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Can anyone really explain how pulleys work? I mean not in theoretical terms

Seems like witchcraft to me.
lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
Monosodium Glutamate
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
Monosodium Glutamate
  11/22/25
(witch)
Raul Mondesi circa 1998
  11/22/25
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lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
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yooper
  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
Daddy Tits
  11/22/25
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.,.,.,.;;';'.,.'.,,...,;',,,.;';...,.';,;'
  11/23/25
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kenneth play
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
real men wearing real watches
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
real men wearing real watches
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
Drunkard
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
Amateur Millennial Butt Porn
  11/22/25
?
Drunkard
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
yooper
  11/22/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
Amateur Millennial Butt Porn
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
lucius quinctius cincinnatus
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
Amateur Millennial Butt Porn
  11/22/25
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Monosodium Glutamate
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
yooper
  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
( ?_?)
  11/22/25
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your thoughts (don't) control reality
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
Roblox
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
yooper
  11/22/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
samoth
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
( ?_?)
  11/22/25
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your thoughts (don't) control reality
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
kenneth play
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
Drunkard
  11/23/25


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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

Seems like witchcraft to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452778)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: Monosodium Glutamate

Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are just that, simple.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable Knowed One!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452784)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: Monosodium Glutamate

Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and change the direction of a force, making it easier to lift heavy objects. A single, fixed pulley can change the direction of force, while a system of multiple pulleys (called a block-and-tackle) provides mechanical advantage by distributing the weight across more ropes, requiring less force to lift the load, but over a longer distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Raul Mondesi circa 1998

(witch)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452815)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452823)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: yooper (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452948)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Daddy Tits

You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics chief

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453151)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: .,.,.,.;;';'.,.'.,,...,;',,,.;';...,.';,;'




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453220)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: kenneth play



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453167)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity by transferring the load from up to down?

But then why does the effort required to lift the load decrease with every additional pulley system?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: real men wearing real watches

cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would “unreverse” the gravity, thereby rendering it useless. kind of like a “double negative” for the wordcels out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: real men wearing real watches

after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. a dual-pulley system would have the second pulley upside-down, thus reversing the gravity twofold. in this system, the rope isn’t used to exert force but rather to keep the load from floating away.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: Drunkard

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452855)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn

He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP is genuinely wondering why a rope on a wheel moves when you pull it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Drunkard

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452899)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley working involves a demonstration of a pulley working?

That’s not by accident.

How do they work!?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: yooper (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±)

it's because you're trading distance for force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452950)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452968)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: lucius quinctius cincinnatus (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspired us by showing through one of the profits that this is a pulley?

And if that happened millennia ago, is it still happening now? Are today’s rich and famous really prophets chosen by God? Will Elon Musk and Sam Altman lead us to Nirvana?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn

Interesting typo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452972)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: Monosodium Glutamate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453345)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: yooper (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±)

you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and learn this shit

you should also buy some rope and learn some knots. this is my favorite knot that I use multiple times per week: https://www.animatedknots.com/tumble-hitch-knot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: ( ?_?)

ooooh, i love knots too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453183)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: your thoughts (don't) control reality



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453347)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Roblox

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49452988)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: yooper (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±)

I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got assigned to the Hot Girl's group (there was only one in a class of 200). I took care of all the work in the class and wound up dating her for a year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453016)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: samoth

A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using centripetal force. (Or maybe it's centrifugal force. Pretty sure it's one of those.)

If you get really deep into the physics, the mass of the pully actually exerts a geometrodynamical force that acts upon the field containing the rope.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old jeep, and when he sprayed lube into the stuck alternator he also sprayed it all over the belt. Intuitively I thought that was a mistake. Seems like you'd want more friction there between the belt and the pulley

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


Gets good around 13:30

https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7ddMQQQF43ptR5H

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453127)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,.....................


Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted his attention.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453130)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: ( ?_?)

Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a couple pulleys together, it confuses the gravity molecules and they stop pushing down on the object you are trying to move, hence, the object stops feeling heavy and you can build things with large blocks such as pyramids, and also places like Nan Madol. The more pulleys you place together, the more confused the molecules becomes, its rather simple akshully

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: your thoughts (don't) control reality



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453346)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: kenneth play

this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just the same, i am confident that oldhlsdude could explain this at a level that is higher than average board understanding

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Drunkard

Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near so as a result that’s not hard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2)#49453294)