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Hi Everybody!
Just ran into this dicussion about homemade poles. Yes, mine is a simple piece of 2 inch electrical conduit that I cut with an aluminum conduit cutter. I did use a piece of plywood from a craft store to make the base. Now I would recommend a slightly sturdier piece of plywood as a base. I did end up reinforcing the wooden base with some steel strips because it had started to crack. The wooden base isn’t officially attached to the floor other than by the friction from sandpaper staple gunned to the bottom of the wooden base. I don’t worry about the pole wiggling or "traveling" much because it is bracketed to the basement ceiling with 4 or 5 steel brackets. I reinforced the ceiling joists with a few strips of carpenter’s steel (they are about a dollar a piece) and an Oak board on either side of the plank where the pole is attached.
I didn’t have to worry about appearances..after all it’s a basement..so I had a lot of freedom to just keep hammering away until the contraption was strong enough to be safe. I weigh nearly 200 pounds. The pole does not budge a millimeter on spins. It’s pretty sturdy.
The entire process is documented in a series of videos from July in 2008. I think they are still all up on You-Tube..somebody even assembled them into a playlist.
Joel