BodySolid hack squat assembly

[trythis]

What is the proper way to set up a hack squat/ leg press, I have just assembled a BodySolid WLP-1000 but when I tightened it up the carriage was very tight against the 4 smaller wheels that run at right angles to the 4 large main rollers this is preventing the carriage to move smoothly up and down the side rails.

I first....
1 connected the rear stand to the base frame
2 slid the side rails onto the carriage
3 connected the side rails to the base frame
4 connected the top of the side rails to the small rail that was already attached to the rear stand.

I loosened off the bottom bolts connecting the side rails to the base and the carriage ran a lot more smoothly but they were not that tight to begin with and I feel that now they are not tight enough.

Is this the correct procedure or have I assembled it wrongly.

The WLP-1000 is very much the same as the newer GLP 1100 - the BodySolid instructions I found online only give an exploded view and not a step by step guide of connecting the parts.

[Bluerain]

I couldn't tell ya as I don't own one..maybe you should call bodysolid.

Now that I said that I know with my larger equipment ..crossover and
bodycraft legpress/hack you're not suppose to tighten any screws before you put the entire thing together.

Put it together and only tighten the screws a little as you go...still leave them loose tho .Once it's all built then go back and tighten each screw a little at a time. Then start over again and tighten each screw a little more each time until all of them are tightened.

[Wildtim]

One thing to remember about tighening bolts with locking nuts like they use on their equipment is: You only want them snug. Most people overtighten nuts, some to the point of deforming therefore weakening the tubing they are attached through.

For an engenier there are three levels of tight:

hand tight

Properly torqued (there is proper torque ration for every type of nut and bolt there is, I just don't know it)

Farmer tight (so called because farmers have a habit of tighening the bolts down to the point of half stripping them then tightening them more when they come loose because they are half stripped).

[PullBig]

You mean you are not supposed to use a air wrench to put your rack together.

[Wildtim]

^^^ thats funny!^^^

I actually did:D An air powered ratchet anyway.

[Bluerain]

You mean you are not supposed to use a air wrench to put your rack together.

When I was a kid my older brother use to send me to the hardware store to get sky hooks or the butcher for mouse knuckles.

I come back home and tell my brother they said they were all out of them and he would crack up . I guess the store owners knew someone put me up to it but I had no clue it was a joke at the time. After this happening several times I refused to go any longer because the store clerk and my brother always laughed.
I always thought something was fishy that they never had these items LOL

He still asks me from time to time to get him these things and we both crack up now.

How young and naive I was ... LOL

[trythis]

Haaaahh hhh

We used to get sent for glass hammers or glass nails and skirting ladders (skirting in the UK is the wood that you put above the flooring around the walls) so a skirting ladder would be 6 inches high, as a kid it was not unusual to run errands for neighbours who would write out shopping lists for us to give to the store keeper ie:

bread
butter
milk
salt
ham - but not the ****ty ham from last week my husband did not like that ham

[Bluerain]

Haaaahh hhh

We used to get sent for glass hammers or nails and skirting ladders (skirting in the UK is the wood that you put above the flooring around the walls) as a kid it was not unusual to run errands for neighbours who would write out shopping lists for us to give to the store keeper ie:

bread
butter
milk
salt
ham - but not the ****ty ham from last week my husband did not like that ham

Hahha Glass hammers ..that's a new one hahha

Not the ****ty ham from last week...LMAO So freaking funny !

[Bluerain]

Haaaahh hhh

We used to get sent for glass hammers or nails and skirting ladders (skirting in the UK is the wood that you put above the flooring around the walls) as a kid it was not unusual to run errands for neighbours who would write out shopping lists for us to give to the store keeper ie:

bread
butter
milk
salt
ham - but not the ****ty ham from last week my husband did not like that ham

By the way we call Skirting " Base Molding " here in the states.

[Wildtim]

Or just baseboard.

skirting goes around the bottom of mobile homes to cover up the frame and the wheels.

[Bluerain]

Or just baseboard.

skirting goes around the bottom of mobile homes to cover up the frame and the wheels.

Hmmm never own a mobile home...good to know. A skirt to me is something we wear or a skirt that goes around the bed.