[Shop-talk] [Bulk] Re: Grinder pedestal

[John Miller]

> I use a now-unobtainable option.  My Dad found a round cast iron "No
> Parking" sign base sometime in the late 40's and it's pretty much perfect.
> Probably 40-50 pounds, about 18" in diameter at the base,  easy to roll to
> another location, and really sturdy.  I've never seen another one, but if
> they're still to be found somewhere, it's a perfect base.

This has *absolutely* nothing to do with bench grinder bases, though I 
think a disc or slab of steel or an old wheel with suitable weight on it 
should work fine.

I grew up in a house in the Sunset end of San Francisco, and our house 
- like many of the houses in the area - was equipped with a wonderfully 
sturdy kitchen table that was a linoleum-topped square of plywood 
attached to an oval shaped piece of 1/2in steel base.

My father, who'd been working in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond until 
he was drafted in early 1943, noted that that all those oval-shaped 
table bases were passageway cutouts from Liberty ship bulkheads.

John.