Chris-Winfield
Banana
Planning on making home made dumbells , and home made incline bench.
either with steel pipe , or square tubing from lowes for the bench.
just wondering if anybody here has done it and if they have some simple low material quantity designs.
Im thinking the me using square tubing would be better depending on cost vs pipe.
because easier to mount the seat. But im guessing square tubing costs more. but with one a single bar to connect the pad to , its about alot of torque on the edges and connecting screws or bolts , since there would be pad hanging off the sides.. So think Im better off making bars that go out as wide as the pad. i'd make with support bars that run between them.
just looking for a little help on ideas. My ideas for the dumbells are either using pipe with brackets to have ends certain amount of weight can put , and lock on. and either buying the plates or making them also.
if I made the weights on my own they would most likely ... be concrete , but an adjustable dumbell I think be better for me because I could recycle that weight from the dumbells to the barbell later on , instead of pipe in concrete in a can or bucket.
but so just need a simple design made out of steel buyable from lowes , hopefully it will be used for mainy dumbells for now , but later on plan on being able to use a barbell on it. So probably build that in on the default design.
looking for opinions and ideas for now
either with steel pipe , or square tubing from lowes for the bench.
just wondering if anybody here has done it and if they have some simple low material quantity designs.
Im thinking the me using square tubing would be better depending on cost vs pipe.
because easier to mount the seat. But im guessing square tubing costs more. but with one a single bar to connect the pad to , its about alot of torque on the edges and connecting screws or bolts , since there would be pad hanging off the sides.. So think Im better off making bars that go out as wide as the pad. i'd make with support bars that run between them.
just looking for a little help on ideas. My ideas for the dumbells are either using pipe with brackets to have ends certain amount of weight can put , and lock on. and either buying the plates or making them also.
if I made the weights on my own they would most likely ... be concrete , but an adjustable dumbell I think be better for me because I could recycle that weight from the dumbells to the barbell later on , instead of pipe in concrete in a can or bucket.
but so just need a simple design made out of steel buyable from lowes , hopefully it will be used for mainy dumbells for now , but later on plan on being able to use a barbell on it. So probably build that in on the default design.
looking for opinions and ideas for now