Regarding the Zuver plates. He said he squatted with them when he first got them and that it took several guys just to load them on the bar.
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03-03-2013, 12:39 PM #121
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03-03-2013, 06:06 PM #122
What many people don't know about these plates is that they are so poorly balanced and some are off 4 or 5 pounds on the 50lb plates. Also alot of them cracked around the man's wrist. Zuver's first custom plates were a knock off of the Paramount barbell deep dish plate. There was a total of 150 plates made with the man on them. Somewhere around 100 50lb, and I am not sure about the breakdown of the larger plates, but there are more still on the west coast.
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The local High School that I've gotten some free equipment from has quite a few of these type plates, they are cut out of pieces of steel for testing purposes, he gets them and has the hole bored. He weighs them and uses them for heavier plates, most of his are about 89-90 lbs.
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When I was young I always wanted to get two man hole covers and drill them out for oly bar use, but I never did it. It was probably best that way anyway, as I'm not sure that somebody would have liked to find their car stuck in a man hole
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03-12-2013, 11:57 AM #132
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Pics or it's not true.
You need a good rack, a bench, and a 300-lb Olympic weight set. Now, what was your question?
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You need a good rack, a bench, and a 300-lb Olympic weight set. Now, what was your question?
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03-25-2013, 04:34 AM #139
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This is posted in the York Gang thread, but I'm putting it up here too.
Not one bar, but two. With collars. Ship's wheel collars. These 1960's era York Oly bar sat in storage since the 1960's when the owner went into the military. There is minimal, if any, wear on the bars. Rockettrucker picked them up recently.
From the 1960 York Barbell Catalog:
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Does anyone know the origin of the standard sizes for plates, in the USA, particularly the 35 lbs and 45 lbs sizes? Or when they became popular, and what sizes were common before them? I've seen in some of these older thread that there were 50lb standard style weights, and of course 100lb plates are still made.
The: 10 25 50 100 seems more obvious and mimics the way other things are broken out like our coins. (1,5,10,25,50,100) Paper currency has the weird 1,2,5,10,20,50,100 series.
You rarely see 20 lbs, 40 lbs, 60 lbs or 80 lbs, nor 70lbs or 90lbs - the latter two of which fit better with the 35 lbs / 45 lbs convention at the mid sized plates.
(And of course there is the kilogram denominated plates for international types... )
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03-26-2013, 05:37 PM #145
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York Barbell (Bob Hoffman) copied the Berg Hantel barbell design back in the 1930's. The plates were in kilos.
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Those ship wheel collars are sweet. Lovely bars too.
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