So a little background first. I live in an apartment. More importantly, this apartment is in a college town. This is why making a stripper pole makes sense, after all, it’s always great for parties.

Of course, I live in an apartment. 2nd story apartment to be more exact. Which means I have a couple obstacles to this goal. The first obstacle is that I don’t want to find the beams in the ceiling to attach a pole up to (plus the beam might not be wide enough or strong enough to support a beam). This all means that the support must be all on the bottom without making my whole setup collapse my floor.

Coming from a family of engineers, I had thought up how to do this in a few minutes. Then I thought someone might’ve done it better so I googled ‘mobile stripper pole’. The results I had found seemed sturdy but I thought I could improve upon the design a bit. Also, the best result I found had only hand sketched blueprints that were kind of vague. Before I started building this with my friend, I decided to try to photo catalogue this for anyone who might want to have a better visual of the steps in building it.


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