The 'No Excuses Homemade Equipment Crew'

[Jetigen]

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[darren.dugan]

Each are 66" long and 68.2lbs.

[Northernmoris]

Each are 66" long and 68.2lbs.

They look F'ing awesome.

[Skidmarx]

Nice farmer handles !

[ADLTSWM]

Homemade power rack, Hi/Lo cable assembly, Multi grip row bar and rope attachment.

[FNG37]

Had a friend at my old job knurl up the handles for the farmer's walk handles I am making (1.125" diameter)

soclean/10

That's some nice checkering

[conrad2nr]

Good day,

I'm looking to invest in a Mig welder (preferably Lincoln or Miller) for home projects like in this thread.

Someone recommended I should look for a wire fed and gas welder with about 130-140 amp. Can anyone recommend where I can pick up one online?

[ADLTSWM]

Good day,

I'm looking to invest in a Mig welder (preferably Lincoln or Miller) for home projects like in this thread.

Someone recommended I should look for a wire fed and gas welder with about 130-140 amp. Can anyone recommend where I can pick up one online?

There are several good online shops. Some are cheaper than others with certain things so you just got to figure out which welder you want and search from there. You mentioned Lincoln and they recently came out with the 210 MP (mig, stick and tig).

[conrad2nr]

There are several good online shops. Some are cheaper than others with certain things so you just got to figure out which welder you want and search from there. You mentioned Lincoln and they recently came out with the 210 MP (mig, stick and tig).

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

[jcrous]

I made some Weight Plate Stuts (12 of them) that I have added to the rear two pillars, facing Backwards to carry the plates.



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I Immediately have more space and the whole setup looks neater. In the third image, in the background is my steel lathe and milling machine.

[kepler2008]

Home made olympic plates rack :

[hartgeh6]

Afternoon Group,

I admire and respect everyone DIY efforts. Unfortunately I do not have access to equipment nor the skills to use them LOL. I would like to know if someone would be willing to make a Rogue monkey bar www DOT roguefitness DOT com/x-43m-multi-grip-crossmember for my power rack.

I have a york FTS power rack.

www DOT yorkbarbell DOT com/NonCommercial/index DOT php?ProductTypeID=25&ProductID=1466


This is my first post and I can post links nor pictures. Please replace DOT with .

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

hartgeh6

[Freakin11]

$12 technique plates

Wife and her sister just started lifting and I don't want them destroying my 10lb bumper plates. I couldn't justify spending $100 on some plastic plates.

Buy two of these 17.75"x1" wood rounds from HomeDepot for $5.42 each (price may vary depending on your location)
www (dot) homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Edge-Glued-Round-Common-1-in-x-17-3-4-in-Actual-1-0-in-x-17-75-in-680435/202017011

Drill 2" hole directly in center of round. I used a 2" forstner bit but a spade bit or holesaw would have the same result. You could even use a standard drill and a half-round file if you hate yourself.


The 2" hole from the forstner bit is incredibly clean, but 2" is just *slightly* too large to fit completely snug on the bar. Going to try a layer of duct or gorilla tap through the center to tighten it up, or get a second set of rounds and glue them together to make it wider and more stable.

They weigh exactly 4lbs each. Standard olympic plates are 17.7", so these are ever so slightly larger.

Here's a pic
imgur.com/3kdr4KV.jpg

[RestoringTally]

$12 technique plates

Wife and her sister just started lifting and I don't want them destroying my 10lb bumper plates. I couldn't justify spending $100 on some plastic plates.

Buy two of these 17.75"x1" wood rounds from HomeDepot for $5.42 each (price may vary depending on your location)
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded...0435/202017011

Drill 2" hole directly in center of round. I used a 2" forstner bit but a spade bit or holesaw would have the same result. You could even use a standard drill and a half-round file if you hate yourself.


The 2" hole from the forstner bit is incredibly clean, but 2" is just *slightly* too large to fit completely snug on the bar. Going to try a layer of duct or gorilla tap through the center to tighten it up, or get a second set of rounds and glue them together to make it wider and more stable.

