Every time we try to make something new, there is a point when it feels like there’s just no way it can work. Every design idea fails the test on some front. It’s not going lock in that angle or the bolt can’t pass through. There are of reasons to not build it or even spend time trying to design it or make it. Plenty of no’s.
The dread and fear is especially real when you are staring at a pile of cut pipes, rods and bolts lying on the machining room floor. They cost real money. Stainless steel isn’t cheap. Especially thick seamless pipes. And it took effort from the welders, machinists to listen to my whacky ideas and understand what it needs to be.
Will the angles make sense?
Will it come together and actually work?
Does anyone really even need this?
The pile of parts you are looking at is culmination of us playing around with different camber angles to do pull ups.
Depending on mobility, how one’s shoulder is built among other constraints, a person could prefer two bars aligned between 90 degrees or 150 degrees or in between the two. The choices right now are a binary 180 or parallel.
It should be easier to tailor down the angle for personal preference and comfort. And i am really hoping that the pile of parts lying on that dusty floor can make that happen after a few holes are drilled, grooves are milled and welds are laid down. Until the first pull up is done, my conviction in a pile of metal is all that exists.
