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IMG_1824.JPG IMG_1825.JPG Sorry didn't know if there was anywhere else to ask this.
I picked up a 54" round glass table with pedestal base. The glass is almost 3/4" thick so it's heavy as hell. The base has 8 rubber bumpers that apparently the glass top just sits on. It doesn't slide but lifts off with some force due to its weight. nothing came with it like suction cups or sticky pads like I thought and the box stores said they don't carry any such clear sticky pads or suction cups.
Question is, how is yours mounted? Suction cups? Where can I find these? Thx
 
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I think they are held in place by gravity. They aren't great tables for home with small kids. You can't lean hard on one of these without upsetting the whole thing.
 
Put that thing at the curb, or sell it on Craigslist.
It will either tip over or crack, sooner or later.

Extremely impractical.

Not to mention dangerous.

Do you want your kid slamming into that wooden base in a Big Wheels car, for example?
And kids always like to play under tables, like making a fort, not a safe place to be if that glass goes sliding off.

And kids tend to bang on the table when they are excited or frustrated, or just for the heck of it.
 
They are also great at showing finger prints. Years ago a friend had one, her kids liked to put one hand under the table and match it with the other on the top. Handprints on both sides of the glass. Fun! They are great tables for the pages of home magazines and showrooms. For real life, not so much.
 
The glass weighs about a good 125 lbs so I doubt it will go flying off. I know with that style pedestal it looks sketchy as all hell but during my "tip testing" when sitting on one end with elbows on table I can nearly put 3/4 of my body weight slowly and abruptly on it before anything shifts even slightly. Over time they do shift and need to be reset but I'm trying to avoid that with suction cups but turns out even the furniture stores said no glass table they carry ever had cups just them bumper grabber pads
 
My wife and I had one before kids. It was surprisingly sturdy but got rid of it when we had kids. Having now three little ones at our feet I can rest assured we made the right decision to get rid of it for both safety and practicality reasons. It sure looked nice in its place though and we would probably still have it if it wasn’t for the children.

As far as I’ve seen they all sit on the rubber pads and stay there with gravity. Ours would tip up if too much weight was placed on its edge (like someone leaning too hard, trying to sit on it, etc.) ... come to think of it now we were probably quite lucky it never broke one of those times it came smacking down after someone put too much weight on it.
 
You could drill four holes thru the glass equally spaced over the pedestal, then get a circular piece of oak or whatever, the same circumference of the base and screw it down.
 
My son has this California Grape Vine table except with an octagonal top. It has never been a problem but the base offers more support.
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Well, there's always that guy on tv that advertises the sealant that he made a glass boat out of... I've never used any of their products tho.
 
Well yeah I understand everyone's usual response to having kids which is if it's glass it's bad and must go. In my life I have more idiotic adults that screw crap up more than any small kids, unfortunately. Sister in-law babysat for us last week I tell her do NOT let them spill on the upstairs hardwood and to play in the 1400 sqft fully finished/furnished basement that's full of toys. I come home to find small puddles all over the kitchen
Oh the kids didn't spill anything, this idiot gave my 2yr old a GD cup full of ice cubes to munch on and let her go about her business. Some day I gave her a cup of coffee in a travel mug because I know she's an idiot. After the puddle incident I walk into the living room and she says "sorry I spilled coffee on your carpet".
Can't wait to see what this idiot adult does to this table. Ok rant over
 
oldognewtrick said:
Well, there's always that guy on tv that advertises the sealant that he made a glass boat out of... I've never used any of their products tho.
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I was thinking the same thing. just a drop of Eastman Permabond 910 Methyl Cyanoacrylate on each side of the rubber pads and the problem is solved. As long as the table wasn’t leaving the room anytime soon.
 
You won’t be able to dust under it ever again, except maybe with a leaf blower through the narrow gap.

So make sure it is totally clean before you glue it down.
At least in the area covered by the wood base.
 
There are plenty of clear flexible adhesives that will stick to wood and rubber and glass.
The rubber and other surfaces should be cleaned first with rubbing alcohol, and the rubber should be roughened up with coarse sandpaper to give it more tooth for the adhesive to grab onto.
 
Table Geometry 2.jpg The basic problem you have is that you have a large diameter table top on a small diameter base. If the base is 20" diameter, it takes about 88 pounds to tip the table top over. Vacuum cups or gluing the glass to the base is not going to do much, because the diameter where it contacts the floor looks identical to the diameter at the top. The geometry stays the same. Just the the weight increases somewhat (but that base looks like plastic and may not be very heavy). Only thing that works is to make or buy a base with a bigger top and
bottom diameter.
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Steve123 said:
View attachment 23057 The basic problem you have is that you have a large diameter table top on a small diameter base. If the base is 20" diameter, it takes about 88 pounds to tip the table top over. Vacuum cups or gluing the glass to the base is not going to do much, because the diameter where it contacts the floor looks identical to the diameter at the top. The geometry stays the same. Just the the weight increases somewhat (but that base looks like plastic and may not be very heavy). Only thing that works is to make or buy a base with a bigger top and
bottom diameter.
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Hi. Thank you for that analysis I agree that adhesive or suction cups won't do much now that I think about it. That pic u posted of the other table is funny because that's the one we wanted but they only had in white and ordering was like 3 months or something like that. Thinking about making like a spacer for the bottom out of wood, painting and bolting to bottom of base
 
Return it while you still can, just tell the store you have safety concerns and demand a refund.

Buy a normal table, keep your family safe.
 
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