Body-Solid Powerline Cable Crossover Machine for Home

Very happy purchase !!! It’s very smooth and sturdy. I tried cable crossovers, triceps pulldowns, bicep curls, & leg extensions
*PLEASE READ in its entirety. I provide great information to inform you*:::SHIPPING:::I have Prime shipping. I ordered it on a Friday and received two boxes on the following Wednesday and the third box on Thursday. All boxes were in excellent condition as well as all the pieces inside. So when the UPS person brings you the first two boxes just let the driver know that a third box must arrive the following day (they are labled 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3).:::ASSEMBLY:::-Manual for assembly: to download it just google “Powerline Cable Crossover Machine PCCO90X manual” and you’ll get the PDF. It comes with the equipment but I recommend that while you wait that you read the entire manual so that when your product arrives you are already familiar with the pieces and steps. The way the instructions are written takes a bit of time to get used to but once you get used to it the instructions will be very clear to you.-Don’t worry that the manual is long and that there are lots of instructions. Once you read them once or twice and see the parts for yourself you’ll see that assembly is very easy.-If you’re buying this also for triceps and biceps, then I recommend: Champion Cable Attachment Package Pack. I got them and they are of excellent quality and love them!-No tool is provided. But I assembled the entire thing with just my hands. After all is assembled you need a Socket Wrench to tighten up the 14 lock nuts that hold the whole thing together and six more (one for each pully).-After I assembled the whole thing and saw the complete product with my own eyes I am not impressed with the quality of the product, especially with the cables – they are made of plastic and look cheap. The whole thing looks cheap. This product sells on Amazon for $409 (+$36 tax) now on 5/4/2013, so it must have cost the manufacturing company about $120 at most to make. That’s right. This product cost them ~$120 to make, and they sell it for $409. This applies to every product ever made by any company (cars, computers, etc.). This is how business works. So now you know that you are in fact getting a cheap piece of equipment. I took a couple business and economics classes in college so take my word for it. Low manufacturing cost and big profit is what drives business. But the equipment looks nice and I love it!-Assembly was very easy and even if the instructions are only ~90% clear, the other 10% can be figured out by common sense.-Whenever you install a pully holder or mid pully holder during assembly, do not tighten up the lock nuts because at the very end of assembly (Steps 5A-C) you’ll be inserting and routing the cables so the pullies will have to be taken out real quick to do that (very easy).-Step 2B: you’ll need a wrench extension for those two lock nuts. If you don’t have it then they won’t fall of until maybe an hour of exercise.-The leg attachment (thing that wraps around leg) is actually pretty good. The thing looks very cheap and it looks like it won’t work but when I tried it, it actually worked really well! I tried it for the hamstrings and quads and it worked!-Step 2D: IMPORTANT – here the instructions forgot to mention to first apply silicon spray on the Vertical Frames BEFORE attempting to slide down the assembled Weight Frame. So do not forget to do this! Otherwise you’ll have to literally hammer it down to slide! That’s what I did until I realized I needed to apply silicon spray… It was so frustrating and I even thought I must have gotten defective parts (wrong size)! So I have warned you of step 2D.-IMPORTANT: After you finish assembly and you test the product you’ll notice that it is not smooth at all and that the Weight Frames simply stick to the vertical frames and don’t go down. This just means that you have to apply silicon spray but only on your personal “range” of the vertical frames that the weight frames will use. After the silicon spray, they’ll be extremely smooth! This step is also NOT on the instructions but it’s common sense.-99% of the assembly can be done by one person. The only exception is step 3A-3B – here’s where you attach the long cross beam to the two tall vertical frames.-Took me a couple hours to do the entire assembly since the instructions were not worded well and it was my first time with this product. Now that I’ve done it once, if I had to do it again it would take me maybe ~30 minutes.-I also own PowerLine PPR200X Power Rack (for squats and safe bench pressing) from this company and I tell you from experience that if you are not careful when you put the weight plates on the holding bars that the paint will come off. With the power rack I just put strong tape on the bars to prevent this so you can either always be extremely careful or just wrap strong tape around the bars to prevent paint from falling off when you take out the weight plates over time. This product does come with a tiny bottle of paint in case you need to re-paint it a bit.-This piece of equipment is fully stable and sturdy after all bolts have been tightened up AND the two bases are properly wide apart. If they are not enough apart then the equipment won’t be sturdy so distance is important here!-My non-olympic weight plates fit perfectly.-It came with two crossover handles (they feel very comfortable).-If you do decide to get the Champion Cable Attachment Package Pack, then I highly recommend getting two extra links (at any local store near where you live) or on Amazon: 100mm x 10mm Zinc-Galvanized Steel Carabiner Snap Link Hook – 3-3/4″ x 3/8″ (weight limit of each 100mm link = 500lbs, total = $7.38 including shipping for two) because this way you can leave four of the five attachments connected to the equipment at all times and the other can just be left hanging on it too. Or else with just the two links that come with this equipment you’ll have the three attachments left unattached which can be VERY annoying.-Lat exercises should also technically be possible with this if the attachment is bought and you use your own chair, and even rowing is also technically doable with this equipment.:::WORKOUT:::Very smooth! It is a pleasure to finally own my own! I tried cable crossovers, triceps pull-downs, bicep curls, and leg extensions (for hamstrings and quads).

