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will come just above the porch railing, as shown in Fig. 104. Tie
The Lowering Cable to the screw-eye screwed into the under side of the car.
As long as the weight of the car and its load remains less than half of that of the counter-balance, the counter-balance will drop and by so doing lift the car. The cable. attached to the bottom must be pulled to lower the car.
Those of you boys who own a tree-hut, or intend to build one,[1] should erect an elevator similar to the one just described, for hoisting supplies to the hut.
- ↑ Plans for building Tree-Huts, and a Dumb-Waiter for supplies, are given in Chapter XXV of “The Handy Boy.”
