>go to the store to buy some fractional plates >ask for

>>41979398
nigga just cellotape a bag of sugar to the barbell

>>41979739
cellotape bitch what the fuck is that harry potter bullshit

Just put water jugs on a broom stick

>>41979739
10/10 solution

It's due to the tolerancing. Good 45 lbs plates can vary +/- 1 to 1.5 lbs. When you're working with weights under a lb it becomes a different matter entirely to make sure that they're made within an appropriate margin of error.

That being said, why the fuck would you waste money on that? Unless you want to go for a competition max then there's literally no point to buying microplates.

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>>41979940
>It's due to the tolerancing. Good 45 lbs plates can vary +/- 1 to 1.5 lbs. When you're working with weights under a lb it becomes a different matter entirely to make sure that they're made within an appropriate margin of error.
shit like this is funny

>food companies have gotten to the point they have automated machines that bag thousands of bags of food via letting it simply fall into the bag at the perfect weight, within .1 of a gram. they have had this tech for a couple decades now. you will never buy bag of potato chips that has an extra gram in it or missing one
>companies whose only job is to make a dedicated weight can't get it right when all they have to do is pour molten metal into a premade mode
lmao

Go and get 1" washers from a hardware shop.

I bought some and they were all around 250g each. Cost a couple of dollars.

>>41980166
comparing potato chips with molten metal.
are you this fucking thick?

>>41980166
I'm not going to call you and idiot because it's not exactly common knowledge, but you know nothing about materials engineering. Isotropic materials, meaning same material properties in all directions including density, nearly do not exist. A range is bound to happen by simple fact a material used in a process like this is never a true form of itself.