Titan Fitness Axle Barbell, Fat Grip Strength Training, Olympic Bar, Powder-Coated Steel

The Titan Fitness 84" Axle Bar is a fantastic value for a bargain, no frills fat bar for the home setup or possibly a small commercial gym. The bar arrived quickly (3 days, Prime), and despite the packaging being heavily damaged the bar arrived with only minor scuffs in the finish.The bar I received had the following measured specifications:Length: 84" (just a bit under really, maybe 83.75")Sleeve Loading Area: 15.5" on each side, evenBetween Collars: 52"Collar Thickness: 0.5"Diameter: 1.9"Weight: 25.5 pounds*Yes, the bar is advertised as 30 pounds, but despite multiple measurements I kept coming up with 25.4-25.6 pounds on my scale. Given other dumbbells and plates I've weighed I'm pretty sure that 25.5 is what my bar weighs.The bar itself seems to be made out of schedule 80 steel pipe, with ~1/4" thick walls. The bar is straight, the collars are welded on evenly and perpendicular to the bar (so plates load evenly). All of my cast Weider International Olympic plates fit with just a small amount of play (maybe 1/8").The finish on the bar is NOT what I would call "powder coat" unless spray paint now counts as powder coating. There was one small chip on the bar that has rust started, but that is easily solved with touch up paint. The collars appear to have taken the brunt of the shipping damage with some minor paint chips, but nothing that I wouldn't end up doing to the bar in-use anyway.UPDATE: After just a few weeks of use I've found that the "powder coating" (it's paint) comes off from the sleeves pretty easily when loading Olympic plates. Both sleeves are now deeply scratched down to what appears to be the bare iron. I won't subtract a star for this just because the sleeves probably shouldn't have been painted in the first place.The bar has no knurling of any kind, nor does it have any placement marks (knurl rings) so you will need to figure out how to mark the bar for even hand placement. In my case, I'm going to mask off the 32" and 36" positions with some painters tape and hit the bar with a touch of auto primer to give me a subtle, but permanent indicator for grip. I suppose you could do the same thing with athletic or hockey tape.The bar has a 0.5" hole drilled at each end of the bar about 1" from the edge. This allows for easy use of carabiners to attach chains or landmine grip attachments without needing a chain collar.Overall, I think this bar is a great value for the price. You'd be hard-pressed to buy a piece of equivalent pipe from a hardware store and try to roll-your-own fat bar for much less than this. Some small improvement in the shipping materials would help prevent cosmetic damage, but other than that and possibly adding some sort of grip position indicator marks this bar is perfect.

Perfect Axle! No knurling(like axle should be) Fit all my drop plates and collars were not loose. Minor paint damage (but that was 100% delivery guy dropping it)

Strong and well built.

I think I did a review on this for my YouTube page Ironhall Gym. I’ve had this for a few years now. Solid, good bar.

Mine only gets used by me, so it doesn't see much abuse, but its very hard to get used to lifting an axle with anything other than doing it. This is what you need.

I love the size. This bar just feels badass to workout with! The wide grip adds a great dynamic to my bench & forearm workouts. The extended sleeve lets me load up weight plus my bent over row attachment for an awesome landmine workout. At almost 30 lbs, the bar alone makes for great standing row/overhead press shoulders & arms sets. Plus there are carabiner holes on both ends to hang chains for an extra challenging squat session. This is a great bar for every home gym!

Get something better. The paint job is from a rattle can. No line markings. Weight is off by 1.8 lb.

Higher than average quality bar. I'm used to the Rogue axle bars,so I was quite surprised. I just bought this as a spare bar for training Strongman. Axle bars are generally unmarked, but you can easily chalk it up if you're not training for the axle specifically. It's not very grippy, but that's kind of the point of the axle, so I'm happy with the coating.Bar is too thick for *some * Olympic plates. It works fine with anything 15 lbs or higher, so this could just be my plates and the cold.