How much do you think it will cost to get custom machined thin stainless steel 10lb olympic plates for my pair of loadable olympic dumbbells? They would be 1/2" thick, the hole is 2" wide like every other olympic plate, the outer diameter is 9-7/8", and they would be basic flat discs like the picture shown above.
Yes
>>2871630>google it for mesendcutsendprobably cheaper than you think but if you have to ask...
hardly anything, find any laser/water cutting place that can do 1/2in and just give them ID/OD and tell them tolerances dont matter
>>2871630Depending on how many you want, that's $150-300 each in just material. Unironically it would probably be cheaper to get them made out of some BS steel and have them TiN coated.
>>2871630depends if you want customized text or not
>>2871630Why do you want them to be machined though? Why not buy a bag of cement and make redneck cement dumbbells?
A36 hot roll is going to be the only material even remotely affordable for this
>>2871630If these olympic plates already exist, why not get some of those?
>>2871630Really no benefit to doing this because the weights will be slick. Just cerakote normal weights.
>>2871630Just do it yourself, this is high school kid tier machining class stuff turn an OD, cdrill with tail stock Turn a chamfer
>>2871993>turn an ODPlease go and find 10" Stainless bar stock to turn this and when you do, look at the price. No sane person is going to turn this from bar stock. You're going to get 1/2" stainless plate and cut out the shape you need.
>>2871630It would be cheaper to buy all new equipment from Rogue Fitness.
>>2871630Why stainless?
>>2872533To match the dishwasher and refrigerator.
>>2872098Yeah dumbass a lathe is really good at turning unevenly rough cut piece of metal into circles You’re 600 years behind in technology dumbfuck
>>28716301.1 kg, 2.5 lb… not even standard weights with whole numbers.They were undoubtedly originally washers for large bolts for a bridge project that got cancelled.
>>2872533>Why stainless?This. Seems like a massive waste.
>>2873024holy shit dude wtf lmfao
>>2873125>holy shit dude wtf lmfaois this some kind of cryptic message im not zoomer enough to understand?
>>28730912.5 lb plates are normal..
This is /diy/, not google it for me.I've found 8x8 1/2 plate for 40 bucks and a 2 inch carbide tipped hole saw for 10 bucks. I've got a drill and some cutting fluid, so I didn't include that in the price. And the weight would come out square and won't around, so it'd be even better.Put a hole in a corner and get some big bolts and you can move them around even easier
