Bells of Steel Smith Machine Attachment Review: Fits All Power Racks!

This is the Bells of Steel Smith Machine Power Rack Attachment. It's a drop-in Smith machine. They say fits 47 inch and 49 inch exterior racks, but now I have tested and verified it will work on 48 inch racks as well, meaning that it will work on all the current 3x3 racks, 1 inch or 5 eighth inch holes on the market, making it one of the first truly universal Smith Machine attachments for Power Racks to date. You can install it off of an upright, a cross member, have the Smith path angled or vertical, and really just allow you to put this in any location or orientation you want on your rack. It's also one of the most affordable and cheapest Smith Machine attachments that I'm aware of, so it has some serious appeal in this age of wanting to add Smith machines to our existing racks. And for the last few months, I've done just that, so let's check it out.

Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're reviewing the Bells of Steel Smith Machine Power Rack Attachment. As I mentioned, this is on a 48 inch width rack. This is a Titan Fitness Titan Series Rack. You've probably seen this whole rack room, which is made up of Titan Fitness uprights. I'll link that video in the description below if you're interested on what exactly makes up these racks and the system here. The important thing and the reason I mentioned this to start the video is because Bells of Steel says this fits on 47 inch and 49 inch width exterior racks, which are their racks.

And now I've tested and been using for months and verified that it in fact works here absolutely perfectly on a 48 inch exterior, 42 inch interior. So that's going to be this rack Titan Fitness, things like get our X. So pretty much this Smith Machine in my opinion is universal. Before I get into the video, if you could quickly hit that subscribe button below if you're not ready, it's going to continue to help us grow the channel and make sure you get notified when we post both of our weekly reviews throughout the rest of 2025 and all next year. And as always, if you're interested purchasing this after the view, please check out that affiliate link in the description below. At the time of filming this, it's around $640 for Black Friday sales. And I'm assuming it's going to stay a little bit discounted through the holidays.

Typically it's around $850 or so. The coolest part about this is there's a couple of different options. One, the traditional hollow Smith Bar that everyone knows is on most Smith Machines. It's a 32 millimeter diameter bar. It's just a very normal average Smith Bar. One of the things they did with this with the bar with the whole system is make it cheap. And I don't necessarily mean cheap feeling. I just mean they tried to reuse the most simplistic way they can make a Smith machine that then would be functional for multi configuration, bunch of different racks, and they did just that.

So they keep the cost down because it's not this super nice, you know, bougie looking thing. I'm going to be doing a review of the Rep Fitness Smith Machine, which I think is going to be a little more along that line. And that one again is like $1,000. You're talking about a $400 difference to be able to mount this on pretty much any rack, and you don't have to have a rep rack. You don't have to have a Bell's rack, pretty much universal.

How they make it universal is a couple of different things. They have these brackets here. Again, this will fit one inch and five eighth inch racks. So underneath these, there's also some smaller holes. These are one inch bolts for one inch rack, but they have five eighth inch holes as well.

Technically, you could really make it fit on smaller racks if you supply your own bolts, but they at least supply five eighth and one inch bolts. I have it mounted here on an angle. You can do it like this on an angle, or you could mount it vertically. So this bracket on the bottom could have been instead of mounted on this front foot to make it angled, which by the way, I like it angled. I personally like angled Smith machines.

Some people like straight, but the point is you can change it at any time. This bracket rather than mounting here, we'll simply just mount to the uprights. And again, you can do it on the front of an upright, you can do it on the back of an upright, you can do it on some back posts for a rack. So really, you can just mount this wherever you want. And it doesn't take up that much space. When it's flat, I think it's about, you know, if you measure here somewhere in like the 10, 11 inches of space. So this rack here is a 16 inch depth cross member. Honestly, I could have if I wanted to, instead of mounting it on the front uprights, put it on the back uprights and still been able to get in there and have space to have a Smith machine.

So that's absolutely fantastic. I mean, we all want more functionality in a small space. That's what home gyms and all one racks are for. So to be able to do that, both the universal, angled, straight, any rack you want, and any place you want in the rack is really valuable, honestly, in my opinion. So as a Smith machine, it works very well.

Again, I would say no major bells and whistles, you know, it is what it is. You have these little like screw in bolt in, little latching locking points all the way down. I honestly don't love these on Smith machine systems because they come into the rack by, you know, two, two and a half inches or so.

