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

I have been using these in place of spring clips for a 1” barbell. I find them much easier to use with an extra Allen wrench on hand than the spring clips, and they remain very secure even at weights over 100 lbs.

Inner bore diameter is not 1”. Calipers show it was short by 1mm.

This worked perfectly for me. I purchased a MERAX pulldown machine with standard (1 inch) weight bar. It came with an adapter to Olympic plates, but it meant I needed 2 spring clips: one for the 1”-2” adapter and one for the 2” plates. I used this as a semi-permanent collar. It holds the adapter and allows the Olympic weight to slide over. Perfect.

Very well made. Feels nice. Solid piece. Perfect inner diameter almost to a fault. It was so perfectly cut to 1 ID that it was sort of tight. Wasnt too much trouble though just had to slide hammer it in. Very secure hold once the hex is tightened down. Highly Recommend!

Put on my go kart axle 1 inch to align sprocket. worked great

We use these on a lot of different type jobs

Listed as 5/16 - 18 thread pitch but was actually 5/16 - 24. Rather than that they are the correct diameter and well made

Installs easily

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.

Very convenient, useful, reliable