Originally Posted by Leisesturm

I'm not the one interested in rigging something up like that. For the main reason that no amount of rigging is going to compensate for the complete lack of prescience in the human animal. IOW when you realize you ought to raise the flag, the flag should have been raised 4 seconds prior... now what? Is that so hard to understand? Really, read my post again, its all in there. But since you are thinking about it, the way to accomplish the task is to put the flag on a pivot. Raise and lower the flag by direct force. Once you introduce mechanism, you need too much input at the user end to get much movement at the action end of the lever. Only direct application of arm force to the shaft of the flag will work. And... for the final time, the reason why that is a non-starter (won't work) is that it is inevitable that the flag will be up when you want it to be down, or down when you need it to be up. Murphy's Law. I'm smart, but Murphy was even smarter. KISS. Just saying.

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