CAP A-Frame Dumbbell Weight Rack

Sturdy, 25s to 5s fit perfectly. The ideal piece for my home gym! Assembly time was 20+- minutes. Currently, I’m completely satisfied

This was very quick to put together and feels a lot more sturdy than the plastic rack that came with my initial dumbbell set. I added a couple more weights (10/15) to my 5,8, 12 existing dumbbells. This worked perfectly and the added height is a nice plus. I was a little nervous that this was going to be as flimsy as the one I already had but it feels substantial while still being pretty light unloaded.

Perfect. Exactly what I needed. Assembled with my own small wrench and the provided hex tool.

I bought this rack so that my dumbbells would take up less horizontal space. It has the perfect number of slots for my 5-25lb set of dumbbells. Having a ratchet set made it easier to put together. There were some openings that seemed slightly off, so I had to really crank on my ratchet to force it into the right position. I might've been able to solve this by loosening all of the bolts and then slowly re-tightening them bit by bit, but I didn't feel like going to that effort since I had the right tools for the job. It might be a bit more of a struggle to put together if you don't have your own tools. After building it, it looks great, is solid, and seems to be made of good, sturdy metal. The one part about it that bothers me is how close together the two sides of the cradles are. When you are holding a dumbbell in one hand and try to place the dumbbell into one of the cradles, the metal pieces are too narrow to simply guide it down all the way without pinching your hand under the weight of the dumbbell. So it's often pretty awkward to return dumbbells to their cradle. To fix this, the weight rack would have to be more bulky, though, and surely more expensive, so I'm not too bothered given how inexpensive it was. Anything much heavier than the 25lb dumbbells that I have in the rack might start to be a real problem, but I think it's a great, cheap option for lighter dumbbells that aren't difficult for you to move around.

I read the reviews before purchasing and wanted to ease others’ minds about a couple things people found to be an issue but I did not. The stand is not wobbly, just tighten the bolts really well and use the washers, maybe use a power tool if you have one. My 10, 12, 15, 20 and 25 lb dumbbells fit very nicely, I think the 10 and 12 just barely touch but not bad. It IS a finger smasher if you’re trying to put the weights in quickly but I use two hands for the heavier weight and a pinch motion for the lighter ones, it’s not a deal breaker. Overall this is such a great stand for the price, I love that it stores all the main dumbbells I use vertically and doesn’t take up a bunch of space!

Holds all my weights. Works good

This is sturdy and is great for keeping my weights organized.

I got this because it (a) is just the right size (smallish) for where I wanted to use it, it's (b) inexpensive, and (c) is looks pretty decent. As other reviewers have commented, it smells terrible. It has strong, unrelenting order of asphalt. I used to have some free weights with the same type of rubber on them was just like this rubber in terms of smell, and they NEVER stopped smelling. The rubber pads where you place the handles of your weights on this are what stinks. Some say that the smell goes away in a year or so. I'm not interested in it stinking up my basement for a year or more to find out. Again, the same type rubber and smell on some free weights I had (plates) never went away and I don't really believe this smell will either. What I did about this was rip off the rubber pads, which leavens bits of the rubber (because of how they are glued on) on the frame. Then, I took an old but very sharp wood chisel and scrapped off the remaining rubber (taking some of the pain with it, but it still looks fine, especially with the weights on it. So, now the issue is that when you set the weights on it, it's metal to metal. I'm okay with that. The other defect in this otherwise nicely made and sized device is that the spacing between the rungs where you put your dumbbells is NOT big enough for four fingers (and I have medium to small hands). You HAVE to use three fingers, now your whole hand, when you replace a weight in the rack or else you are going to be constantly putting the weights down on one of your fingers. Of course, this is worse now that I've scraped the stinky rubber off of the thing. So, that's a pretty dumb design flaw. There's no excuse for it, either. It would not have taken hardly any more metal to have designed the spacing of the rungs (I mean, front to back, not up and down) so that you don't have to watch your fingers when replacing the weights. Lastly, someone noted that the device comes with a warning about a chemical known to cause cancer to the state of California. Never could figure out how California is so much smarter than the rest of the states to know these things (I think that's usually BS). But in this case, with the smell of the rubber, it's not hard to believe there is a pretty nasty chemical in there. It really smells bad and the smell is of something like asphalt or a tar based, solvent like, chemical. Assuming the smell is all gone after awhile since I scrapped off the rubber, I'm okay with the rack. But if you are not willing to do that, and if you are sensitive at all to smells, you will not be happy that you bought this, even though the price is great.

