Laser "Oh Shit Kit"- What is in yours?

[dsli_jon]

It just needs a place for a starting pistol and hand-gun certification to be Air-Line safe...

Indeed.. Never-did recoup any of that stuff, Sons of.. wolves.. Got a nice spot, right in the top, tho.. Gotta try that...

I have an "Oh shit kit" I use when travelling to India and China.

Heh, tip from a fellow Road Warrior / nasty bacteria-set victim: Eat a *ton of hi-quality / high in lactobactillus Yogurt, like, a pint every-day, for a week before your travels. (..and if you don't 'like yogurt', well... then ask yourself - 'which is worse', a creamy-dish with some peaches, or the devil camping out in your * for a week with his napalm-playset? ) On-arrival, avoid ice, only sealed-bottle bev's / certified-pure bottled-water, etc, etc.. Then... pray...

..The rationale behind the 'Yogurt regimen', is that the build-up of 'good bacteria' / flora in your gut, leaves little place for the nasty, evil stuff to 'take foothold'... seems to have always worked well, for me...

If you're not the 'praying type', then a) do the 'Yogurt pre-prep', and b) get yourself 2x 6-packs of 'Cipro' (ciprofloxacin) - stuff kills *anthrax*, and will usually kill anything that beats-out the lactobacs from doing their job.. Also, the 'pre-coat' of lactobacs from the Yog, helps your body from reacting with the 'drill seargant runs' (..OKAY YOU *HOLES, EVERYBODY UP AND OUT ON THE DOUBLE!!! because the Cipro is like a small nuke, bacteria-speaking... Can also be used to 'shorten' the duration of the devil-shts, should the Yog-regimen fail you / you don't wanna take it 'preventatively'...

Then... Eat 4-5 bananas when you return.. Sad-intestines love potassium. ..But not too-many.. Point being: 'Cipro' is also a 'OSK-must have', for us international-warriors..

j

[dnar]

I do take Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (pro-biotics) in capsule form, but only while traveling. I should take them a week before as you say...

Besides avoiding ice, also avoid cut fruit and veg. Only eat fruit if you peel it yourself. Lettuce it to be avoided at all costs, as it's usually not washed in bottled drinking water... Brush your teeth using bottle water also. In restaurants insist on them unsealing the bottled water in front of you (many like to fill these bottles from the tap!!!).

Despite all precautions, the watery-red-eyed-screaming-fesses-turd-burglar general lurks in my sump after most trips or worst annihilates hotel rooms with it's spray-of-death... Not a good way to loose 10kg!

Thanks for tip re bananas.

[dsli_jon]

...Despite all precautions, the watery-red-eyed-screaming-fesses-turd-burglar general...

Ya, indeed, even Cipro can't help you if it's a devil-virus, or a toxin (shellfish, undercooked-beans, etc..) Best line of defense against 'foreign bacteria-sets' (..which don't even have to be 'bad', per se - it's sometimes your body just going 'WOAH, nelly..' when it encounters the 'foreigners'...) is the leather-sofa in your living-room in front of the tele... ...but wheres' the fun in that?

cheers and TP.
j

[Displaser]

Used to do a shot of Pepto-Bismol every morning when working in Mexico some years ago. I worked for me - I never got stung again... (but I also didn't eat any fresh fruit or veg, ice, street vendor food or drinks, etc.)

[buffo]

Buffo had super advice about these alarm sensors- call the alarm company and give them yr cell fone # and let them know you will be running=alarm tests all weekend and to call first if they have any Q about an alarm- might be good to also call the Local Fire Dept. with the same. Trying to get them to understand is NOT easy if you tell them about hazers and PJs.

This is true. I've had more problems with fire alarms than anything else. To the point that these days, if I can't get someone at the venue to call the fire alarm monitoring company, I will open the fire alarm panel and disconnect the phone line! Can't phone in the alarm if the line is disconnected...

But yeah, one way or another, you need to either defeat the detectors (shower cap, wet towel, masking tape, etc), or disable the detectors from the alarm panel, or call the alarm company and tell them NOT to call the fire dept when the alarm sounds, or worst case, yank the phone line...

Also remember that any time the fire alarm triggers, it usually trips the air handlers off. So if it's getting warm and the alarm just went off, you probably need to reset the HVAC system!

- Ground-lift (3 >2 prong)

Hell to the yeah! Having a few of these little buggers in your toolbox will save your ass if you ever do a gig in a venue with lousy power. (Which is just about every nightclub, ever...)

Also, I can't believe no one mentioned ear plugs yet! Gotta have those in your kit. And some Asprin or Tylenol for the headache that will surely follow...

Plus, I usually carry my BD-10A oudin coil with me. It's handy for starting old, tired ion lasers that need a little "boost" to light...

Finally, bring lots of spare cables. ILDA, Audio, Power, Video, Network, you name it! Bring them all. Oh, and a nice fan to keep you cool while you fix whatever it is that just broke...

Basically, I bring as much with me as I can reasonably fit in my vehicle. Never know when you might need something odd, and it's always better to have it handy.

