Building your own equipment

Also check out this guy as well. He's fucking insane and has built everything you can think of in terms of gym equipment. There's no limit to what you can do, even poor uneducated people in Africa have built homegyms.

youtube.com/watch?v=cheJymRngnA

Deadlift platform.
I think that's probably the most commonly homemade equipment

Get your shit together. There's no reason why you couldn't make any of those things. There is nothing worse than a man paralyzed by his own ideas of his uselessness. There's literally retarded people who have become good at making things by sheer practice.

Thank you man, I'm really just interested in trying to build things and I like to lift so I figured I'd try to build something I'd use.

I'd love to have something like this outside

garagegymreviews.com/diy-outdoor-weightlifting-platform-rack/

I would start with building concrete weights then. You make a mold using landscape edging, planter base, or something similar. Use cut PVC or ABS pipe in the middle of it for your barbell sleeve. You'll mix concrete to the right constancy and put it into the mold. I recommend you vibrate just after you put the concrete in. You can use anything that vibrates a whole lot against the side of the mold. You can watch videos of how to make these weights on Youtube. Wait at least a week before using them, they need to cure.

You'll save a fair amount of money using concrete weights, but they are not as durable as metal weights, so try not to drop them from height. Otherwise, they are still pretty strong. You can also reinforce the mold before you put the concrete in for added tensile strength.

It's about $6 for a 30kg bag of concrete, so 9 cents a pound plus your plastic pipe.

You're right, for sure, at least about the loading pin and wrist roller.
The cable system though... that could be dangerous if not done well.

Probably going to build a lifting platform.
Already drew up some plans.
Prefab ones are way too expensive for what they are, and I think even the most incompetent person could build one for themselves

>The cable system though
It depends, you could find weight ratings for most components. The wire is the only part of the system that is likely to fail catastrophically, just buy something with a good rating. Rated weight pulleys and carabiners are easy to find. I wonder if you could use climbing rope instead of cable. It would save you from terminating the ends with those little shackle clamps or whatever they are called.

I don't know what the cost would be versus something store bought, but almost everything you buy from the store isn't nearly as safe as you think. Chinese pot metal and shit made for the lowest cost, you're better off building stuff yourself if safety is an issue because you can overbuild it and understand how it can fuck up.

The spud system was replicated here. garage-gyms.com/how-to-repair-upgrade-rebuild-your-spud-inc-pulley/

You can buy the exact pulley the use for $13. Meaning you would only have to pick up the cable from Lowes or some similar place and whatever you want to attach it to the rack.

Something like this would be cheap for cable:
lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-30-ft-Weldless-Vinyl-Coated-Steel-Cable/1000179199

let’s see them.

i wanted to make a pulley system in my rack but i've found very cheap pulldown + low cable plate loaded machine. Couple steel profiles locally welded + 2 attachments and cable. I won't have to mess around with the rack and it will be mounted to a wall always ready for action.

>I also want to build a loading pin
pipe + pipe flange, done

>wrist roller
in your case with half rack you can do this:
youtube.com/watch?v=x2JM4weqpPY

if you got full rack you can pop a pipe over your safety bar (if it's a bar and not this square thingy) and roll away

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