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I bought this pull-up bar ( https://trugrit-fitness.com/products/tru-grit-pull-up-bar-lite ) since it was on sale, but now I'm stumped on whether I am mounting it safely. Here is how I planned to install it, first my walls are plaster so using a stud finder or magnets was giving me inconsistent reading, so I ended up buying an endoscope camera to locate the studs which explains the holes in the walls which I will patch up later. The red outlines show the studs which I found out are 2x4 and are laying on the 4-inch side, so it only gives me 2 inches of depth to screw the lag screws.

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I plan on using a 2x4 (which is outlined in black) that will span across 3 studs at the very top and use 3/8 lag screws to mount the 2x4 to the 3 studs. one more 2x4 that will span across 2 studs below the first one, Then another 2x4 that will span across 2 studs 23 inches below the previous 2x4.

I will then have a 2x4 right above the left side of the door frame to fill in the gap between the wall and the pull-up bar bracket. enter image description here

The final image has the pull-up bar bracket color-coded in pink which is how I plan to mount it. Should I be worried about it not being secured? are there modifications that I can make or should I ditch the plan entirely? enter image description here enter image description here

CrackersWithNutella
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Don't

Based on your comments so far the wall was designed and built as a divider for a closet with sideways-mounted studs. You should not mount a chin up bar to this wall. It's strong enough to support the plaster on both sides of it, nothing more. The wall could flex under the force of a chin-up, and the plaster would all crack and crumble. Worst case if the studs were attached to the building with a "just enough" mindset, they could detach from the ceiling or floor and fall over.

Hopefully there is more to the wall than that and you'll tell us in the comments. But if that's the whole story, you should find a better location for the bar, on a stronger wall.

jay613
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Yes your plan to bridge across the missing studs is sound.

to protect the glass install a door stopper on the angle bracket and another on the floor.

Jasen
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Canonical solution: mount wood or metal to studs to bridge the space where you want to hang the object, mount object to that bridge. A chunk of plywood might be good since it will distribute the torque forces over a larger area and give you room to run a few more screws into the studs.

Run it all the way down to the floor and it will also ensure you never kick a hole in your plaster. ;-)

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