Trying to make a homemade chin up bar? IN UK

[badatusernames]

So... Im trying to make a homemade chin up bar, for pull ups etc.

Im trying to build it on a rafter/joist

Ive seen many ideas for them, however the majority of these are USA based, and I cant find the components for them in the UK.



Would anyone know where I can get these? Or the proper names of these items?

(Ive tried, Screwfix, Wickes etc) Any help offered will be appreciated.

thanks

[extremez]

try a local plumbing supply store. they should have all that stuff.

[yankeemarko1]

try a local plumbing supply store. they should have all that stuff.

We have a winner. I know you have plumbing in your house. Plumbing supply shop would be your best bet.

[Wildtim]

You don't have hardware stores?

If you can't figure this out do you really want to be trying to build something you are going to be hanging on?

Depending exactly what type of bar you are trying to build there are either to many pieces or not enough pieces in that picture.

I could tell you what we call all those pieces but since you guys don't exactly speak what is commonly known as American English, knoing my terms wouldn't help. Heck I've heard some construction terms that vary by region in this country. I can also tell roughly which coast a guy is from by his tool belt but that won't do you any good either.

[Essexlad]

I've tried looking for this stuff before. Trouble is all plumbing in the UK is done with either PVC or narrow gauge copper pipe. So that's all they sell in hardware and plumbing stores. The only place you'll find selling that stuff is specialist online dealers, and they generally only sell in bulk, and it's bloody expensive.

It'll be a lot cheaper to buy a doorway bar like this;
http://www.chinups.co.uk/index.php

or try and mount their wall bar to your joists (or fit it to a wall as intended);
http://www.chinups.co.uk/wall_bar.php

[Wildtim]

Do you guys have household gas or propane?

Black pipe works just as well.

[fishpat86]

How far apart are your joists? 28mm dowel from B&Q will take 100+ kilograms of weight as long as you have the dowel supported every 600mm.

[Wildtim]

They better not be more than 60 cm. But even if they are perhaps he could get a short section of wooden handrail for a stair and have a thickbar pull-up station

[fishpat86]

They better not be more than 60 cm. But even if they are perhaps he could get a short section of wooden handrail for a stair and have a thickbar pull-up station

That would be awesome for griptraining. I was thinking of making a board grip pullup attachment type thingy. Even if the spans of dowel were longer than 600mm it would still be ok as long as OP's hand placement was close to the supports.

[Essexlad]

Do you guys have household gas or propane?

Black pipe works just as well.

Again, all interior stuffs done with slightly larger gauge copper pipes, soldered together. We appear to have an aversion to steel over here .

Ok, OP what I'd do is buy something like this;

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.js...&isSearch=true

They do it in shorter lengths, but I'm not spending ages searching. B&Q, wickes, homebase etc.. only go up to around 20mm diameter and 1.4mm thickness, ideally try and find somewhere that sells thicker (Hint: no regular DIY store will, you'll have to find a more specialist place). You might be able to get away with 1.4mm, but I'm not sure and I don't know how much you want to load it.
Once you've got your tube just cut it to the length to span 2 or more joists. Then build two wooden mounts for it at each end. Slot the pipe into the mounts, and bolt the mounts to the joists.

If you can't figure out a way to build a strong enough mount, it's probably not something you should be attempting anyway. And just buy a doorway or wall mounted one.

[Wildtim]

You use solder joints for gas lines?

Jesus! How do you make repairs?

We are using plastic for almost everything now days. I've worked on construciton sites where even the stub outs would be cut off the slabs for their metals value (about 1/4 pound per house). Once you run the wiring in a few places you had to make sure you had good locks and an alarm or thives would strip all the copper electrical wires out of the new construction. Copper gas and water lines? forget about it, even locks and guards would have had a hard time keeping that intact.

[badatusernames]

I was thinking bolting two of these to the joist

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/50816/...OSFFA?ts=86960

The only problem is, There powder coated, so will get very slippery with sweaty hands lol.

[fishpat86]

I was thinking bolting two of these to the joist

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/50816/...OSFFA?ts=86960

The only problem is, There powder coated, so will get very slippery with sweaty hands lol.

Wrap them in sandpaper.

[Cadz]

So... Im trying to make a homemade chin up bar, for pull ups etc.

Im trying to build it on a rafter/joist

Ive seen many ideas for them, however the majority of these are USA based, and I cant find the components for them in the UK.

Would anyone know where I can get these? Or the proper names of these items?

(Ive tried, Screwfix, Wickes etc) Any help offered will be appreciated.

thanks

This company (first link) will ship overseas no idea about shipping cost but an email will get you a quote.
http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/index.html

This is the sort of thing they sell (2nd link) which is what you want. Although I don't see why you can't get a local place in the UK to weld one up for you.
http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/chinning.html


As far as the stuff in the pics it looks like it's all 1.25" galvanized pipe 1.25" is the outside diameter.
Then you have the same size elbows and Flanges and Pipe.
The Flanges bolt into your floor joist or wall then you add 8-12" of pipe then use elbows to turn it into a [____] shape.
Then your final piece of pipe.
Much easier to have something welded at a local shop were they build kit cars. Any shop that can build a Caterham or similar car
can weld you up something like in the pics of the link I sent.

[trythis]

Google = pipe fittings / tube supplies / galvanised pipe/tube, the fittings are not cheap.

[muhaha]

some options if you fail to find the mats


rings or towel

more exercise can be done w/ ring though

[Blap Blaow]

You use solder joints for gas lines?

Jesus! How do you make repairs?

Modern gas supply pipe is now yellow MDPE (flexible plastic) over here.

So... Im trying to make a homemade chin up bar, for pull ups etc.

Im trying to build it on a rafter/joist

Ive seen many ideas for them, however the majority of these are USA based, and I cant find the components for them in the UK.



Would anyone know where I can get these? Or the proper names of these items?

(Ive tried, Screwfix, Wickes etc) Any help offered will be appreciated.

thanks

They look like handrail components:
http://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/de...3.2M-6136.html


http://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/de...e-40-6142.html


http://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/de...e-25-6125.html

[Trevy-trev]

when I lived with my parents still I built a chinup bar in the basement. I screwed two 2x6" boards hanging down from the two parallel joists drilled a hole in each and slid a 1.5" metal pipe through the holes. it took me literally 10 minutes to do and is sturdy as hell.

[dingfastener]

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