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 | | From: | Quite A Catch | | Subject: | Salvaging Shaker Cups | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 19:49:41 -0800 |
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 | I work for Cirque du Soleil's outreach program: Cirque du Monde, and
the juggling props are my responsibility. The kids we work with have
dropped our aluminum cups plenty of times over the last 4 years and now
they are bent so much that they stick together. I know that Eliot
Goldstein sells cups made from aircraft alloy (which I use in my act
and they still don't have a dent), but they are $40 apiece and I have a
limited budget to work with. So has anyone else been able to reshape
dented cups, and if so, was it worth the effort? I'm afraid that once
the metal has been bent, straightening it out will only weaken the
metal. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
--Ron
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| | From: | Jay Linn | | Subject: | Re: Salvaging Shaker Cups | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:18:46 +0000 |
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| Quite A Catch wrote:
> I work for Cirque du Soleil's outreach program: Cirque du Monde, and
> the juggling props are my responsibility. The kids we work with have
> dropped our aluminum cups plenty of times over the last 4 years and now
> they are bent so much that they stick together. I know that Eliot
> Goldstein sells cups made from aircraft alloy (which I use in my act
> and they still don't have a dent), but they are $40 apiece and I have a
> limited budget to work with. So has anyone else been able to reshape
> dented cups, and if so, was it worth the effort? I'm afraid that once
> the metal has been bent, straightening it out will only weaken the
> metal. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I think it depends on what specific sort of cup you are using, but it
may well be that they are not practically repairable.
I have a set of Beard shaker cups, which have been workshopped and
otherwise dropped quite a bit, and are now next to useless because they
have lost their shape and now sit awkwardly in each other, with the
consequence that releases are frequently somewhat sticky or otherwise
unpredictable.
Having spoken to someone or other at Beard, I'm told that you *can*
have them re-rolled, but that would be so expensive as to render it
pointless not to simply replace them with new ones.
The other option would be to assemble a small jig on which to beat
them back into shape with a suitable hammer, which would require quite a
bit of time, patience, and skill.
Good luck, and please let us know if you come up with a miracle
solution to the problem - the jugglers of the UK are collectively
desperate for me to resume my shaker cup exploits at conventions across
the nation.
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Jay Linn
Contents (greatest first): Facts, speculation, flim-flam,
misconceptions, flippancy, canards, lies, red herrings, tysop.
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| | From: | mini mansell | | Subject: | Re: Salvaging Shaker Cups | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:37:44 GMT |
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"Jay Linn" wrote in message
news:41f3881e$0$42537$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> Quite A Catch wrote:
>> I work for Cirque du Soleil's outreach program: Cirque du Monde, and
>> the juggling props are my responsibility. The kids we work with have
>> dropped our aluminum cups plenty of times over the last 4 years and now
>> they are bent so much that they stick together. I know that Eliot
>> Goldstein sells cups made from aircraft alloy (which I use in my act
>> and they still don't have a dent), but they are $40 apiece and I have a
>> limited budget to work with. So has anyone else been able to reshape
>> dented cups, and if so, was it worth the effort? I'm afraid that once
>> the metal has been bent, straightening it out will only weaken the
>> metal. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> I think it depends on what specific sort of cup you are using, but it may
> well be that they are not practically repairable.
>
> I have a set of Beard shaker cups, which have been workshopped and
> otherwise dropped quite a bit, and are now next to useless because they
> have lost their shape and now sit awkwardly in each other, with the
> consequence that releases are frequently somewhat sticky or otherwise
> unpredictable.
>
> Having spoken to someone or other at Beard, I'm told that you *can* have
> them re-rolled, but that would be so expensive as to render it pointless
> not to simply replace them with new ones.
>
> The other option would be to assemble a small jig on which to beat them
> back into shape with a suitable hammer, which would require quite a bit of
> time, patience, and skill.
>
> Good luck, and please let us know if you come up with a miracle solution
> to the problem - the jugglers of the UK are collectively desperate for me
> to resume my shaker cup exploits at conventions across the nation.
or, maybe not..
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