Well designed and built , compact and looks professional.(

I spent WAY too much time looking at different small barbell rack listings on Amazon and elsewhere. Many look shoddily built, too small, too big, no rubber grips to stop scratches - and worst of all, the reviews are so contradictory and confusing. I narrowed my shortlist to 3-4 items, but NOTHING, not the listings, nor the reviews told me what I really wanted to know. In the end I chose the "CAP Barbell Black A Frame Dumbbell Rack" because; - First off this rack is super easy to assemble & very stable (unlike many reviews say). All you need is a spanner, or best a socket wrench (have), and it took me less than 10 minutes, fully done. - I have 3 sets of 10kg, 12.5kg & 15kg Dumbells (~22/27/33 pounds) - so I wanted a 3 to 4x rack (this one is 5x). - It's well balanced, has a wide base, so is rock solid and it's specs say it holds 91kg (200 pounds). I have 75kg on it, so could add 2x 7.5kg and be under spec - and it's easily strong enough to hold a pair of 20kg, so 115kg (over spec) so it's very stable & strong WEIGHT wise. SIZE wise (as in Hex head) is trickier. - Those are kind of medium weights for an average Man, heavy for a Woman. So they're kind of larger hex heads - so the spacing between each "hook" is important. AND THAT is what I couldn't find anywhere. - Many reviews are by Women, and they say it's hard to assemble (it's not) and sometimes for little "chick's" neoprene colourful weights they don't fit and so on...or sometimes reviews are by Guys with HEAVY weights - like 20kg, 25kg, and those suckers have BIG hex heads, so they won't fit so well. - But if you're like me, and you have, say, 5kg, 7.5kg, 10kg, 12.5kg, 15kg & even 20kg large rubber head (just, especially if you only have 3-4 sets, depending on weight/size) hex dumbbells, this is a great rack. - The sizes I mention I have aren't too big - they JUST fit. But above that, you need a much bigger style of rack. This is a budget, cheap, $60AUD rack, and it works great for my small home gym. Probably also totally suitable for the smaller, candy coloured "chick's" weights. - Another problem people mention is not being able to fit your hand in between to lift the dumbbell out. I have smallish hands for a Man, and I can (just) do it for 10kg, but heavier, no - BUT that's not how you should lift heavy dumbbells out anyway - my 5th photo shows how you're meant to do it with two hands. --> FINALLY here is what I COULDN'T find ANYWHERE (for any racks!). My 6th photo shows what I suspected...the "gap" between each "hook" gets smaller as you go up. So my 3x dumbbell sets fit fine on top of each other at the BOTTOM. But at the top/they don't fit! As you can see I spaced them out anyway. My pic 6 shows with a tape measure, and they lose 2cm per "hook" as you go up. Hope this helps save some people time. But unless you have really heavy weights, I recommend this as really good home gym dumbbell rack.

外国の方のレビューで、幅が小さくは見えるが取り出しやすい幅が確保されているとのレビューがあり、ヘックスダンベルにはコンパクトで丁度良いかなと思って購入したが、真ん中下の二つの柱をつなぐ細い支柱のネジ穴の左右のずれがひどく、高重量を扱うにしては組み立てが怖かったので返品した。また、手の入る隙間であるが、やや手が小さい自分の手をもってしても、かなり幅が狭い印象なので、ここから取り出して直ぐ筋トレするというよりは、一旦別の場所にダンベルを慎重に取り出してトレーニングする必要がある。金属製品のネジ穴のずれは海外製品に良く見られる難点であり、このあたりは個体差もあるかもしれないが日本製をお勧めする。

Très très bon!

Great stand, very stable and robust