On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 06:00 PM, Phil wrote:
I recently decided to do the same thing but decided to use cast iron for it's properties. Of course I didn't have a piece big enough and wound up on line.
No joke, a 3 inch square hunk of cast iron wound up costing me $72 delivered to my door.
In hindsight, if I were to do it again I would have used the piece of structural Aluminum I have sitting on my bench. It is very hard for Aluminum and would have worked just fine.
Good luck no matter what you wind up using, I just thought I would share a small example of my stupidity....
Not stupid at all, IMO. I had an aluminum 'plinth' riser block on my 7x, and I replaced it with a cast iron block recently. The cast iron's weight definitely seems to make a positive difference. About paying a lot for cast iron- when I was 'whittling' down one end of a 25# dumbbell to get the cast iron block I needed, I would have gladly paid $75 to avoid that work. What a mess!
