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SF Good Questions: How Can I Remove these Chrome Fittings from My Glass Table?

AT:SF, Help! Can AT readers help me save $250? I bought a new table base to replace an existing coffee table (I want to show off a tribal rug). The old table base has a glass top I can use on the new base *if* I can get four chrome fittings off the underside of the glass...

...Otherwise, I need to order a new glass top for $250. The fittings seem to adhere with a super-strength invisible epoxy. I'm wondering if there's a deadly chemical or even a bunny-safe product that would make it easy to get these things off the glass. Thoughts?

-Kim

Ideas, anyone?

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Comments (7)

Sell the whole table on Craig's list and use the money to buy glass...even if you can get them off, I bet it will leave an etched mark on the glass that won't look so hot with the new trial rug, anyhow.

posted by vieboheme on March 27th 2008 at 10:36am
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diddo Vieboheme, my thoughts exactly

posted by E.M.H on March 27th 2008 at 10:39am
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I agree w/ the other folks posting here...
...and a new round top doesn't have to cost $250 - just go to Pier 1 - a 36" top 1/2" thick will only run you $69, a 42" round is $79.

posted by bepsf on March 27th 2008 at 10:53am
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I agree, just sell it all.

posted by aladywhoknows on March 27th 2008 at 10:58am
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Are they really stuck to the glass?

There are wrenches out there for unscrewing caps like these.
http://www.crlaurence.com/ProductPages/S/SW30_20549.html?Origin=

posted by randomdesign on March 27th 2008 at 12:17pm
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In the couple of weeks since I origninally submitted this request I sold the table on craiglist for $100 and ordered a $250 glass top from Room and Board. I didn't realize I could find tops for that much less! thanks for the tips. Maybe I can scope out their tops before the R&B top ships.

posted by kimg924 on March 27th 2008 at 12:47pm
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Those metal blobs are usually stuck on with UV cured glue, which will be very difficult to get off either mechanically or chemically. Think epoxy, but a quality especially made to bond glass to metal.

posted by Jute Zak on March 27th 2008 at 1:04pm
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