Equipment Seems Great! Directions Suck…
The machine itself seems to be working well. There is no stickiness whatsoever with the up/down movement like some others have mentioned. I suspect some of them may have put the plastic pieces on wrong that go inside the part that the weights sit on and that ride over the vertical metal piece to act as a barrier for it to slide up-and-down when pulled by the cables. There are holes in the tube that they go in that line up with a part of the plastic piece designed to fit in them. If you put the plastic inserts in the wrong direction then they will either not fit over top when you try to slide them over this piece, or if you do get them over they will be too tight and have a slightly “sticky” feeling when pulling up-and-down. The included garage door lube it came with helps make it a smooth ride as well. Either way, it’s important to keep it all lubricated. It came with one wrong bolt too so I had to use an old one from a car shock absorber. If it wasn’t for the annoying directions and wrong part I would give this a 5. I will update if anything changes while using

Great value and quality, high potential number of workouts!
Review after my first workout:5/5: ValueSold and shipped by Amazon. Bought it during a Daily deal special.4.5/5: Quality- Overall, seems well-made, and the tubing is thick.- Pulleys are very smooth. Ball bearings in there!- Cables (two) seem high quality- Cons:1)What I wasn’t initially thrilled with was the fact that the weight carriages slide up and down the square vertical tubes on plastic bushings/shoulders. The key is to USE THE SILICON spray that comes with the set. The instructions never mentioned where to actually use the silicon, so take my recommendation and put it all over the vertical tubes and inside the square bushings. Makes a world of improvement! And the spray is sticky, so it doesn’t run everywhere. A+ on Powerline including that (and touchup paint! who does that?? A+) !2) Get a carpenters square and be sure the vertical tubes are square to the horizontal top tube. The instructions don’t mention to check this. Helps to make everything stable and sit flat on the floor. Before installing the top inside corner pulleys, put the square up inside the corner (where the pulley normally would be) as you tighten the bolts.4/5 Assembly:I didn’t really have any difficulties – just some minor things that could be clarified. Assembled everything myself with no help. My instructions included helpful diagrams, but in reading some reviews from several years ago, it appears they used to only have diagrams.I love it so far! I have a full Olympic weight set, so I can load it up. Note that the tubes which hold the weight plates are the small diameter size, but my bigger plates don’t seem to rattle around. Use your imagination, and you number of workouts at your disposal is incredible.UPDATE Feb. 2015I’ve used this system for over a year now and wanted to give an update.1. No issues or defects. The machine still works perfectly and nothing has broken.I do occasionally reapply the included silicon spray to the vertical supports.2. Think outside of the box! If your workout routines have gotten stale, don’t be afraid to try new ideas. This equipment lets you do just that. However, you may want to purchase additional cable attachment handles, such as a double D/triangle grip and lat pull-down bar. Also, a stand-alone bench with adjustable incline/decline increases the number of possible exercises even more!

Received 3 weeks earlier than scheduled. Pretty easy assembly. Very sturdy and cable motion is very smooth. Building home gym after decades at a gym and this was the perfect addition. Highly recommended- you can perform so many exercises with this machine.

Anyone that has the space for one of these in their gym should get one. It transformed my training. It doesn’t actually take up much space, its just quite high. The only gripe would be it is a shame there is not a setting for the cables to be used from the middle of the machine, only the top and bottom. But even so, the value for money is brilliant. So many exercises can be done with this thing, Best piece of gym kit I ever bought.Easier to construct with two people. About 2 hours. approx.