{"id":2782,"date":"2014-11-11T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=2782"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:17:01","slug":"stores-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/stores-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Stores Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janis Goldring<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Peter says he once took a bite out of Les’ (in Stores) cheese sandwich who went apoplectic with rage!<\/p>\n

Dave Box used to go to Stores and say \u201cGood morning Store Man, can I have four of your finest rolls of camera tape and a box of your best blue chalk" just to wind him up!<\/p>\n

Dick Blencowe<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Les in stores has just rang up to say he needs the Apple and Biscuit back as it is the emergency spare. Will an AXBT do?<\/p>\n

Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Whenever I was sent to the Stores for Camera Tape, I would get a baleful stare and be given one roll \u2013 however many I had been asked to get. However, one day I went to Stores to get Camera Tape (amongst other things).  It was the morning of the 1966 General Election (31 March 1966): Studio 4 had an ICL mainframe running (the previous election had used an Elliot 803) and the there was a six foot high, four foot wide grey box which was a caption generator (as I recall).  Anyway, I was in Stores (working for a completely different programme), asked for Camera Tape and got given a complete BOX of rolls of tape!  Good stuff, camera tape!<\/p>\n

Bill Jenkin, Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Was anyone actually ever sent to stores for a black level clamp?  Or a ‘peak white clipper’ !<\/p>\n

Alasdair Lawrance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A memo came round about removing the pedestal from the output – there used to be a 2 percent ‘lift’ of black level on all video.<\/p>\n

Again in Cardiff, we packed up a stage weight in a cardboard box with a label to send it to redundant stores, showed the memo to the store man and left……<\/p>\n

Nobody ever knew what happened.<\/p>\n

Geoff Hawkes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My worst experience on Sound came when I was sent to stores on the second floor of TC as it was then, for a swan-neck mic extension. I\u2019d failed to ask which type of mic it was for and the storeman sent me back with a goose-neck instead. <\/p>\n

At that time I didn\u2019t know the difference but suffered a severe telling-off from an exasperated SA1 (no names mentioned) for incompetence because I\u2019d got it wrong. Well, that\u2019s one way to learn and fast\u2026<\/p>\n

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