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

Seems like witchcraft to me.
Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
Do you know how a lever or a screw work? Simple machines are...
blue slap-happy hall
  11/22/25
Wow, thank you for that transfer of knowledge, oh Honorable ...
Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
Pulleys work by using a wheel and rope to multiply force and...
blue slap-happy hall
  11/22/25
(witch)
Titillating Underhanded Becky Space
  11/22/25
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Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
...
aromatic police squad queen of the night
  11/22/25
You know how water is wet? Well that’s fluid dynamics ...
Bat-shit-crazy hairless candlestick maker multi-billionaire
  11/22/25
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Hairraiser walnut nowag
  11/23/25
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mustard pit potus
  11/22/25
Is it because you effectively negate the weight of gravity b...
Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
cq. if anything it seems like a system of two pulleys would ...
twinkling arrogant coffee pot weed whacker
  11/22/25
after thinking about this, the solution is kind of obvious. ...
twinkling arrogant coffee pot weed whacker
  11/22/25
It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.
Ruddy pervert corner
  11/22/25
He didn't say anything about compound pulleys. I think OP i...
bespoke cream mediation business firm
  11/22/25
?
Ruddy pervert corner
  11/22/25
Ever notice how every compelling explanation of a pulley wor...
Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
it's because you're trading distance for force
aromatic police squad queen of the night
  11/22/25
ljl
Darn tootin
  11/23/25
A fixed pulley has no effect on force
bespoke cream mediation business firm
  11/22/25
Unrelatedly, are pulleys a sign that God came down and inspi...
Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal
  11/22/25
Interesting typo
bespoke cream mediation business firm
  11/22/25
...
blue slap-happy hall
  11/23/25
you should buy a block and tackle from harbor freight and le...
aromatic police squad queen of the night
  11/22/25
ooooh, i love knots too
Mewling Shitlib Fat Ankles
  11/22/25
...
pea-brained vermilion place of business
  11/23/25
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gratitude
  11/23/25
Did you not take a Physics course in college?
frum chest-beating french chef whorehouse
  11/22/25
I miss college physics. We had assigned groups and I got ass...
aromatic police squad queen of the night
  11/22/25
They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are ...
Online Men
  11/23/25
A pully reverses the direction of the stress tensor using ce...
flickering dysfunction
  11/22/25
I just watched a YouTube video of a dood restoring an old je...
zombie-like insane persian spot
  11/22/25
Gets good around 13:30 https://youtu.be/gPOXLajvdds?si=u7...
zombie-like insane persian spot
  11/22/25
Was sure this was an NSAM thread. Not surprised it attracted...
big-titted insecure windowlicker casino
  11/22/25
Its all about the displacment of gravity. If you put a coupl...
Mewling Shitlib Fat Ankles
  11/22/25
...
pea-brained vermilion place of business
  11/23/25
this is dumber than the fish and lightning thread, but just ...
mustard pit potus
  11/22/25
Pretty sure the average board understanding is zero or near ...
Ruddy pervert corner
  11/23/25
Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.
SneakersSO
  11/23/25
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gratitude
  11/24/25


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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal

Seems like witchcraft to me.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: blue slap-happy hall

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=2в#49452779)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:08 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:19 PM
Author: blue slap-happy hall

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=2в#49452810)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Titillating Underhanded Becky Space

(witch)

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:21 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: aromatic police squad queen of the night



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy hairless candlestick maker multi-billionaire

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

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: Hairraiser walnut nowag



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: mustard pit potus



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal

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=2в#49452818)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: twinkling arrogant coffee pot weed whacker

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=2в#49452851)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:31 PM
Author: twinkling arrogant coffee pot weed whacker

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=2в#49453187)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:35 PM
Author: Ruddy pervert corner

It halves the distance ergo doubles the force.

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:39 PM
Author: bespoke cream mediation business firm

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=2в#49452864)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Ruddy pervert corner

?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal

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=2в#49452921)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:22 PM
Author: aromatic police squad queen of the night

it's because you're trading distance for force

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: Darn tootin (🐾👣)

ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2в#49454445)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: bespoke cream mediation business firm

A fixed pulley has no effect on force

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:03 PM
Author: Burgundy shivering jew son of senegal

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=2в#49452927)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: bespoke cream mediation business firm

Interesting typo

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:26 AM
Author: blue slap-happy hall



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: aromatic police squad queen of the night

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=2в#49452982)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Mewling Shitlib Fat Ankles

ooooh, i love knots too

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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM
Author: pea-brained vermilion place of business



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



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: gratitude (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2в#49454537)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: frum chest-beating french chef whorehouse

Did you not take a Physics course in college?

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: aromatic police squad queen of the night

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=2в#49453016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:41 PM
Author: Online Men

They do not cover pulleys in physics class because they are trying to keep us away from the Secret Truth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2в#49454477)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: flickering dysfunction

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=2в#49453007)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: zombie-like insane persian spot

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=2в#49453020)



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: zombie-like insane persian spot

Gets good around 13:30

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: big-titted insecure windowlicker casino

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

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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: Mewling Shitlib Fat Ankles

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=2в#49453176)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 5:29 AM
Author: pea-brained vermilion place of business



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



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Date: November 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: mustard pit potus

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=2в#49453190)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 1:59 AM
Author: Ruddy pervert corner

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=2в#49453294)



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Date: November 23rd, 2025 4:43 PM
Author: SneakersSO

Aren’t pulleys similar to Gears.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2в#49454483)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 3:58 AM
Author: gratitude (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801213&forum_id=2в#49455393)