Pulley Testing
March 25th, 2010
We had fun this week! The Ziplinegear.com team went outdoors to enjoy some of the beautiful spring weather we’re having, and ran a series of speed tests on our pulley lineup. We set up a 300′ zip line out in front of our warehouse and sent a 175lb reel of cable down the line about 50 times, timing how fast the different pulleys could carry it. We’ll be using this information to find the friction coefficients of each pulley and predict exactly how fast a specific pulley will come in at the end of a given zip line. Fun stuff!
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