Editing Clothes elevator (section)

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This one is 1x3m and fits three or so loads of laundry.  Which is great, except that when full it can add up to much more weight than is comfortable to lift.

A block and tackle system was straightforward to make from two pairs of double pulleys, which I boringly purchased at the big box like it is the waning tail of the Industrial Age, and provides something between a 3:1 and 5:1 advantage.<ref>The jury is still out on this.  Eyeballing it suggests a 5:1 ratio, but there's still much I don't understand.  When I put a luggage scale on the ropes, it reads a 30kg pull before the multiple pulleys, and a 10kg pull for the operator, which is unignorably close to an exact 3:1 ratio.</ref>  This part of the junk needs to run smoothly and be unlikely to explode, so I have no regrets about my retreat.

Finally, my reward is that local children will enthusiastically run the winches while singing "Scrub, Scrub".<ref>Link withheld to protect the innocent.</ref>

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