Weird all around. Either dude at gym has sloppy scale skills, York doesn't know 40kg = a hair over 88lbs, not 52 or 59, or it just depends on the humidity lol.
"Doctor Ken" Leistner used to say a lot of weird stuff himself, once said a guy at York confessed their bars were like cookies, "there's good batches and there's bad batches," but that was DECADES ago. Back in the day, Eleiko always used to be the Rolls Royce of bars and plates, but I figured the mushrooming popularity of PL would have seen other companies up their game.