 x 60mm box steel, with a 48.3mm scaffold top for socketing into the deck. They also (mostly) have a large square footplate that can screw to the floor.

Stock List

5x - 2440 x 1220mm - Topped with 2x spruce plywood - 100kg per deck

3x - 2440 x 1220mm - Un-topped - 50kg per deck

4x - 1220 x 1120mm - Topped with 2x spruce plywood - 46kg per deck

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Chess Towers

Recommended that these are dressed and painted before use, as there is some surface rust

Again created for Chess the Musical in 2017, these towers, when combined with the Chess Decks, can create a variety of platforms at 2600mm high. These have been used to make platforms in many productions since they were built, such as Die Fledermaus, Dead Man Walking, Perkin Warbeck and, when combined with the Chess Treads below, as get-offs in productions like Middletown and City of Angels.

The towers are made from 4 frames that are bolted together. These frames come in 2 different heights and 2 different widths. The shorter of the two frames is just the supporting structure, whilst the taller frames support, but also add a handrail to the tower.

There are enough frames for 6 towers, though there are only 4 tower decks. This was due to more towers being required for Giulio Cesare.

Stock

Support Frames

6x - 1220mm - 26kg each

6x - 1120mm - 25kg each

Support Frames with Handrail

6x - 1220mm - 36kg each

6x - 1120mm - 35kg each

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Chess Treads

Recommended that these are dressed and painted before use, as there is some surface rust

Metal treads were built for Chess the Musical. These come in two heights, but both are 1220mm wide.

There are 4 large Chess Treads. These have a finished height of 2600mm. There are 7 handrails for these, so if all 4 treads were to be required for a show, it is likely that another handrail would need to be constructed.

There are also 2 smaller treads with a rise of 1450mm. These have no handrail.

Stock

4x 1220 Tread x 2600mm Rise - 100kg each

2x 1220 Tread x 1450mm Rise - 59kg each

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Socket Deck

Recommended that these are dressed and painted before use, as there is some surface rust

This deck was built for the musical Urinetown. It is built from 100 x 50mm box steel, so is very robust. It has leg sockets inset into the frame underneath that protrude 105mm below the edge of the deck, and handrail sockets, that sit 182mm above the top of the deck, on each corner. Having the handrail sockets all around means that the deck is best suited to making platforms that are either 1220mm or 2440mm wide, with handrail.

There are two sizes of deck as listed in the stock list below.

There is also a pair of gates that fit along the 2440mm side of a deck. It consists of 2 welded gates that are 635mm wide each. There are currently offset to one end, but could be remade with different scaffold lengths to sit in the middle. It would also be possible to have one of these gates in a 1220mm deck side, but you would need to consider how this latches.

Stock

8x - 1220 x 2440mm - 92kg per deck

2x - 1220 x 1780mm - 77.5kg per deck

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Cross-Bracing for Deck Legs

Again manufactured for Urinetown, these braces have Kee Clamps on each end and slot onto 48.3mm Scaffolding Pipe that we use as Steel Deck legs. They fit on the short (1220mm) side of a standard steel deck.

Use of these alone may not be enough to stabilise a platform, and as such they should only be used in consultation with your PM, Workshop or Technical Stage departments.

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Revolves

Big Revolve

Comes in 3 sections that are 43kg each (unclad and with no wheels)

Small Revolve

Is in 2 sections that are 60kg each (unclad and with no wheels)

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Big Ring

This is a large circular flat truss like structure, that can be used in a variety of ways. It has an outer diameter of 6000mm and an inner diameter 5400mm. It comes in 3 sections, each weighing 42kg. It has lifting points attached.

The ring could be covered to make a circular piece. It could have practical lighting or LED attached. It could be clad to make a doughnut. Lots of options.