After talking to a friend of mine I'm thinking I'll just wait until I can find the 1.25 pipe in stock. He works at a gym and they used some of the 1 inch pipe for the pull-up bars. After about a year of hard use, he says one of the L joints had a small fracture in it. They started using the 1.25 inch after that and haven't had a problem since. However, they still have quite a few 1 inch bars up, which haven't had a problem, so it might have been faulty to begin with.
I'm 99% sure the 1 inch pipe would probably be okay, but I don't want to spend $100+ on a stand that *might* break on me down the road. Better safe than sorry.
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