But in this case, this is exactly how they make it universal. Because whether it's a wide rack or a narrow rack, there's enough lateral space on these hooks to be able to catch it. So again, this is a 42 inch rack.

If it were wider on a 43 inch rack, that means we would have an extra half inch in that we would need to latch onto. So that's why they have these stick in here. This is pretty traditional, normal for Smith machines. The only reason I don't like that it's because I'm long and lanky. And when I go to do things, especially where I'm doing like an incline press or military press, my elbows at full width are around that range. So depending on what angle I'm doing, I tend to come pretty close or sometimes do hit that. I've called that out on the get our X tornado Smith machine in the past. That is just my problem with long arms and bench or other pressing with these type of things.

But I am so willing to trade that for the price. And again, the universal aspect of this, absolutely, I would say not a complaint from me, but something to note for those again, who are taller or potentially have that same issue. The other part that makes this universal is they supply, it's going to be really hard to see they supply these little spacers. So this mounting bracket can fit at a minimum there 2.3 inch width racks. So that's something that Bezos steel has and a maximum the three inch racks here, just due to the bolt size they give you. So for this, I have it centered on a 42 inch rack. If you have a 43 inch rack or a 41 inch rack, you just change the orientation of spacers. If you put the spacers on the outside, it pushes everything to the inside and vice versa, put the spacers on the inside, pushes it wider the outside.

So again, it will fit the 41 inch interior racks, that's 47 inch exterior for a three by three and 43 inch interior, which is 49 inch exterior racks. I know that's a lot of information. And this whole Smith machine, by the way, has a ton of information about the angles, about the heights, about the spacing, et cetera. Bezos steel has a great job on their website of listing all the technical details. So I don't want to go over all of them here. I will link that in the description below.

I really just want to talk to you how well it works. As I mentioned, this is a hollow bar. So lighter than a traditional bar, it's 16 ish pounds for the bar, plus the little trolley and everything. So unloaded right here, this way 16 pounds. So anything you're loading on top of that is 16 pounds plus. They do have an option for BYOB, bring your own bar.

It's the exact same price as far as I remember, basically rather than include. this hollow bar that mounts on this linear bearing trolley system. It's very similar where they still have the linear bearing trolley system, but it basically just has a little latch. It doesn't have the obviously limb-like weight horns or anything and allows you to just clamp your own barbell on there. You can use barbells from 25 millimeter to 30 millimeter diameter. That's pretty nice if you like to use a very specific knurling or something at home, but obviously then you kind of have to either dedicate a bar to put on there or take a bar on and off every time, and for the same price, honestly for most machines, I'd rather have the convenience of just having it already on there and I don't have to take a bar on and off. Plus when you do put an Olympic bar, it's 45 pounds, assuming you're using a standard Olympic barbell. So 45 pounds for a starting Smith machine with no counterbalance is actually kind of heavy. So just weigh your pros and cons. However, if you start heavier, you can potentially then go heavier. So if you're strong and you never go that low, great, but it's completely up to you.

I will say as far as the capacity of this weight wise, they say 600 pounds and I think very adequately, I haven't tried to max out to that, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Everything here is very solid, very smooth. I've had some complaints with some other Smith machine systems that when you grab it, you can kind of like get it to torque or wiggle side to side. There is no front to back play. There's no side to side play. No matter if you grip the bar here, you grab it in the middle. If you grab it on this side, like everything is very evenly balanced, very evenly distributed.

So you can do one arm movements on here without like, you know, torquing one side and it feels really weird. It feels solid. It feels like a normal Smith machine like you would want in, you would expect. So I have zero complaints and the fact at angles, absolutely great.

The two downsides in my opinion on this Smith machine, because there's so many upsides to this, the two downsides is going to be the height, which for me, as you can see, I'm six, two, I'm getting pretty close. If not at the top of this, it's somewhere, again, check their website in the 72 inch range. It also is going to depend on where you have it mounted. And that's one nice thing because you can mount it wherever you want. I decided to mount it at the lowest to be able to do lower movements, things like bent over rows, or, you know, normal barbell press, stuff like that, potentially even Romania deadlift. You can mount it as high as you want. So on a rack like this, I could have chosen to take this, mount it as high as I can up here. Just my starting stopping height is going to be shifted higher rather than shifted lower. For most people, I suggest putting it down because you can still do squats, although I'm close to the top latch on here.

