On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:34:09 -0400, Pete Smith wrote: >with braided rope, use fine twine and sew the ends together I did this recently and it worked beautifully. It was the 5/16-inch stuff that DX Engineering and others sell, and a pulley of about 1.5-inch diameter. My XYL did the sewing, roughly 1 foot of sewing. 73, Jim K9YC