Climax Metal C-100 Shaft Collar, Zinc Plated Steel, Set Screw Style, One Piece, 1 Bore, 1-1/2 OD, 5/8 Wide, With 5/16-18 Set Screw

Item arrived on time and worked great.

I can’t fault the seller that these collars didn’t fit on all my 1-inch bars. The specs are posted. However, it seems not all 1-inch bars are exactly 1-inch in diameter after all. I used these Climax collars on an old EZ-curl bar with threads/collars worn so badly they no longer tighten down completely. Also, one of the plate stops had come loose over the years. I used one on each side to make the weight-plate placement equal, and another one on each side to keep the screw-collars from backing out — four in all, and saved me the cost of buying an expensive new EZ-curl bar. Although fitting easily on that bar and another older threaded type bar, they were too tight on my newer, threaded dumbbell bars and on my older slide-collar type bars. The original collars for the latter measured about 1.050”. Obviously, these Climax collars weren’t designed for this particular 1-inch application in the first place. They also didn’t fit over the 1-inch round rolled-steel bar stock I’d used on my old homemade cable lat low-row machine built 28 years ago. I measured these bars with precision dial calipers (0.001” accurate) and discovered that they are not perfectly round, hence not precisely 1-inch in diameter. Varying by plus or minus 20 thou, depending on the point of measurement. This also proved to be the case with the older slip-on collar type barbell and dumbbell bars. I decided to try drilling them [collars] out to 1/32” over with an electric drill, my drill press being broken, but the attempt failed. Bad idea! A better one was to use a high-speed rotary grinder and grinding stone. This took a few minutes for each collar but worked well enough and didn’t really cost me anything except a little time. Despite that minor hassle, these are excellent quality collars. I’m now using them on several threaded bars to prevent the damned screw-collars from coming loose all the time. Although they’re not going to work on every so-called 1-inch bar, for me they turned out to be a decent deal considering there’s not much more than high-priced options of dubious quality [plastic] out there these days. They require a 5/32”, or 4mm Allen key for the set screw.

Fitted perfectly with strength to match.

I bought this to use as a replacement for a squirrel baffle. It is not suitable for that purpose. I do not know what its purpose is. Apparently, its good at what it is meant to be used for, but not for being a squirrel baffle. Baffled.

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Worked as intended. Good machining. I also drilled and tapped some smaller set screws with no issues.

exactly as advertised, excellent quality.

While it was exactly what I was looking for and exactly 1 inch, the pipe 1 inch pipe I wanted to slide this collar onto had a light coat of paint and because of the paint the collar didnt easily slide onto the pipe. I had to strip some of the paint off and with a little bit of oil the collar slid right into place.

Picture shows a set screw and the ones I got did not have a set screw. I had to return and order a different part.

Been using this for home gym barbells (10-15lb weight per side) as a more stable substitute for the elastic bands I previously used and have had no issues. The diameter was exactly as described and the collars have held with no loosening after a few dozen weightlifting sessions. Granted I keep the barbell level to the ground pretty much the majority of the time, the collars have not shifted any noticable amount after a fair amount of pressure on them over the past few weeks.