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Default Steel for Olympic Barbell

On Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:47:43 PM UTC-5, Sandarpan Mukherjee wrote:

The bar will be at least 190000 psi tensile strength with 170000 psi yield strength.
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I can not imagine needing that kind of strength for something that a human in going to use. What diameter is the bar? What is the maximum weight that is going to be on the bar? My guess is that an ordinary barbell is made of something like A36.

Dan