Electrical Tape

AKA: LX tape, Leccy

Electrical Insulation Tape can usually be found in the pockets of most techies. Uses include taping cables to the rig, wrapping cables up, hiding bare bits of wire (No! Just No.), strapping gel frames together and attaching unsuspecting victims to unmovable objects.

LX is used on the cables to mark their length, we use a similar system to Blacklight except we don't include red or yellow, which are on all cables to indicate that they belong to Bedlam. Lengths are always rounded down and if there are two bands, then the lengths are added.

length	Bedlam Colour	Black Light Colour
1m	Brown	Brown
2m	White	White
3m	Purple	Purple
5m	Blue	Blue
10m	Green	Yellow
20m	-	Green
50m	-	Red

LX tape is also used to identify the owner of tools; the table below shows some of the combinations

Tape Colours	Owner	Notes
Red/Yellow	Bedlam
Yellow/Green	F.O.B.	Friends of Bedlam Toolkit (Striped/Earth Tape)
Blue/Red	Black Light
Yellow/Black	Dave Larking	Theatre Manager
Red-Black-Red	Duncan Grieve	Moved On
Purple/Black	Alistair Marshall	Please Sir can I have my <insert tool> back?
Blue	Colleen Patterson	Will possibly add black if such a simple colour becomes an issue
Green/Black	Richard Bell	I hereby claim the fore-mentioned colours for my stuff!
Black/Red/Black	Mark Gerrard	...see it, find it? Give it back...
Green/Black	Heather Hanshaw	I hereby re-claim the fore-mentioned colours from Richard cos i was here first! xx
Green/Black/Green	Claire Freake	My AJ had a band of bright green lx. Then it went missing at NSDF. Damn.
Blue/White	Alex Engel	These colours were hijacked with consent from David Illsley.
Blue/Red/White	Dave Moffat	It's mine, right!
Blue/Silver	Xander (like "Cher")	Maybe I should put my colours on my LX tape...
Blue/Green	Denise Wood	I'm reserving this in advance for the tools I will someday have!
Blue/Black/Red	Alex 'Mal' Mead	One day, i shall have enough stuff knocking around Bedlam for this to be worth it....
Yellow/Brown	Neale Dutton	They're not Terry's they are mine.

LX tape can be used to write on, notice the indented section of the sound desk designed for this - it isn't just a coincidence. DON'T put tape on the new lighting desk . If a lantern breaks and needs to go to the bar of broken things then please put some tape on it and tell us what is wrong with it. If the mode of failure is not known mark the item FUCT - Failed Under Constant Testing!!