Climber028 Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Inspired by a previous thread and playing around, discovered a super easy and cheap dumbbell a lot of people can probably already make. First, have to find a cheap spin lock handle with the rubber grip instead of knurled grip area You can carefully cut away the rubber handle, and it appears to be common from what I've seen that they are actually threaded through the complete length Any Napalm handle will now slide onto the rod, the one shown here is 2 3/8 which is closest to the actual inch but of course you can use whatever you like Add whatever weights you want, use a wrench to tighten the collars and you now have a rock solid inch trainer for very cheap or free if you already have these things. My dumbbell happens to be a little short, you could also get cheap 1 inch threaded rod and a couple of nuts and make it as long as you like. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroostook Barbell Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Great idea. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho_grip_lift Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 15 hours ago, Climber028 said: Inspired by a previous thread and playing around, discovered a super easy and cheap dumbbell a lot of people can probably already make. First, have to find a cheap spin lock handle with the rubber grip instead of knurled grip area You can carefully cut away the rubber handle, and it appears to be common from what I've seen that they are actually threaded through the complete length Any Napalm handle will now slide onto the rod, the one shown here is 2 3/8 which is closest to the actual inch but of course you can use whatever you like Add whatever weights you want, use a wrench to tighten the collars and you now have a rock solid inch trainer for very cheap or free if you already have these things. My dumbbell happens to be a little short, you could also get cheap 1 inch threaded rod and a couple of nuts and make it as long as you like. Great recommendation, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageWeightsPGH Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 This is excellent! I’ve seen those rubber handled cheap dumbbell spin lock handles at my local dollar store, Dollar General. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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