Why Snatch Blocks are AWESOME (How Pulleys Work) – Smarter Every Day 228

Published on December 18, 2019
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If I did this right then these are Amazon affiliate links to purchase a snatch block. (I have no idea what I’m doing)
$22 – black 8 ton – 5 stars – https://amzn.to/2DMR4s8
$25 – red 8 ton – https://amzn.to/355WoTi
$29 – orange 10 ton https://amzn.to/2OWQFdb

We discussed Snatch Blocks on this episode of the No Dumb Questions podcast:
https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2019/9/21/067-the-lost-city-of-nineveh

If you’d like to 3D print the Snatch Blocks and pulleys we use in this video they are here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4022579

Read Plutarch’s account of Archimedes:
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~sph/osher-course/plutarch-on-archimedes.pdf

The wikipedia page on Block and Tackle is really good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_and_tackle

I thought this was a great video about why you should put blankets on your winch cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPba-34ARZY

Chris Hadfield is a veteran Canadian Astronaut and a great friend of science. He engages the public often and is a great follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield
He can be contacted for speaking engagements here:
https://chrishadfield.ca/

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