The stainless bar has a low surface friction. The bars could stay stable, no matter how the temperature changes, no matter you place them indoor or outdoor, as they’re UV resistant. Chlorine ion is the most corrosive hazard to the metals, unless you drop the Stainless Steel Barbell into the s...
Cleaning the Stainless Steel Barbell, includes two sections: Shaft: NEVER use iron brush or other metal scrubs, or abrasive powders or brass cleaners, basic the finger print would be removed by alcohol and organic solvent, and then wash them off by warm water, soft cloth or mild detergent wou...
Firstly, we might have a question: Will a stainless steel barbell rust? Now we know the answer is yes, but it’s still easy to do the maintenance. And the only thing is to keep the surface dry and clean. After cleaning the barbell, we would need to wipe the surface especially the knurling by using mi...
Chrome Vs Stainless Steel Barbell Here we would discuss hard chrome vs stainless steel barbell : 1. Price: no doubt Chrome Barbell is cheaper than Stainless Steel Olympic Barbell; 2. Durability: hard chrome on barbell shaft will wear off one day, stainless steel bar won’t; 3. PSI and whip, depends o...
Regarding the difference between cerakote vs stainless steel barbell, will discuss in several aspects below: 1) Price: cerakoate or ceramic coated barbell is cheaper than stainless steel; 2) Knurling: Stainless steel Olympic bar is awesome in knurling, it’s bare bar without coating, so talking about...
The principle a stainless steel barbell being stainless, is that when the stainless steel is exposed to the air, the surface will generate a very thin chromium oxide layer, which isolates the steel from air. So it’s not a easy thing to make a stainless steel barbell rust, but there is also a...
The bar is coated with more cerakote than what you can see, part of the bar cerakoted is hidden in the sleeve, in touch with bushing fixed on the opening of the barbell sleeve, no matter bearing or bushing structure, this bushing is a must, and it’s pretty important, if the outer diameter is too big...
First, let’s discuss the advantage of cerakote coating, such as anti-corrosion, anti-friction, and perfect adhesion to the bar. And the most important issue is anti-driction. Take some common coatings for example: Common electro coating, basically we call that decorative chrome; Black zinc co...
Maintenance of barbell usually includes two aspects: Lubrication Cleaning Lubrication: No matter barbell with cerakote or other coating, or even bare steel barbell, they need to be lubricated in regular; the frequency depends on how often you use the barbells. There are two concepts: lubrican...
The cerakote series has over 100 basic colors, and they could mix with each other, so almost any color is available, the color as we know in use is over 6500. Back to the manufacture aspect, the most common colors we’re producing for bars: Red Black Grey Blue Green Orange Gold silver Camoufla...
We’re comparing the high performance bar, so the chrome bar here is hard chrome barbell, instead of decorative chrome bar. The differences between the two bars: Knurling depends on the thickness of the coating: Cerakote: 1-2 mils Hard chrome: 0.005-0.01 mils So you see hard chrome is much thi...
Cerakote works as a kind of thin film, a mixture coating of ceramic polymer. And the advantage is to improve the adhesion, hardness, anti-rust, impact resistance, etc. Generally, people use the cerakote widely on guns, especially pistol. You only need a spray gun, and borrow your wife’s micro...