They weigh exactly 4lbs each. Standard olympic plates are 17.7", so these are ever so slightly larger.

Here's a pic
imgur.com/3kdr4KV.jpg

Embedded pic for you.



Looks like they should work well.

[irongrandpa]

I recently built this rack mounted reverse hyper attachment to use in the rack as there is absolutely no space in the gym for a stand alone piece. I had a Parabody preacher curl pad that I used and the steel, bearings, and wood were stuff I had in my workshop. I started to attach handles to it , but it works well by holding onto the uprights. It sits on top of the safeties, so it's easy to set up and take down.

[ProtienandIron]

Nice to see this thread still going guys,I'll slowly work my way through repping folk as I go for there efforts.

[Northernmoris]

Hey, look who's back. Looks good. How are you?

[KBKB]

Nice to see this thread still going guys,...

Welcome back!

[ProtienandIron]

Hey, look who's back. Looks good. How are you?

Hi Moris, good to see you. All is well here thanks, working hard and training hard. How you getting on?

Welcome back!

Cheers KB, glad you're all still here, forums move on quite quickly but not much has changed. Are you still doing the photography?

[KBKB]

Are you still doing the photography?

I am, though I've switched to a small point and shoot for a lot of my hiking photography. (It's easier to carry.) This is the camera I'm using:

[ProtienandIron]

[QUOTE=KBKB;1339053071]I am, though I've switched to a small point and shoot for a lot of my hiking photography. (It's easier to carry.) This is the camera I'm using:

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Looks good. Can't be much fun dragging a huge SLR up a mountain. My bro in laws camera was a sony, we got some great hiking pics from it.

[MonkeyT]

Bamboo Bar - Weighs around 2kg, great for the kids with a pair of Eleiko Tech Discs - Total 7kg+/-



Inspired by the Rogue Bamboo (Bandbell) bar - Natural bamboo stick with some Adidas 25mm - 50mm sleeves on each end. Full size between the sleeves so it mimics a full size technique bar, and it is rack able.


Hand made ceramic "Ivanko" plate.

Made by one of my boys in his pottery class.

[Xone]

had an easy idea for solo board pressing- works great and much better than trying to strap board press boards to your chest.

[irongrandpa]

I recently built this 14" camber bar using sleeves from a bent BB, some scrap 2x2" tubing and a piece of cold rolled 32mm bar. It replaced my original built from pipe.



original bar



new bar with sleeves

[Northernmoris]

I recently built this 14" camber bar using sleeves from a bent BB, some scrap 2x2" tubing and a piece of cold rolled 32mm bar. It replaced my original built from pipe.



original bar



new bar with sleeves

Nice work. Does it feel much different?

[irongrandpa]

Nice work. Does it feel much different?

I just brought it in from the shop, I'll be using it on Monday. The new one is about an inch lower than the old and is 88" long.It's also heavier, the one made of sch.40 pipe only weighed 36lbs. the new one weighs 65lbs. I'm anxious to try it it out.

[Stasher1]

I recently built this 14" camber bar using sleeves from a bent BB, some scrap 2x2" tubing and a piece of cold rolled 32mm bar. It replaced my original built from pipe.



original bar



new bar with sleeves

Beautiful. On spread.

[cory2731]

there is some really great stuff in here. im very impressed with the talent and ingenuity!

[irongrandpa]

Nice work. Does it feel much different?

I used the camber bar with sleeves today. I didn't notice that sleeves made any any difference over the pipe on the first one I built. But having a bar instead of pipe across my back felt better, also, the new one isn't quite as rigid as the bar made from pipe. I'm happy with the new one, as I mentioned in my original post, this bar weighs 65lbs. vrs. 35lbs. for the first one made from pipe.

[irongrandpa]

I built this cambered squat bar for a friend after he used the one I built for myself. He has a private gym that he'll be using it in.