My girlfriend and I have decided we want a stripper pole in my room. We want to be able to put it in and out somehow, and also I live in an apartment, so we can't just bolt it into the floor or the ceiling (which also has asbestos, btw).
So my question now is what kind of base I need to make it so it won't tip over. So let's say I'm on it ( ), I weigh 175 pounds (when naked), then how the hell do I calculate how much weight I need in the base and how far from the pole? I mean, if I spin around the pole then I could exert more than 175 pounds of lateral force, right? But then I think it essentially depends on how fast I'm spinning. Someone go clock a stripper's rotational speed for me, and then report back here.
She weighs less than me, so if it works for me, it will work for her. (An important consideration .)
A pole affixed to a base is like that old thing where you put weights out on a ruler, right? Where the distance times the force equals the torque on the fulcrum? So the farther out I put the weight in the base, the better. Right?
I think I found out why strip clubs aren't run by strippers. The physics suck.
(Seriously though, if you have some ideas, I don't want it to fall over and I also don't want to have to pull out something that weighs 300 pounds to put it up.)
So my question now is what kind of base I need to make it so it won't tip over. So let's say I'm on it ( ), I weigh 175 pounds (when naked), then how the hell do I calculate how much weight I need in the base and how far from the pole? I mean, if I spin around the pole then I could exert more than 175 pounds of lateral force, right? But then I think it essentially depends on how fast I'm spinning. Someone go clock a stripper's rotational speed for me, and then report back here.
She weighs less than me, so if it works for me, it will work for her. (An important consideration .)
A pole affixed to a base is like that old thing where you put weights out on a ruler, right? Where the distance times the force equals the torque on the fulcrum? So the farther out I put the weight in the base, the better. Right?
I think I found out why strip clubs aren't run by strippers. The physics suck.
(Seriously though, if you have some ideas, I don't want it to fall over and I also don't want to have to pull out something that weighs 300 pounds to put it up.)