One day this month I was in the Catalyst Fitness Turf room and started kicking the Heavybag. It’s not meant for heavy martial arts workouts because the stand supports are too close to the bag. I noticed there were three 45-lb plates on both floor supports and felt that was too many. I removed two from each side to see how it would stabilize when i kicked. I kicked it once I the stand almost flipped over. The floor support also almost flexed off the middle support. After looking closer at the floor support, I saw a bolt completely out of its hole. The other one was loose. No wonder people were piling 45-lb plates on the supports!
Needless to say I got the tools from the maintenance room and started to repair it. A different bolt had to be found and used because the current one was stripped. This means the threads are damaged. See the picture below.
I got a different bolt which had good threads and installed it in the support base. It’s much better now and when i kick and punch the heavybag, it’s more stable.