Thread: Olympic bars

were did you get it from? the company will usally list those types of things on the web page or the paper the comes with the bar. Texas power bars can hold 1500lbs (or more i believe). A quality bar will be able to hold a lot more weight without bending then a shitty one.

Depends on the material the company uses.
I have seen Olympic bars bent with only 600lbs.........cheep shit.

Eleiko Quality Policy

”If any bar fails, to pass these strict requirements,
it will be discarded and scrapped”

Every Eleikos bar manufactured undergoes stringent quality control procedure.

Each bar is placed in a vice and bent with an hydraulic jack subjecting to a pressure of 1000 kg.
No bar will ever bent that much in weightlifting!
The bar must spring back to an exact straigthness,
with a maximum of deviation of no more than 0.5 mm.

The same procedure is repeated on the sleeves, (where the weights are normally loaded), but now the pressure is increased to 2500 kg. The end of the bar must also spring back to an exact straightness; this time with a maximum of deviation of no more than 0,2 mm. It goes without saying that the discs conform to extremely low wight tolerance, in order to guarantee the weight specified.




Eleiko Sport holds the right to change all technical specifications and pictures without prior notice. Copyright © 2001 Eleiko Sport, Sweden. Produced by Neoshi. All rights reserved.

Google search for "olympic bar break" In the first handful of links are a couple .pdf articles created by a company selling bars. I found them a good read, they do educate, but it has a bias to sell/move their product. The gist I think is that a bar that can hold insane amounts of weight would suffer breakage more likely as a result of dropping of the bar, or very active movements with much lesser weight. About 10 years ago in a gym I went to I remember having a preference of which bench i used because the bars on on a couple of them were typically rigid/strong feeling than any of the others.(outwardly they all looked the same) I kinda forgot about that till your post got me thinking.