Adam

[mixedgas]

• ChannelLock Model 420 Slip Joint Pliar
• ChannelLock 3017 Large Pliars
• ChannelLock 526 Gas Pliars
• ChannelLock 337 Large Side Cutter
• 4 ½” Round Jaw Vice Grip (copied Jimmy)
• 4 1/2” Duck Bill Smooth Jaw Electronics Pliars
• Xcelite #14 Small Electronics Pliar
• Xcelite 170M Angled Side Cutter
• 4 1/2” Bent Nose Hemostat
• Stanley 4 in 1 Screwdriver (Numbers 1 and 2 Philips, 3/16ths and ¼th” Straight Blades)
• Stanley X-ACTO Knife Clone
• 10 mm Nut Driver for Flashlamp Leads
• Husky 8 in 1 Mini Torx Screwdriver
• Husky 8 in 1 Mini Philips/Straight Screwdriver.
• Ceramic Tweaker with Theta = .4 mm and plastic body.
• 1” diameter extendable mirror
• 14” extendable magnet
• Sears Evolve 22 piece Metric/English ¼” drive socket set 4mm to 13 mm and 5/32nd to ½” (Jimmy Liked it)
• Thorlabs Ceramic Infrared Converter Disk
• Thorlabs DET 10A
• Thorlabs LD1 Beam Dump (2)
• Triplette BugLight Magnetic LED Light (fits ½” posts nicely)
• 532 nm filter 10 nm Bandpass
• Cable Ties 4 inch (100)
• Cable Ties 6” (100)
• Heat Shrink 1/8th inch
• Heat Shrink 5/8ths Inch
• Allen Wrench Set Metric BondHus
• Allen Wrench Set English Bondhus
• Additional Allens 0.9 mm 1.3 mm .035” .050”
• Bags Plastic Beam Analysis (100)
• Polarizer Dielectric 1064 nm
• Tweezers
• Base Thorlabs ½” Diameter Post

• Orange 2 Photon Up-conversion Cards
• Lens tissue Thorlabs
• Lens Cleaner fluid, Altos Photonics Brand 2 oz,
• Right Angle Prism
• Ultraviolet Biz Cards
• Alignment Gauge (REDACTED) 50 mm (two)
• Swabs, Cotton Sterile
• Finger Cots or Nitrile Gloves
• Tool, Adjustment for Optics (REDACTED )
• Beam Profiling Film
• Cables Coax BNC (2)
• Mag-Light
• Thorlabs RA90 Right Angle Bracket (2)
• Safety Glasses Laser (two)
• Jumper Clips
• Soldering Iron
• Solder 60/40 RMA Mildly Active Flux
• Cleaning Pad Soldering Iron
• Tape Electrical Black
• Teflon Tape White, ½”
• O-rings Type A Garden Hose flat
• O-rings Type B Garden Hose toroidial
• Piece of Polaroid polarizer.
• Adjustable Wrench Miniature
• Bulb, Air Cleaning with Squirrel Tail Brush
• Adapter Female to Female BNC (two)
• Load 50 Ohms (two)
• TEE BNC (two)
• Tweezers, carbon plastic antistatic
• 3/16ths Allen Driver Xcelite
• Cable 5o Ohm BNC (two)
• PLASTIC TOOL BOX SEARS (FOUR)
1064 nm thin film polarizer
Macken viewing plate
SWABS wood stick no glue cotton individually wrapped
Lens tissues
Coherent fieldmaster II with multiple heads.


Above is company tool kit list, I was allowed to select my own tools.

(REDACTED) are internal specialty company tools, one of which is a beam height widget that has a hole at exactly 50 mm. One side is white and the other has a IR conversion coating on it.

Steve

[Phredy1]

The most important thing in my kit is some 5 hour energy's. Falling asleep at the keyboard is not good....

[dnar]

The most important thing in my kit is some 5 hour energy's. Falling asleep at the keyboard is not good....

Are your laser shows that boring? :runs:

Seriously, I get a real buzz from operating live shows. No issue staying awake. In fact, after returning home early in the morning I often can't sleep, still buzzing from the excitement.

[RGbee]

This is usually the stuff i bring to the LEM:
Laptops/PSUs/ Mice/ mouse mat
Denon mixer/white cable/power cable
Flightcase with (FB3/usb cable/Memory card)
Projector/Mains cable with breaker/keys
Ilda cables 1.5m (for testing purposes) and 50m
Camera/charger/tripod/Card reader
small blowtorch (solderPro 70 with numerous bits)
Solder
Screwdrivers (Slot, Phillips, Torx, Jewellers
Wire stippers
Allen keys
Socket sets
Adjustable spanners
Lighting Stand, crossbar and lighting safety cable
Fog machine/fog juice/remote
Black 4 way black power socket x2
16Gb memory card with backups of QS, LivePro and Traktor
Headphones/adapters
External harddrive and usb cable
Blacktape/masking tape
Phone charger
First contact cleaner
Telescopic sack Trolley (always useful to carry stuff and packs away to nothing)
hex bolts, spare electrical cable
Big fan
50m Mains cable reel
Shampoo
COFFEE
Tea
Milk
redbull
Dremel
Bog Roll

[Yag]

Back up projector.
Back up control system.
Back up cables.

When things go wrong on a show, there is rarely enough time to do any repairs!