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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Royalty on January 30, 2016, 09:19:49 AM
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A little rusty, but it looks like it was built to last. I'd like to see Funk51 paint the frame gold.
Guy on craigslist wants $80 for it
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I love the heavy duty thick steel beams holding it together.
The actual bench looks narrow enough to do proper flys as well.
The gym I just joined has a few pcs of old school equipment like this with new paint.
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Our gym has just replaced most of the dumbel benches with wide backed models, total shit... Why anyone would design them like that is beyond me.
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Fuck I bet the weight capacity is measured in tons
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A little rusty, but it looks like it was built to last. I'd like to see Funk51 paint the frame gold.
Guy on craigslist wants $80 for it
nice bench a little clean up and you have a nice piece...definitely worth 80 bucks .
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Fuck I bet the weight capacity is measured in tons
this is how ed jubinville used to test his equipment...who else had an elephant heading up quality control.
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The rack is too narrow. No good for loading and unloading weight.
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The rack is too narrow. No good for loading and unloading weight.
Was thinking the same thing....never liked that positioning. The arms were too close to where I'd put my hands.
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(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=603905.0;attach=668326;image)
Nice gold plates.
(no homo)
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Worse comes to worst, and it feels too narrow, find a angle grinder or portable bandsaw, and cut the uprights off. For $80, it would still make a great rack bench even if it needs to get modified.
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Worse comes to worst, and it feels too narrow, find a angle grinder or portable bandsaw, and cut the uprights off. For $80, it would still make a great rack bench even if it needs to get modified.
Good point, the bench is solid.
But it looks like the uprights can just be taken out.
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I noticed that Arnold often benched pressed on benches that had the narrow uprights
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That bench looks like a piece of shit.
I would buy this one instead.
(http://www.forzastrength.com/cats/3.jpg)
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Every bench used to have narrow uprights. That way you didn't have to worry about your hands slipping out and being right in line with the catchers when it was time to re rack the weight. You can also see exactly where the catchers are with narrow uprights rather than having to look left and right and fuck about when you're holding 300 lbs and benching alone.
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this is how ed jubinville used to test his equipment...who else had an elephant heading up quality control.
I didn't.
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That bench looks like a piece of shit.
I would buy this one instead.
Gimmick trash, here is some real training
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No worth a penny over $79.99...
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Hell no. That's someone's garage project for sure. You want to trust your life to his welds on those pins? Doesn't look like he sent them through both walls of the upright, so who knows if he even sent it through to bang into the the back wall of the upright. No thanks.
Brutal hoarding. Epic electrical cord draped out a window. Tell your hillbilly 'friend' to pop open those tins of oil and get 'em on to that bone dry deck already.
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A little rusty, but it looks like it was built to last. I'd like to see Funk51 paint the frame gold.
Guy on craigslist wants $80 for it
When I had a small gym, I had an older style heavy duty olympic style bench press. Pretty cool
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That bench looks like a piece of shit.
I would buy this one instead.
(http://www.forzastrength.com/cats/3.jpg)
Great looking bench, going to copy that design with the same size box section when I move house and set up my home gym, just need to find a woman or a fag who can stitch and upholser the pad bit
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Johnny Falcon has a bench press on his porch he's not using and you're going to buy it?
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how much would you pay to be let loose in there and get to keep all you can carry in one trip ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???.. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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how much would you pay to be let loose in there and get to keep all you can carry in one trip ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???.. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
lol, I'd hate when moving day came around for that
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how much would you pay to be let loose in there and get to keep all you can carry in one trip ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???.. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
I'm not sure I could carry them all, but I want all the Intek DB pairs from 130 and up.
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first gold's gym bench... :o :o :o :o
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He should be paying you $80 bucks for taking his junk out of his house saving him a trip to the junk yard. The piece looks solid but like stated before the uprights are narrow. Not a deal killer. You just have to adapt when loading the bar by pushing on the opposite side of the bar. Some fresh paint and you will have a strong bench.
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how much would you pay to be let loose in there and get to keep all you can carry in one trip ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???.. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Id fill my truck with all of those globes and circus bells 8)
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He should be paying you $80 bucks for taking his junk out of his house saving him a trip to the junk yard. The piece looks solid but like stated before the uprights are narrow. Not a deal killer. You just have to adapt when loading the bar by pushing on the opposite side of the bar. Some fresh paint and you will have a strong bench.
i pretty much always had used the close upright benches safer reracking if you don't use too much and get out of control........ ::) ::) ::) ::)than you might lose as finger or two...
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Gimmick trash, here is some real training
I think he's starting with 505
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Id fill my truck with all of those globes and circus bells 8)
power, don't get started on who coined the phrase circus dumbell.. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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power, don't get started on who coined the phrase circus dumbell.. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
and on that note this is what the iron graveyard looks like arranged....actually the collection of ricard sorin of sorinex equipment co...
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and on that note this is what the iron graveyard looks like arranged....actually the collection of ricard sorin of sorinex equipment co...
I've never in my life seen a 200# plate.
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No worth a penny over $79.99...
The guy that is selling the bench just reduced the price to $50
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how much would you pay to be let loose in there and get to keep all you can carry in one trip ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???.. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Fiddy! :D
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The guy that is selling the bench just reduced the price to $50
Only if you want to weld a strut under the pins. Then you'll be a day in a mask with a grinder taking the whole thing back to metal, priming and painting for a couple hours per day over the next 3-4 days for a cost of $100+ in materials (unless you're happy to leave it rusty). Plus the cost of whatever your time is worth.
You're buying a project. The difference between the purchase cost and free isn't worth haggling over. The question is whether you want this project enough to justify its costs. You'd get a brand new Chinese bench that will incline and decline for less than what the paint is going to cost. On the other hand, it's not made in China and maybe you really dig it - if for no other reason than it harkens to a time when a guy could knock up something in his garage for less than retail price - but you will have to earn it.
Flip it and have a good look at the underside. If you can bang a hammer through it, you don't want it.
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i pretty much always had used the close upright benches safer reracking if you don't use too much and get out of control........ ::) ::) ::) ::)than you might lose as finger or two...
I use a pair of squat stands behind my bench can space them to suit any Bar. Close uprights can be a pain when doing close grip benches when racking the bar.
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I think he's starting with 505
Yes indeed. This is a photo of Bertil using 505
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I've never in my life seen a 200# plate.
Looks like each 200LB plate has it's own upright storage rack