Home Made Hub Pinch Gadget

[verdigriz]

I have been wanting to get into hub pinching for couple of weeks now but my problem was my plates have low set hubs and they round of at the edges, probably not impossible to lift, but not helping much either. So after abit of thinking I came up with a solution, I sawed a piece of dowl wood about 4 inches long and close to the same width as my olympic weight plate holes and then drilled a hole in one end and placed an iron pin through it. I then placed the plate over the dowl and it sat on the pin...worked great, except i couldnt lift the 20kg plate from the ground you know what they say about assumption. As I get stronger with the lighter plates I will just saw a longer piece of dowl and place the added plate over the first one, anyone else tried something like this?

[verdigriz]

I was just reading through anothers post and it hit me that I may have broken some rules about explaining how to make a tool that may impinge upon a commerical product, if I have done so, my apologies, it wont happen again.

[Number Ten Ox]

Pretty sure this is okay (?wanna?) we have to be able to talk about new grip toys that we have made. Now if you said "Here are the formulator blueprints..."

And I think it's a cool idea.

[TelegraphKey]

This sounds like a great way to get progressive resistance on this. And it sounds original to me.

Fortunately where I work out has a few plates with nice, thick hubs, so I can use the real deals. If I can't do a bigger plate, I use the smaller one, then put some tiny weights on top -- e.g. I use a 35, put either 3-2.5's on it or take some female aerobic bunny dumbells, 3, 5, 6, or 9-lbs each, and put 2 on the 35-plate.

I've actually done up to 47 lbs this way, but 45+ lbs using a 35-plate is MUCH easier than using the actual 45-lb plate. One time, for less than 2 seconds, I actually picked up the 45 plate, but haven't been able to do it since....