If I had iron plates and cared that much, I would fix them instead of just documenting the error. Adding weight is very easy. For example you could glue a bit of iron to it, or drill and tap a hole to fit a bolt. Removing weight just requires a drill. Beware however that no matter what you do, you will still have an error. Most people simply do not have access to good scales. I have calibrated training bumper plates that are guaranteed to be between -0 and +10 gram of stated weight. So my plates are actually my reference if I want to measure something.
So if you had an iron plate that weighed about 2.5 LBS light, instead adding a 2.5 LBS plate to your barbell to accommodate for the discrepancy, you would go out and buy large drill bits, drill holes all over your plates (lots of them), buy a tap and die, to thread each holes, and then put bolts in all your plates?
@@DesignBuildLift not saying what others should do. For me I already have a drill, dunno about anyone else. I for sure would not be using a plate that was that far off. I checked Rogue and they state max 3% for their iron plates. Which still seems way high, so I think you should either label them as in the video or simply fix them.
I agree that 3% is high. Strength Co (I think) is 2%. All 8 my vintage Inteks are ridiculously overweight. Only two plates are underweight (no name used plates). All my VTX are within 2%. Cheers! 🍻
Good idea on the spreadsheet calculator. Hopefully this takes off for you 👏
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If I had iron plates and cared that much, I would fix them instead of just documenting the error. Adding weight is very easy. For example you could glue a bit of iron to it, or drill and tap a hole to fit a bolt. Removing weight just requires a drill. Beware however that no matter what you do, you will still have an error. Most people simply do not have access to good scales.
I have calibrated training bumper plates that are guaranteed to be between -0 and +10 gram of stated weight. So my plates are actually my reference if I want to measure something.
So if you had an iron plate that weighed about 2.5 LBS light, instead adding a 2.5 LBS plate to your barbell to accommodate for the discrepancy, you would go out and buy large drill bits, drill holes all over your plates (lots of them), buy a tap and die, to thread each holes, and then put bolts in all your plates?
@@DesignBuildLift not saying what others should do. For me I already have a drill, dunno about anyone else. I for sure would not be using a plate that was that far off. I checked Rogue and they state max 3% for their iron plates. Which still seems way high, so I think you should either label them as in the video or simply fix them.
I agree that 3% is high. Strength Co (I think) is 2%. All 8 my vintage Inteks are ridiculously overweight. Only two plates are underweight (no name used plates). All my VTX are within 2%. Cheers! 🍻