So not having more room. So for me, when I'm doing squats, I'm in the second highest position. When I'm angled like this, this top one is actually not usable because you can't really get that in there because of this bracket.

So if you had this in the straight configuration, you could use this top stopper, but in the angled configuration, you have to use the second stopper. So point being, squatting is probably going to be the highest limitation where you start this movement at. So I would assume someone up to six foot four, six foot five, which is really what ends up being the high end for most of these machines. And I'm sure all you tall people out there over that height know that pretty much nothing is actually made for you over that height because most people are not that tall.

The overall height though, because I have it in this lower setting means obviously I can't go higher than whatever 70, 71, 72 inches this has here. If you want to do a standing overhead press something not going to happen. Although if you're doing, let's say a seated military press, full stretch, you will end up somewhere about in this top peg as well.

So you have full range of motion there. Like I said, you can move it higher or lower on the uprights. If you want to, if you have taller uprights, I personally would like to see them offer two heights, like a short version like this.

And then maybe one that's somewhere in the eight, nine, 10 inches taller, then it gives me a little more flexibility as far as mounting points. But again, for the price, if that's what's going to keep the price low is they just have a one stop shop package. But I think they could easily make exactly this a little bit longer tubes, charge me an extra 50, 100 bucks or so for the extra metal tube, whatever, I would like that option.

So that's the higher limitations. The downside limitations of having it lower on the rack are going to be the safety stoppers here. This lowest height the bar can go here. I measured to the center of the bar is 20 and a half inches. So for me, that's right underneath my kneecaps, which obviously is way too high for things like deadlifts or RDLs.

I can do bent over rows on here with just a slight knee bend like this, no problem. But you'll see I'm about an inch and a half, two inches sometimes about coming close to that spring stopper system. That is how it stops the trolley from moving is this spring, you know, if you drop it, it absorbs the whole weight of the trolley down here.

And then there's a little like rubber plastic washer. These springs I wish is something they could change. I have seen other companies, I think Getter Rex actually did something similar because their Smith machine that they were including with their tornado racks, we're also having issues with this lower height, basically being way too tall for a low height.

I wish this is one thing that Bezos steel could improve for future iterations. I don't know enough about the safety of all this, but maybe even just a little thicker, you know, plastic rubber washer down here, make this a half inch thick, get rid of the four and a half inches of spring here. And that means four and a half inches more range of motion. That means rather than stopping at 20 and a half inches, this spring was gone, you know, you could get down to 16 inches, which is then a lot more acceptable. In the meantime, that is the trade off for this type of system. My solution to this is to get some sort of platform or step up plate.

I've had these for a while. This is a Tibbar guy slant stack. If it doesn't matter if you grab, you know, some sort of plyo box, if you want to grab your own like wooden platform, I've seen people make something to just get you higher off the ground stack some plates, whatever it is.

So this box is about six inches tall. So this helps put it a little more in the center of my legs. So if I want to do things like deadlifts, this gets me in a much, much more comfortable place than I don't really have that issue. Again, if the springs were gone and I added this, we'd be talking about a pretty insane range of motion.

So that's honestly probably the only real improvement that I think they could make for this price without wildly changing the design. Overall, again, as a Smith machine, the linear bearings, it's very smooth. It's very balanced. They can handle heavy load. Yeah, sure, it doesn't look like the prettiest on a rack, but again, it's universal.

If you've used universal everything, you know that's kind of how it is. This tube has to be small enough to match their 2.3 by 2.3 racks. They give you all the brackets, all the bolts, all the adapters.

So there's not really a whole lot more that I could ask for as far as improvements other than range of motion. Overall, from the price and what you get, this fit your rack. You can fit any different rack. What more could you ask for? So guys, that's it for this review of the Bezos Steel Smith Machine Power Rack Attachment. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them down below. I'll be happy to answer at least try. Thanks for tuning in to the Jumblige and Rebus. We'll see you next time. Take it easy.

Peace. The angle that I have shown is four degrees. You could actually bump it up to the next hole, probably be around like the six, seven degrees, or you can make it even shallower angle like two degrees. So it really just depends where on the front feet you actually decide to mount this.