Magnetic
HQ Germany Magnetic Steel Collars, 50 mm
A pair of 50 mm solid steel collars with embedded magnets to hang on a power cage, a honeycomb rubber liner and a one-finger quick release.
What the maker publishes
- 50 mm, for all Olympic barbells; 2 collars (1 pair)
- Embedded magnets — the collars hang on the power cage or any magnetic
surface, stated always to hand, never on the floor
- A large-area rubber inlay with a honeycomb structure and a
close-fitting tolerance, stated to make the collars sit rock solid
- Quick release — the safety catch is pushed away with one finger
- Solid steel, with connecting pieces and joints in steel, stated
substantially more robust than conventional plastic quick releases
The magnets
The only listing on this shelf that addresses where a collar actually goes.
Think about how a barbell collar is lost. Not broken — mislaid. It comes
off the bar, gets put on the floor, kicked under the rack, buried behind the
plate tree. Ten minutes of a session go to finding it.
Magnets in the body mean the pair lives on the cage upright, at arm’s reach,
where they were left.
It is the kind of idea that only comes from using the thing, and six listings
here do not have it.
Steel, and what that changes
Five of the seven collars on this shelf are plastic. Two are steel: a
chromed spring, and this.
Plastic collars do not wear out — they crack at the hinge, after being
dropped or stepped on. This one publishes solid steel including the
connecting pieces and joints, which is where a hinged clamp is actually
loaded.
The maker makes the comparison directly, and this page reports it as the
maker’s claim.
The honeycomb
A liner described by pattern, not just by material.
Four collars on this shelf name a rubber liner. This is the only one that says
what shape it is, and the shape matters: a honeycomb has many small edges to
bite and voids for the rubber to deform into, where a flat pad presses on one
plane.
Paired with a close-fitting tolerance, those are the two things that decide
whether a clamp holds.
The price
By a wide margin the highest on this shelf.
What it buys is published: steel instead of plastic, magnets, a described
liner. Whether that is worth several times a PVC pair is a judgement about a
room, and this page supplies the facts rather than the conclusion.
Left off the listing
The width, the mass, and any clamping force — as on every collar in
this family.
Availability
About 25 € on the German Amazon store, on the one reading this page rests on.
The Italian Amazon catalogue lists the reference with nobody selling behind it.
The American, British, French and Spanish Amazon stores returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search rather than an empty page.
These figures are what Keepa returned on the day this page was last written. Stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 20 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
