STAGECRAFT FINAL EXAM REVIEW

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100

This is the thickness of a 1-by-4.

What is 3/4"?

100

The general name for this type of stock steel and why it is often used over the Square variety.

What is Rectangular Tube and what is that it is more rigid when used on edge?

100

All these items pictured here are types of these.

What are Casters?

100

The name of these—one of Rob's favorite tools—and one of their uses.

What are End Nippers and what is trimming or removing staples and brad nails?

100

This style of Flat Construction.

What is Broadway?

100

The name for this type of screw head.

What is a Philips Head?

100

This document is created as a check to know all the different pieces and sizes of lumber needed to construct a given piece of scenery.

What is a Cut List?

200

This is the standard size of most sheet goods.

What is 4' by 8'?

200

We might call this the Wellsaw, but its generic name is this.

What is a Horizontal Band Saw?

200

This item that allows movement in any direction.

What is a Universal Caster?

200

This saw, with a body part in its name, is used mostly for cross-cutting stick lumber.

What is a Radial Arm Saw?

200

When a Flat is built with the lumber on edge, like the one pictured here, it is considered this style.

What is Hollywood or Studio?

200

These are the two names for the type of screw head we mostly use in the Scene Shop.

What is a Square Head or a Robinson?

200

This is what one must consider when assembling scenery to make sure the pieces arre cut to the appropriate sizes.

What is the size of the materials being used (like thickness or width)?

300

Ripping.

What is cutting with the grain?

300

When the Wellsaw was broken, we used this version (but the cordless one).

What is a Portable Bandsaw or Portaband?

300

Although it looks similar to its kin, this type of Caster only allows movement in one direction or axis.

What is a Rigid Caster?

300

This handy tool is often used for marking boards to be cut with the Chop Saw.

What is a Speed Square?

300

The term for the triangular shaped piece pictured here connecting the Rail and the Stile.

What is a Cornerblock?

300

This type of fastener.

What is a Carriage Bolt?

300

This is what we would employ to make multiple cuts of the same length.

What is a Stop Block?

400

This is measurement is the same for both 2-by-4 AND 1-by-4.

What is 3 and 1/2 inches?

400

This is the reason welding helmets require special dark shields.

What is that the UV light created by welding can cause eye damage?

400

This Wagon, like ALL Wagons, is made up of these two key components.

What is a Platform + Casters?

400

This power tool can be used to make non-linear cuts in something.

What is a Sabre Saw or a Jig Saw?

400

When you skin a flat, you might use this wood sheet good or this inexpensive cotton fabric.

What is Lauan or Muslin?

400

These.

What are Lag Screws?

400

This is the name of Rob's dog.

What is Gobo?

500

Cutting perpendicular to the grain.

What is cross-cutting?

500

This type of welding is good for welding outside.

What is Stick Welding or just Arc Welding?

500

The term for this type of Wagon, made clear by item 1.

What is a Pivoting Wagon?

500

This versatile tool uses specialized bits, like a flush-cut bit for example, to do all kinds of tasks.

What is a Router?

500

These are the three main parts of any stair unit.

What are the Riser (a), the Tread (b), and the Carriage or Stringer (c)?

500

The term for the UNTHREADED portion of this bolt.

What is the Shoulder?

500

This is the difference between an Upcut and a Downcut bit.

What is that the Upcut bit leaves a cleaner surface on the bottom of the CNC'd material where the Downcut bit leaves a cleaner surface on the top of the CNC'd material?

600

This has alternating grains in its layers.

What is plywood?

600

This the term for the Argon mix that surrounds a welding pool and why we would need it.

What is Shielding Gas used to protect the weld from impurities in the air?

600

The name for this piece of hardware that allows easy movement in any direction.

What is a Zero-Throw Caster?

600

This type of hammer spreads the force out to reduce rebound and the risk of damaging the surface of the material.

What is a Dead Blow Hammer?

600

Unlike the type of stair pictured, this stair unit requires additional support; it can't stand on its own.

What is a Dependent Stair?

600

A name for this type of screw.

What is a Self-Tapping or Tek Screw?

600

This is why we would use Tabs in a CNC Profile cut.

What is to keep through-cut pieces secure in place during the job?

700

Two (2) two-by-fours stacked on top of each other would have this combined thickness.

What is 3"?

700

This is the type of welding we do in our shop which uses a consumable electrode in the welding gun that is also plumbed to a tank of Argon.

What is MIG welding?

700

This the type of Caster we want to try to use in as many applications as possible—even on a revolve—and why.

What is a Rigid Caster and so that the scenery movement is predictable and we don't have to "break" the casters to move in a different direction?

700

You probably don't remember the name of this tool or its use.

What is a Bevel Gauge (or a Sliding T-Bevel) that is used for transferring angles?

700

This type of support for a platform is made up of two pieces: a piece of lumber directly supporting the frame from underneath and a piece for attaching to the platform frame itself.