FAQ’s
What is the ordering process?
Please contact me by email or social media. Dumbbells are made to order at this time. After the dumbbell is paid for the order will go in to the foundry. It takes 6-10 weeks to have the dumbbell made. After the dumbbell is made it will be put on a pallet and a shipping rate will be billed to the customer. After the freight shipping is paid the dumbbell will be sent to the customer.
The Inch training handle, blobs, anvils and t shirts are shipped through ups or usps the same week the order is put in.
Dumbbells are shipped out from the foundry from Jacksboro, TN. Dumbbells can be picked up from the foundry to waive any shipping cost. Dumbbells are shipped by a freight shipping company on a pallet. Dumbbells are typically shipped to the customers closest service center for pickup to waive a $100 plus charge for a truck with a lift gate. Below or actual shipping cost from recent dumbbell orders to give you a idea of the cost to ship dumbbells.
$262 – 172 lb,125 lb dumbbells Jacksboro, TN to Indianapolis, IN
$260- 125 lb dumbbell, Jacksboro, TN to Golden, CO
$200 – 172 lb dumbbell, Jacksboro, TN to Philadelphia, PA
$425- (2) 110 lb, (2) 125 lb (2) 138 lb, Jacksboro, TN to St. Paul, MN
$270 110 lb, 125 lb, 138 lb dumbbells, Jacksboro, TN to San Antonio, TX
How do your blobs compare to original blobs?
The texture of SSE castings have a good texture that hold chalk very well. So the biggest difference between original blobs and SSE blobs is the gritty texture. The width and slopes of SSE blobs were replicated after the original width and slope of the original ½ of the 100 lb dumbbell.
What size bolts do I need for the Inch training handle or the Goerner/Apollon barbell?
I suggest getting your standard 1" hole plates first to figure out how tall they stack up when laying on there flat side. If you are trying to make a 100 lb Inch training handle, I would stack up you (5) 10lb plates flat on the ground that you are going to use, measure how tall/thick they are and add 1/2"
minimum and that is how long of a bolt you will need. You only need about 2 full turns on the bolt to lock the plates in tightly to the handle/barbell.
How is the quality of the different castings?
Castings are made my melting cast iron and pouring the molten metal into a sand mold. After the metal solidifies there are seams and gates where the metal enters and leaves the mold. At the seams and gates where the metal enters the mold they are blended smooth by hand with a grinding disc. Due to the nature of grinding these seams by hand they are not always blended the exact same. If these dumbbells made with a block of steel and were turned by a cnc lathe or milled by a cnc mill there would not be any small imperfections that you find with castings. Weight's will vary on these casting by a couple pounds due to variances in the pig iron used to melt and pour into the molds. As time has gone on i have been able to track the average weight of the different casting and label the dumbbells with a more accurate weight from the foundry.
