How Do Window Blinds Work?

Visit FixMyBlinds to learn how to fix your blinds: http://bit.ly/2tHmifk This video covers how horizontal window blinds work. The mechanism that allows this to work is at the very top. The cord lock allows the blinds to be held up by pinching the lift strings between two rollers. The tilting of the blinds is handled by the wand tilt mechanism or the cord tilt mechanism. These mechanisms turn the gears, which turn the rod, the drums, which pulls the ladder strings to tilt the blinds. Read the blog post about this video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25057732 Follow me on social media: http://www.facebook.com/JaredOwenAnimations http://www.instagram.com/JaredOwenAnimations https://www.twitter.com/JaredOwen3D https://www.patreon.com/JaredOwenAnimations Thank you to my Patreon supporters: Adam Fishman Andrew Tan Axel Nieves Bryan King Felix Freiberger Jason Wellband Jim Postier Karen King Large Raccoon Levi Mabe Omar Sagga Roland Ochoa Stephen A. Wilson Todd Eichel Help me subtitle this video into your language: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=QvLdVWS_DsM&ref=share Music: "This Little Light of Mine" by E's Jammy Jams Made with Blender 2.79b Here is some of the gear that I use for animation: Graphics Card: GTX 1080ti https://amzn.to/2t70HN0 CPU: i7-8700k https://amzn.to/2WEk9OE Motherboard: Asus Prim Z370-A https://amzn.to/2t4EVth Microphone: Samson Go Mic https://amzn.to/2GaSpvV #howitworks #windowblinds #b3d