Vintage Weights & Home Gym Advice Husband, Father, Amateur Historian
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I LOVE vintage weights. I don't know everything about them, but I want to learn. I film reviews, tutorials, and projects as a learning experience. Hopefully, you can learn from my adventures and mistakes, which is why I include them in the videos. If you ever want to share some of your vintage weights, please send me an email or contact me on Instagram.
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Thank you for making this video. I recently scored a set of pre-USA stamped 60 pounders for $240, $2 a pound. Already a fair price according to you and other online sources. I now know that they were made sometime between the 60s and 80s. Where I really lucked out was the person I bought them from is local to me. I live in southwest Arizona, so Yorks are pretty rare around here.
It’s specific for York with this dumbbell. However, York applied the term Aristocrat to various versions of weights and barbells. The most popular is the Aristocrat barbell with spinning chrome sleeve.
@@vintageweightspgh Never liked the spinning sleeve. I always tried to tighten whatever lame locking mechanism was available tight enough so they wouldn't!
Amazing! Want to visit sometime soon. We had a full set of York round heads when I was in high school in the 80's. I'm going to start collecting a set.
Evaporust will remove the black color from the heat tempered black springs, which is undesirable to gripper collectors. 3inONE left the color alone and removed the rust. Thanks for watching!
My dad had a bunch of the non-dimpled plates in our garage when I was growing up, mostly 10s but some 5s and a pair of 2.5s including a pair of 10s and a pair of 5s in the pro series. All black. He gave them to me, and after I washed the rust off they were good to go for dumbbells and an EZ-bar. They were the first items I got for my home gym, and I still use them for dumbbells and my EZ bar.
They don’t come up that often. So I really don’t know other than the off chance one surfaces for sale on the used market. The Facebook group Vintage Weightlifting Exchange is a great spot but even on there, I don’t see these listed for sale/trade.
I haven’t produced anything about them, because I don’t have any. Haha. To the best of my knowledge, not much is actually known about the history of the company. However, the rarity of finding Atlas deep dish along with the beautiful design and original paint color (a sort of sea mist, greenish blueish color), they’ve become very sought after. In my rating system, I’d comfortably call them Extremely Collectable. More so than York deep dish, but not quite to the level of Jacksons or Gibsons.
1980s York Olympic split sleeve barbells are probably the most common of all vintage York barbells. Still collectable, but in my rating system, I’d rate them Moderately Collectable. So maybe a little more valuable than a generic barbell but not nearly as valuable as a high end modern barbell or more rare vintage bar.
For sure. They’re collectable. The tough part is that selling vintage weights on a local market is typically very difficult. Success is usually found on wider online markets like eBay or within Facebook groups such as Vintage Weightlifting Exchange.
I love real iron weight ,you will get the best body useing iron weight ,I hate rubber weight ,in the gym bull shit ,lode crop in some gym ,keep going king ❤🇬🇧London ,in the future people will be beging for those weight .🏋♂️
This device is way better than those belt squat set ups with the arm attached to the power rack. The belt squat machines where the cable travels straight down are better than this device but they also costs $3K-$7K. Biomechanically, you can build some huge quads with this device as it simulates a front squat. Nice tool to have!!!!!
About 2,000 pounds of weight plates including Olympic 2” and standard 1”. I fluctuate a bit depending on what I find or what I have to review. This is probably capacity. I like to lift everything in the gym.
PGH stands for Pittsburgh. I love my city. I sold a batch of banners about two years ago. I’ll probably do another batch this year. They were mini-banners (1x2’) for $12 including shipping.
The grease can really build up. So be 100% sure and wipe down the inner portion. Maybe more numbers exist. If everything else matches, than I’d guess that it’s a 1980s York split sleeve Olympic barbell.
