One Way Rope Valve

This is on thingiverse as Rope Valve.

For a silly project I'm working on I needed a way to pull on more ropes than I have hands, so I wanted the ropes to stay where I pull them after I let go. A one way rope valve is what I was looking for.

I learned the proper names for these sorts of things from reddit and a cam cleat seemed to be just what I needed, but naturally it would be cheaper to 3d print something than buy something (and I don't need them to hold any real weight or act as safety equipment).

I found a Cam Cleat design already on thingiverse and modified it a bit with openscad to produce this:

It is easy to pull the rope down (in the above picture), but you can't pull it up.

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