Dave, I can see that the paperclip would work well on larger line sizes, but this is small stuff going thru tiny blocks(Harken airblocks or micro blks I think). I think the sewing, carefully done, could work fine. But now that Bill has me wondering about the amount of purchase I've got, I'm into digging into the mast. But it's still a bit of a mystery how I get it all back together once I pull that bolt out. Particularly if there's a sleeve as well as a block that needs to be held in position while reinserting the bolt. And the bolt is 4' up from the mast base. Can anyone shed light on this process?
So if the blk at the tack of the main serves to produce a 2 to 1 purchase on the outside of the mast, I then need 8 to 1 inside? Would that consist of a quad in the upper position at the bolt, and a triple below, connected to the line that then exits the mast near the base and becomes the external part of the dnhl. Who might make a quad that small? I don't see one in the Harken catalog in either 16mm or micro. Another arrangement to acheive the 8 to 1? Increase the purchase on the outside of the mast? Bill? Joe? Anyone?

Dave