Since one of my "training-bros" (technical term) recently made his own ones, I was prompted to re-action. This time, I pulled out all the stops and went for threaded alumnium 3/4" tubing, t-pieces and 90 degree bends. The cost came out as ±€70, so it is a bit on the steep side; it's metal so I am expecting them to last long enough, but we'll see. The plastic tubing I got to cover the base support of the parallettes [to protect my apartment floor] was about €18 for 4m, so that's a fair chunk of the cost right there.
If the threading holds out, I might make more things, like a free standing chin-up frame.
Materials list:
- 4 x 50cm 3/4" threaded-end pipes
- 2 x 1m 3/4" threaded-end pipes
- 4 x t-pieces 3/4"
- 4 x 90° bends
- 4m of 1" silicone tubing
- Teflon tape
- (Hacksaw, box-cutter knife and cutting block)
- Cut four of the 50cm pipes in half
- Teflon tape is wrapped round all of the threaded ends to give a snug fit (not sure if it is actually necessary, but my habits of working with leak-free tubing systems are hard to kick).
- Fit the other 50cm pipes to the middle holes of the t-pieces
- Fit the 25cm lengths to other two branches of the t-pieces
- Fit the bends to the other end of the 50cm pipes
- Fit the 1 m pipes between two of the elbow bends
- Screw everything as tightly as possible, while still having the bases of the legs perpendicular to the 1m bar
- Take 1" 4m tubing and cut into four 60cm lengths, eight 20 cm lengths
- Cut down the length of the tubings
- Fit the short tubings around the supports of the parallettes
- Fit the long tubings over the whole length of the bases
- Give them a go!
Step 1 - cutting the 50cm pipe
Steps 3-5 - End result
Step 6 - Assembled parallette
Step 10 (a)
Step 10 (a)
Step 10 (a)
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