I spent probably 3 hours total on this. I guess someone who knew what they were doing could have it done in a little over an hour. To match the round tubing contour to the square tubing I traced the contour with a scribe, cut slots with a cutoff wheel up to the scribe mark, then ground I all out with a grinding wheel and ground a little here and there till it made a good fit. I realized later I could have cut a thin piece off the round tubing to use as a guide for the plasma cutter and saved a lot of time. I had a hard time getting everything fit up perfectly and it is still a tiny bit out of square. I originally thought I might tig weld it up since I like tig welding so much, I am really glad I didn't. I was pretty happy with my weld job I did on this. The whole point to the contraption is to elevate the plates off the floor, that way they can easily be slid on or off. Before I would roll it onto a 5 pound plate. This is a ton simpler.
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- weldin mike 27
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Good stuff. It would probably have taken me three hours or more as well, and I'm a tradesman. Keep up the good work. Ps most people who mouth off about how fast they are are usually rubbish.
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Butcher,
If you're deadlifting 900# then you don't need to care what others think about how fast you got it done.
Nice work and as the other's have said, fit up makes life a lot easier.
If you have a drill press and a hole saw the same size as the pipe, square tubing is very easy to cope. You can even do 2 copes at once if you plan it right by drilling with the hole saw where the 2 coped ends meet.
Len
If you're deadlifting 900# then you don't need to care what others think about how fast you got it done.
Nice work and as the other's have said, fit up makes life a lot easier.If you have a drill press and a hole saw the same size as the pipe, square tubing is very easy to cope. You can even do 2 copes at once if you plan it right by drilling with the hole saw where the 2 coped ends meet.
Len
Now go melt something.
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Great effort, you'd be pretty pleased with your results.
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Haha, I'm not deadlifting 900! I just wanted to see how easily the jack would move a loaded bar and I couldn't fit any more than 10 plates on the end.Braehill wrote:If you're deadlifting 900# then you don't need to care what others think about how fast you got it done.