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off as possible. Then I rebuckled Erica's crotch strap and
*** The Weekend, technical details ***
Here's perhaps the most complicated device: a home-made adjustible
spreader. I got this idea from one of those adjustible broom handles,
you know, those K-mart $5 ones consisting of two thin metal tubes, one
of which fits into the other, and a twisty thing that lets you tighten
the grip of the outer shaft when the inner shaft has telescoped to the
desired length. By itself it's already a great spreader bar, extending
from about 2 1/2 feet to 4 1/2 feet, just add holes or rings at the ends
for straps or locks or rope, and viola! Though it's not that sturdy
(i.e. I wouldn't suspend anyone with it), human adductor muscles
normally are not strong enough to give the bar much stress, so for most
scenes it's more than satisfactory (much to the bottom's frustration/
I made a slight improvement, though. I found a regular wooden
broomstick that fit inside one of the hollow metal shafts. The twisty
thing just happened to work on the wooden broomstick as well. And you
know how umbrellas have this spring-loaded one-way catch? I'm one of
those people who don't tend to lose umbrellas, they usually break on me
first, so I had a couple of umbrella handles lying around (one more
point for us p
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