Not every person has the opportunity to attend gyms, and dumbbells, kettlebells and factory-made barbells, which are sold in sports shops, are expensive - again, not everyone can afford it.
Therefore, if you want to keep yourself in good physical shape and at the same time save on the purchase of sports equipment - you can make a simple home-made bar from improvised materials. For example, from old brake drums of a car.
The main stages of work
To assemble a homemade rod for the house, you need 4 brake drums, which need to be cleaned from rust and dirt. You can do this either with a grinder with a brush for metal, or in a cleaner way - in an electrochemical bath, for the preparation of which you will need a container with alkaline solutions, a piece of stainless steel, as well as a power source.
As a neck for the rod, we will use a steel pipe with a length of about 100-110 mm, which it also needs to be cleaned from rust. Neck diameter - at your discretion (you can use an inch or a smaller diameter). The main thing is that the bar is convenient to raise.
Next, we cut out two discs from sheet metal with a thickness of 3 mm, in which we drill four holes. The resulting circles are welded along the edges of the pipe. Using long furniture bolts, we fix two brake drums on each side of the neck.
After this, we knead the cement-sand mortar and fill it inside the drums (if possible, it is better to use lead - it will be harder). Then it remains only to paint the rod and attach to the "pancakes" a piece of the timing belt. You can see the detailed process for manufacturing the bar in this video.
