Yes. The beam is fixed to a load-bearing wall at a 10 cm standoff, carrying 120 kg of machine and a 75 kg stack that moves under load. Where a room has no wall that qualifies, the SlimBeam Ceiling Clamp clamps the machine to the ceiling instead and removes the wall fixing from the job, provided you have a concrete ceiling or a solid ceiling beam. Decide this before you order, because it changes the parts list and the install.

3:1 as standard. The 3:1 rig is what the machine's own resistance figures describe, and it gives a 75 kg stack a 12.5 kg maximum at a single handle. Cables in 2:1 and 1:1 are available separately for heavier work. A cable is a separate purchase and it changes the whole span of the machine, so decide which one you want against the work you plan to do: the 3:1 gives the finest steps at a single handle, the 1:1 puts the full 75 kg stack within reach of a doubled cable. All three run on the same 75 kg stack and the same 8 m of cable extension.

One year from the date of first shipment, covering repair or replacement of a defective NOHrD product or component. That term goes to two years on all components and two years on all wooden components if you register the machine within the first year of purchase, and spare parts carry ninety days. The cover applies to private and commercial use alike. Register the machine when it is installed and the second year is yours.

On the standard 3:1 cable, 0.83 kg to 12.5 kg on a single extension and 1.65 kg to 25 kg doubled. On a 2:1 cable it is 1.25 kg to 18.75 kg single and 2.5 kg to 37.5 kg doubled. On a 1:1 cable it is 2.5 kg to 37.5 kg single and 5 kg to 75 kg doubled. The stack is the same 75 kg in all three cases; the cable decides how much of it reaches your hand and how fine the steps between plates are.

Yes. Both are in the box. Delivery contains the NOHRD SlimBeam Chin-Up Bar and the NOHRD SlimBeam Adaptor, the accessories adapter every attachment hangs from, plus the cords and the assembly instructions. The SlimBeam Chin-Up Bar and the SlimBeam Adaptor we list on their own pages are those same two parts, sold on their own for a second one, a spare, or a finish change. Buying the machine new, you do not need either.

100 kg, which is 220 lb. It is a hard limit on the machine and it applies to pull-up work on the included bar as much as to cable work. The machine's own weight is a separate figure at 120 kg, and that is the load the wall carries before anyone touches it.

The beam is 215 cm tall and 40 cm wide, fixed 10 cm from the wall, and it protrudes 20 cm into the room in total. The base plate is 17.3 in. across and the whole machine stands on less than a quarter of a square meter. What it does need is clear floor in front of it, because the working space of a cable machine is the space the cable reaches, out to 8 m of travel.

Eight in NOHrD's own range and nine through us. Six of them are wood, running from the black-stained Shadow at the entry to Walnut at the top, and the wooden surfaces on all six are finished in hard wax oil. White and Stainless Steel are the two that are not wood, and a Grey finish is available through us as well. The beam, the 3:1 ratio and the 100 kg user rating are the same whichever one you take.

Four packages, and yes. The SlimBeam is assembled on site and fixed to the wall as part of that work, so plan for two people and clear access to the wall. Get the wall fixing checked by whoever is doing the install before the crates arrive, because the beam cannot be moved along the wall afterwards without redoing the fixing.

The machine does not. The stack, the butterfly and the cables are entirely mechanical, so a SlimBeam can go on a garage wall with no outlet anywhere near it. The one part that does need power is the optional SlimBeam Monitor, which reads out the set weight, the total weight lifted and the repetition count. If you want the monitor, get an outlet within reach of the beam.

15 oval plates of 5 kg (11 lb) each, 75 kg in total, made up of 14 selectable plates on a 5 kg base weight. Every plate is individually rubberised with a black matt finish, and the stack runs quiet inside a wooden beam. At the standard 3:1 ratio each plate is worth roughly 0.83 kg at a single handle, so the steps between settings are small enough for single-arm work.

The parts that change what the machine does are the Lat Upgrade Set for overhead pulling, the resistance cables in 2:1 and 1:1, the aluminum lat bar, the wood extension handle bars and the NIM SpineCoach, which clamps on as a height-adjustable swivelling seat. The lubricant spray is the maintenance item for the cable run.