It looks like a picture of my rack might be in this post

[OITW]

I tried to paste the pics into the text, but no luck. I got the rack back from the local vocational tech training center, no cost for them to drill new holes all the way up and down (one between each existing hole, they were very widely spaced), shorten the depth of the rack and weld the removed lengths onto the uprights to make it taller, and move the base cross support closer to the wall, allowing one to squat inside the cage facing the wall. I had one good set of safeties, but the set in the picture was bashed like a hair clip, and they straightened them right out. It's a keeper now.

If you are in the UK and can get the materials, I strongly recommend finding your local vocational training center and having them build your rack based on the Rip drawing. You can customize it, and it will only take a few days to complete for the fraction of the cost of a new one.

I got a dip attachment with the rack, and two other attachments that I don't know what to do with. The first is that horse-shoe shaped bar that has rubber caps on the ends and a flat spot with two steel pegs in the middle. There's nothing anywhere on that cage or the attachments where those pegs would fit. Does anyone know how this is used?

Same with the piece that looks like a very stubby dip bar. It's clear how it attaches to the cage, but how it's used is beyond me. Answers, anyone?

Thanks!

[Dastardly]

I am not sure what the rusty square section bar is for. But to me it looks like the horshoe one can be laid across the safety pins to be used as dip bars.

You would be facing towards the narrow end when using them, and sideways in the rack.


Who designed this rack and made the attachments?

[Sami]

Where in the UK are you and how much did it all cost in the end?

[OITW]

I'm just outside Peterborough, but I got the rack for 200 GBP (about $330) from a guy who runs a PL gym down near Norfolk. He was cool to deliver it, too. It's a homemade rack with heavier steel than the average storebought, but it was short. I called the local vo-tech and asked if they could use it for training by making the mods I wanted. I just wanted to shorten the depth, but when the teacher asked if I wanted to use the cuttings to make it taller, I agreed. On Friday I'm visiting them to get the safeties cut down to size now that the rack is shorter.

The odd pieces came with it because the guy I bought it from said they came with when he bought it, but he didn't know how they were used, either. The horseshoe piece comes from a company called Scorpion in IIRC Leicester (there's a label on the bar), I've meant to google them but haven't had the time. I think Dastardly's on the right track for its use, though.

I said UK for using the vo-tech, but it's a good idea anywhere. It's a good training exercise for measuring, making adjustments, drilling, cutting and welding in steel, so if you can spring for the raw materials the labor is covered.

If there's interest I'll show you the racks/saddles, they're different but very useful.

[LondonTiger]

Niceeee

[LondonTiger]

nice, the rusted bar looks like it was used to put a flat bench on an incline position or sommat.

[bowdirk]

Did someone say Rack?

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-Bowdirk

[OITW]

Bowdirk, I don't want to know where you were surfing when you found that.

[JM3]

nice pendant Bowdirk- did that nipple ring hurt when they put it in?

[Chewie_jrc]

Niceeee

Careful OITW, those magic words are like catnip to this kid :)