How to build a campus board

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Jaspersharpe said:
We used SMA Gold too. It's a right pain in the arse counting out those scoops.
You have reminded me of the intense frustration at loosing count of the number of scoops over and over again after nights of little sleep. Character building stuff. I knew those long, sleepless alpine epics were good training for something.

Nice set up Mono :thumbsup:
 
I just use SMA for build up and nutrition post training. Tastes like shit but mix it with some bitter instead of water and add a raw egg and all is well ;D
 
GCW said:
I just use SMA for build up and nutrition post training. Tastes like shit but mix it with some bitter instead of water and add a raw egg and all is well ;D
Junior must dread the end of a training session.
 
She's 3 and wanders around the house mumbling about power and one armers :shrug:
The other is only 6 months, so will be starting the Program fairly soon. this time I'll have to do things differently....... TWO EGGS!!
 
:eek:ff:

I would thoroughly recommed the Avent milk powder container. 2 chambers hold the powder with a neat swivel top to pour out one dose into pre-prepared water. Dead easy, and no need for nocturnal milk powder scoop counting. 3 or 4 quid really well spent. Had ours 3 years and it's been a godsend.

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End of :eek:ff:
 
How much of a beast are you? Incut are easier, sloping are harder. You can always start off with (slightly) incut then get busy with the sandpaper at a later date.
 
Paul B said:
How much of a beast are you? Incut are easier, sloping are harder. You can always start off with (slightly) incut then get busy with the sandpaper at a later date.

Not much...but like the idea of starting with some incut and sanding back.
 
I followed lagerstafish's instructions and here's what I came up with. They didn't have any 18mm ply offcuts in B&Q but so I had to use 18mm MDF, seems to be OK so far. I've attached a drawing if you want to follow what I did...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/114823/Powerbar%2BBM.zip

With only an 18mm backboard the 4 smaller screws that come with the Beasmaker (1000) are too long, so I used M4x60mm machine screws instead, need to trim the ends off at some point. Wokrs nicely, and you can also rotate the blocks so it locks the PowerBar in place for easy storage/transport.

Here's a video of the frame in action. (It is the right side of the doorframe flexing slightly causing the board to move a bit, not the frame itself).

Powerbar and homemade frame for the Beastmaker 1000

-Ifor
 
I'd probably go for a grade 2/3 at the sides though, which would go seamlessly into the stubble, but maybe stick with a 4 on top. It's not to everybody's taste but its how I roll....
 
If i were you dude, id stick a few holds in that loft hatch, then you can obviously do some moves into/up & down to them from the breastmaker.
 
hoping to build a campus in my garage over summer, i'm going to make the rungs myself as its cheaper (same thickness as the metolius ones, and maybe some slopers) but just wondering which wood i should use? I was thinking pine but unsure if its the best wood for the job. Any suggestions?
 
Ive heard there's a chap called Probes (summit to do with crusher holds) who's been knocking up campus rungs for his mates, he can do them for cheap if you ask nicely.
Otherwise, wood... pine is not the best, go for a hardwood, mahogany (suprisingly cheap to buy), beech, ash something like that, a lot of stuff inc rungs that are out in the shops are made from tulipwood, which is great, slightly harder than pine but is very stringy and hard to work by hand.
Good luck
 
I'm on a super tight budget at the minute and am going to get one of these bad boys to do some home bar work on:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOOR-GYM-PULL-UP-CHIN-UP-BAR-IRON-ABS-EXERCISE-FITNESS-/110855228566?pt=UK_Strength_Training&hash=item19cf7c8c96

My question is, do any of you that have made the Powerbar fingerboard setup (Lagers, iforwms et al.) reckon you could come up with a similar solution for this cheaper bar? At under a tenner, it'd be an absolute steal if I could get a rig going.

Urgently looking to get underway with this so any thoughts appreciated! Cheers.
 
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Monolith,

I've a powerbar thing with a low rent home hade wooden attachment for a beastmaker you can have? It's no great feat of engineering though (made from left overs from when I built my shed.

Turns out my nice turn of the century door frames aren't a solid as I'd like so I'm building a permanent frame in the loft for the board.

Based in Manchester.
 


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