York Barbell Club - Part II

[SmokinJoe87]

Found my first "set screw" bar today. Set screws, screw on donuts, and no markings on the collars. The collars/sleeves are a bit rusty (and should clean up nicely), but boy is that shaft CLEAN! All of the original bluing still on there, and the knurling is immaculate. Crap lighting, but wanted to share.





The other two bars are old Capp's TPB's in great shape that I picked up tonight also. These are the older style with the stamped/engraved logo in the ends.

[morebarbell]

Picked up this old York Iron Horseshoe. Really cool piece that I have wanted for awhile. All original parts from what I can tell.

Congrats! What is the purpose of the chain?

Found my first "set screw" bar today. Set screws, screw on donuts, and no markings on the collars. The collars/sleeves are a bit rusty (and should clean up nicely), but boy is that shaft CLEAN! All of the original bluing still on there, and the knurling is immaculate. Crap lighting, but wanted to share.





The other two bars are old Capp's TPB's in great shape that I picked up tonight also. These are the older style with the stamped/engraved logo in the ends.

[AttyGuy]

Lol.

[AttyGuy]

Found my first "set screw" bar today. Set screws, screw on donuts, and no markings on the collars. The collars/sleeves are a bit rusty (and should clean up nicely), but boy is that shaft CLEAN! All of the original bluing still on there, and the knurling is immaculate. Crap lighting, but wanted to share.

70's era transitional bar.

[RemainDieHard]

Found my first "set screw" bar today. Set screws, screw on donuts, and no markings on the collars. The collars/sleeves are a bit rusty (and should clean up nicely), but boy is that shaft CLEAN! All of the original bluing still on there, and the knurling is immaculate. Crap lighting, but wanted to share.

Looks exactly like the one I have. When I was researching through this thread I saw a few others with the same configuration, but I thought the knurling rings were different. Mine are just like yours.

[urbanlifter]

Waited a long time for some of these to pop up in my area for cheap, came with some old Weider plates and a cheap bar, paid about $0.27 a pound. Should clean up nice

[AttyGuy]

Sweet!

[THErunCMD]

Congrats! How many plates did you get? Just the pair?

(Read wrong at first)

[AttyGuy]

Waited a long time for some of these to pop up in my area for cheap, came with some old Weider plates and a cheap bar, paid about $0.27 a pound. Should clean up nice

BTW, you $0.07 a pound too much. But you got them with Weider plates. . . .

[urbanlifter]

I hear you. If I dump the Weider weights on CL the pair of Yorks should be close to free. Trying to decide on what to do, the old international weider plates to my surprise were pretty accurate. Within 0.2 to 0.4lbs off, but all pairs were EXACLTY the same weight. Kind of like the old look of the Weider weights.

Now the big question, to paint or not to paint?

[AttyGuy]

Now the big question, to paint or not to paint?

What? Your ladies? Your nails? Them Weiders or the Yorks?

I'd paint.

[urbanlifter]

Nail biter here, polish never lasts very long. But I do paint my toe nails to match my belt and shoes!

Will definitely paint the Weider set, thinking about the York's. Didn't want to ruin the old school look, but might paint them anyway.

[THErunCMD]

They might clean up fairly okay with some oil and a rag. I did that with one pair I have that was worse off than yours. The others I painted - I like both.

[urbanlifter]

Supposed to rain for the next 7 days here in Ohio, so I got bored and decided to go ahead and paint the new (old rusty) York plates. They turned out so well I painted the ancient Weider's to match, not too shabby!

Two coats of rust prevention primer


Followed by 2 coats of finish


Finishing touches on the lettering!


Weider's to match, just may keep them now

[urbanlifter]

Congrats! How many plates did you get? Just the pair?

(Read wrong at first)

Yep, wish he had more,but just the pair. I responded to his CL ad within an hour of positing, and he said his email blew up after my initial response. These should pair nicely with my York G2's, now I'm just missing that elusive vintage York bar!

[THErunCMD]

nice painting setup, way better than what I did. Those Weiders are cool too.

[ffrink]

My eyes deceive me. It looks like a 65 on the left, 85 on the right. They are both 65s, right?

I love the globe style. I'd really want to start a collection, but they are beyond what I'm willing to pay. Absolutely sweet pick up.
Out of curiosity, how accurate are they?

Expected a visit from TJLynch yesterday so cleaned the garage. He got hung up and couldn't make it but I did manage to move the 85s and weighed one of them. It weighed 84 lbs 13 oz.

[urbanlifter]

nice painting setup, way better than what I did. Those Weiders are cool too.

Thanks! My initial setup was cardboard on grass, but I quickly realized that I started too late in the day and wouldn't have time to properly let them dry before flipping. So i used my homemade dip bars and a couple saw horses. Worked really well, being able to rotate them during painting made it easy to fill all the grooves.

For those interested, a tip on painting the lettering. First coat went on sloppy, you could see brush marks pretty bad and I thought I had gotten in over my head. So I did a light coat and followed up with a second about two minutes later, and you couldn't even tell it was done with a brush. This has me thinking about painting my G2's now, the original paint job on them was terrible. LOL

[THErunCMD]

Nice yeah I had the same problem but just let mine sit overnight. Next time I will buy some PVC and some saw horses if I have a fair amount to do. May do that to refinish my smaller plates...stripping was was hard part for me.

I used a white paint pen for lettering. Two coats(one after drying) worked pretty well. Otherwise I probably would have used a sponge brush.

The black I just did with Rustoleum painters touch which includes primer.

[urbanlifter]

White pen sounds like it would have been alot faster, I got a fine brush and really took my time painting the tops and sides of the lettering. Was lucky enough to find a super cheap can of premixed gray in the clearance section at Lowes, although for some reason it dried close to white (probably why it was returned).

If I were to re-paint the G2's I probably wouldn't completely strip the paint, I found with painting my bench the paint sticks better when I just removed the bad rust and roughed up the surface of the old paint. Been a couple years since I did my bench with Rustoleum and its held well, it will be interesting to see how the paint holds on these plates.

[SmokinJoe87]

Finally found the missing piece of the big puzzle...



All that is left are 6's, a single 7, 8's, 9's and 12's for a complete 1-100 set. My 2's and 5's are buns though, not roundheads.

[AttyGuy]

It's never over. . .

[SmokinJoe87]

It's never over. . .

I've found that out...

[BIgOrange865]

It's never over. . .

^^^this.

Still looking for York bumpers

[Northernmoris]

It's never over. . .

Says who?

[AttyGuy]

Says who?

Get off the iPhone, go downstairs and look in your basement. Then, look in the garage. Finally, check out the shed. Is it over? No. It never ends.

[STR8OUT]

New additions to the collection today, 8x45 York DD, 60's bar, and Shipwheels. Another bar where the knurling is "turned down" I guess we are calling it. The knurling is thinner than the bar diameter.


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[THErunCMD]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing! Not sure how you don't have a York number in your sig. I think you're the king of deeps now :P

[SmokinJoe87]

Beautiful stuff, STR8OUT. Jelly of those shipwheels!

[AttyGuy]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing! Not sure how you don't have a York number in your sig. I think you're the king of deeps now :P

Why does a man need a number when he can help himself to all the fresh well water, firewood, and vegetables he wants out of other men's back yards, and then keep all his finds in a basement, instead a showroom in the Carolinas?