Bespoke technical services…
Big news here at the warehouse is that Factotum Industries has been appointed as the official installers for One 20 Productions. While Damian and his team will continue to focus on equipment hire and promotions we here at Factotum Industries will be performing the specialist permanent install work for bars, clubs and other commercial clients. Here’s to symbiosis!
It finally looks like summer and some fine weather are on their way at last!
The last 8 weeks have been busy both out in the field and behind the scenes with business development. Installs, repairs and the arrival of some great new test gear / tools to speed things along. Be sure to check out the News section for “official” announcements and Projects for what we’ve been working on. Enjoy!
A client needed a complete “smart wire” solution for an apartment being renovated. System was designed to customer requirements with additional future-proofing / capacity and supplied to the builders who performed the basic cable chasing.
With space at a premium a small structured panel was used to terminate / distribute satellite, free to air, data, DSL and telephones.
A few connections / sockets installed by contractors needed repair (discovered during the testing phase) but otherwise a neat solution with plenty of expandability.
The team at One 20 Productions needed a hand setting up a charity / fashion show in the CBD.
We designed, supplied and installed a video distribution system to run their plasma displays. Luckily we had spare scan converters on hand to run laptop shows and more at the last minute. It was an excellent show with the “men in black” backstage making sure it all ran well for the organizers.
A quick fly-in fly-out job in Newman saw me install a number of plasma TVs, integrate them with the distribution system, add a series of powered speakers along with a host of other upgrades and incidental repairs. As soon as I dig up the photos they’ll be up here.
A pleasant change from the dreary rain here in Perth!
It was a typical day – planned to finish work early and head home to install a new kitchen sink.
And then a client’s ancient PIII (yes, that’s right a Pentium 3) Primary Domain & File Server died… So some quick data recovery, jury rigged DNS, temporary file sharing and on-line corporate banking before getting on a plane to another job…
And then built a spanking new server when I returned to replace the existing boat anchor 🙂
This week saw us (amongst other things) fabricate a set of mounts for setting intel lights on truss towers. A few clever router / drill press / layout jigs meant we could make a dozen high grade units in a fraction of the usual time.
Foul weather had us set up a portable spraybooth in the loading bay and belt out a matt black finish for that pro look. If its worth doing – its worth doing properly!
Has is really been a month already?
The variety of projects in our first month has been astounding. From programming DMX lighting, rebuilding arcade consoles to installing a boxing ring. These projects will be uploaded in the next few days.
Earlier in the month we helped a co-resident at our HQ set up their shop.
Stands / racks were needed for cables, speaker stands and more.
I’d built a version of the “$30 Lumber Rack” (original here) earlier in the week to tame my pile of pipe, duct and timber.
A couple of clever angled jigs were set up on the drill press with forstner bits and before long we had a sturdy adjustable system.
Following a large fire last year in the warehouse next door a contractor laid temporary cabling to restore phone services for a client.
Sadly there was a huge amount of orphaned cabling already attached to the IDF.
With a change in tennants and relocation of various services at the site there were two options : do it quickly [ugly] or do it right.
With only a minimum of extra time the IDF was fully rebuilt and documented (including installation of Mode 3 wiring for an alarm panel) with orphaned cabling removed and propper jumpering done making future service a breeze (not to mention increasinging reliability!) Plans are already underway to expand services on site.