George66 has solved the problem by modifying Emma's head. I am too chicken to try this on Claire, so I've had a go at designing a Lifting Bracket to achieve the same thing.
It is simply a vertical rod, rigidly fixd to the neck bolt, with a 4 inch bar at the top, to put the lifting rope over the centre of her head. I've taken a few pictures of its construction, which can be seen by clicking on this thumbnail:-
The rod material is silver steel (about 50Ton/sq.in). It needs to be high strength because there's a high bending moment from the overhang of the doll's weight. It may not be clear from the pictures, but I've had to put a steel tube around the vertical 3/8in rod. I had to do this, because the rod wasn't strong or stiff enough. A better design would be to do away witht the tube and use a 7/16in diameter rod. The rod has a 5/8in UNF thread each end, of 1in length to attach the top and bottom components. All the remaining components are Mild Steel. I obtained the materials from a model engineering supplier on the internet.
I made the bottom nuts myself, as I'm a tightwad
but I could have purchased ones instead. The main thing is to really tighten this connection onto the neck bolt.A 4in offset seems to work. I would not feel comfortable with any more, as this may put too much bending into the neck bolt, which, although high strength, is only a 3/8in UNC thread.
Hope this is of interest. the end result can be seen in Clair's album:-
