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...
SF Good Questions: How Can I Remove these Chrome Fittings from My Glass Table?
...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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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.
view vieboheme's profile
diddo Vieboheme, my thoughts exactly
view E.M.H's profile
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.
view bepsf's profile
I agree, just sell it all.
view aladywhoknows's profile
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=
view randomdesign's profile
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.
view kimg924's profile
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.
view Jute Zak's profile