I was a little doubtful when I first bought this because I lift in a temperature and humidity controlled basement, so rust isn't really a problem. That said, I had noticed that the knurling on my dumbbells was losing all its shine, so I took a flyer on this. Let me tell you, I was extremely freaked out by the amount of skin dust that came out of that knurling, and now they're shiny and good as new. 10/10, extremely gross experience.

This used to be my main rack when my gym was smaller, as I added more space, this turned into a rack attachment center. It currently has foot rests, dual ancore pros, a landline attachment. The uprights are 81" tall, the same height as my basement, so I couldn't mount the pull-up bar high. I ended up putting the diagonal bars low so that I can give the Ancore system a new angle to pull from, and mounted additional wall mounts on sideways from the top of the rack so I can cover them in hooks for small equipment pieces. Overall, I have no criticisms of this piece, it served me well as a rack and now as whatever it is

This is the first rack I bought. If I were buying again, I would likely make a few different choices, but this is a really solid piece of equipment, and is reasonably inexpensive for what it is. The things I would change: 1. It's 2x3, if I were buying today I would get 3x3 2. It's a half rack, which I thought was a space saving thing, but the reality is that a half rack with spotter arms attached takes functionally as much space as a full rack. That said, this is my daily driver and had held up GREAT since I got it. No complaints whatsoever.

This machine is absolutely at the top of my "in no world do I NEED this, but I like it" list. I could, of course, do lat raises, rear delt raises and front raises with dumbbells (or cables, or resistance bands, or probably a million other ways), but when I used a commercial gym I always enjoyed the dedicated machines, and this brings a little bit of dedicated machine into my home gym setup, and that is good for my soul. Assembly was quick and easy. I have it mounted on a dedicated upright alongside the BOS seal row pad. If I didn't have a dedicated upright for this I would probably never use it because it's heavy and unwieldy and annoying to move. I like that I can just leave it loaded at approximately the correct weight and use it with no delays. I set mine at the correct height for doing chest-supported rear delt rows, and rather than move the machine, I just change my stance to get to the correct height. One note: I mounted it on a Titalt T-3 upright here, which is a 2x3 rack. I 3d printed a couple of shims since this was built for a 3x3 rack.

Especially given the price point ($125 at time of writing) this is a phenomenal piece of equipment. Ever since I hurt my shoulder I have swapped front squats for belt squats so this gets a fair amount of use. On the negative side, it takes a couple of minutes to set up (two things to connect to the rack, got to run a cable through the mechanism, and the two foot plates are fiddly to get seated), but on the positive side, once set up I find it to be a really nice belt squat movement. It comes with foot plates at a 10 degree angle, which serve a dual purple, they keep the mechanism in place on the floor because you're standing on them, and make the movement more quad dominated. Would a dedicated belt squat machine be better? Almost certainly yes, but at the price point, and as something that I can store on my wall, I really like this piece of equipment.

Gets the job done. It was cheap off Amazon, well made, I'm not going to break this in a million years. It's comparable in depth to a Marcy LA hub (much deeper than, say, a York milled hub, which makes it easier). I'm using it to progressively work towards Marcy hub lifts.

I bought a rusty set of these on the cheap, wasn't really expecting too much from them, but I have been bitten by the vintage iron bug and when I see plates that are in the Iron Guide out in the wild, I tend to want to get them. What I will say is that after I cleaned these up (oxalic acid bath and a lot of scrubbing, nothing super fancy), and added ivory colored paint to the lettering, these are one of the most nicely cast plates I have. The lettering and detail is phenomenal. They do have one weird feature. The hub protrudes more than the rim, so there are gaps between them when they're sitting on a bar. This is a mixed bag. It irks me, but also it makes it super easy to grab them.

I got this off Amazon as a replacement for my first bench -- an even cheaper Amazon one. I got it because it has a hyperextension pad, and it worked fine for that. However, the thing I was not expecting was that this is *not an incline bench*. Just look at the picture, there are three adjustment hooks and they all move the bench in the decline position. It's a decline-but-not-incline bench. I kept it around for quite a while as a back extension (before saving space with the Ironmaster hyperextension bench attachment), but it has gone out to Facebook marketplace.