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In this workshop I will tell you how I made homemade cement dumbbells for home sports. At the cost of manufacturing, this will be several times cheaper than purchased dumbbells.
How to make dumbbells yourself

Necessary materials


To make two dumbbells, I needed:
  • Two 3/4 steel tubes about 50 cm long with threads on both sides.
  • Four regular 3/4 tees.
  • One rubber step cuff (adapter) and one clamp on the diameter of the sides of the cuffs.
  • River sand cement.
  • A bit of silicone grease for rubber processing.

How to make dumbbells yourself

Dumbbell Making


In fact, the idea is very simple:
  • On each end of the pipe I screwed a tee.
  • To make the first part of the dumbbell, I built a kind of tripod so that the handle of the future dumbbell could be suspended.
  • I installed a rubber cuff on a substrate from a piece of foam so that the handle was located in the center, but did not lean on the foam substrate.

How to make dumbbells yourself

How to make dumbbells yourself

Then I mixed a cement mortar: 1.5 parts of fine river sand sifted through a sieve and 1 part cement, which gently filled the cuff with a pipe placed in it with a tee at the end. By the way, I lubricated the rubber “form” from the inside with silicone grease so that the cement did not stick to it much, since I planned to use it again. I left the cast blank for a day to set the solution. A day later, when the solution solidified well, I removed the workpiece from the tripod and cut the cuff to remove it from the cement.

Making the second half of the weighting compound


How to make dumbbells yourself

How to make dumbbells yourself

I missed the edges of the cut cuff with instant glue and connected them. After the glue seized, put on the ends of the cuff clamps so that it does not creep when pouring cement. Since the previous tripod will not withstand the weight of the dumbbell, for the pouring of the second part I hung it between two cuttings laid on cinder blocks. Then he repeated the process: he set the restored mold for the weighting agent on the foam substrate in height so that the tee did not reach about 1 cm to the base, knead the solution and carefully fill the cuff. After 24 hours, he removed the rubber cuff, and one dumbbell was completely ready.
How to make dumbbells yourself

How to make dumbbells yourself

In the following days, he made the second dumbbell in the same way.
How to make dumbbells yourself

How to make dumbbells yourself

When the dumbbells were ready, the idea occurred to me that if I had 4 cuffs, they could not have been removed - we would get dumbbells with a rubberized weighting compound. Therefore, if you decide to repeat, consider my experience.
How to make dumbbells yourself

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Comments (2)
  1. Sergey K
    #1 Sergey K Visitors November 5, 2018 01:57
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    I did such dumbbells somehow, but I didn’t leave bare cement - I cut cylinders out of the pipe, welded black to them inside the sleeve through spacers from the wire (later the handles from 3/4 of the tube are screwed into the sleeve) Well, I poured them with cement, and then painted. It turned out very good, you can even drop it. But he did not count the weight of concrete well and dumbbells turned out to be too light from the small diameter.

    In our reality, you can use any container - plastic bottles or cans, cans, etc. Weight should be calculated based on the fact that a liter of concrete weighs 2-2.5 kg.
    In order not to use tees, you can simply drill holes at the ends of the pipes and wind the steel wire (not tightly!) Which will be used as reinforcement. Do not save on cement, it will be stronger. ;)
  2. Pavel Kalina
    #2 Pavel Kalina Guests April 6, 2019 10:19
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    I bought two dumbbells of 2.5 kg each, covered with plastic. The price of the issue is -270 rubles. The manufacture of a dressing is not worth it for sure!

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