Hi all.
So I recently set up a home gym with a budget cage. The cage is holding up pretty fine so far, but the safety bars that came with it where essentially useless. I believe they were stainless steel but hollow, so as soon as a mild weight was dropped on them (maybe up to 60kg) from a height of 50cm, one of them bent in a bit. They still manage to hold at least 100kg when, for instance, I fail a squat rep and lower it down onto the safeties at a controlled rate, but I don't trust them much past that. So basically, I think the best option would be to find somewhere that I can buy stainless steel bars that aren't hollow, or have them custom fabricated. I tried contacting one metal manufacturer locally who apparently couldn't help me, have also tried searching but most metal manufacturers seem to be predominantly for large scale custom orders which would cost a heap.
So my question is, does anyone know of anywhere that basically sells different sizes of steel, or anywhere that could shape steel to my needs that isn't going to cost as much as the rack itself, which was roughly $400. Apologies for the lack of knowledge regarding steel shaping / manufacturing, it definitely isn't my area of expertise.
So I recently set up a home gym with a budget cage. The cage is holding up pretty fine so far, but the safety bars that came with it where essentially useless. I believe they were stainless steel but hollow, so as soon as a mild weight was dropped on them (maybe up to 60kg) from a height of 50cm, one of them bent in a bit. They still manage to hold at least 100kg when, for instance, I fail a squat rep and lower it down onto the safeties at a controlled rate, but I don't trust them much past that. So basically, I think the best option would be to find somewhere that I can buy stainless steel bars that aren't hollow, or have them custom fabricated. I tried contacting one metal manufacturer locally who apparently couldn't help me, have also tried searching but most metal manufacturers seem to be predominantly for large scale custom orders which would cost a heap.
So my question is, does anyone know of anywhere that basically sells different sizes of steel, or anywhere that could shape steel to my needs that isn't going to cost as much as the rack itself, which was roughly $400. Apologies for the lack of knowledge regarding steel shaping / manufacturing, it definitely isn't my area of expertise.