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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:46 +0100, Frank Erskine wrote:

A glass worktop saver might be a bit tougher, so you may have to
resort to ordinary glass. No harm in experimenting though.


"tougher", hum, A worktop saver might be toughened glass as well, medium
risk of it just falling apart once you start to abrade one surface or at
some random time afterwards...

Probably better to get a couple of sheets of ordinary 6mm plate glass,
some mild abrasive (Vim etc has been mentioned) and water. Rounding the
edges or radusing the corners would probably be better done by a proper
glass merchant who may as well frost it as well.

To be honset, go and by a sqquare of frosted toughened glass anyway.
It's not THAT exepsnive. Hacing had 6 sheets of std. glass just break
under its own weight because here was a seat rail infer the dog rug in
the boot, anything other than toughened should NOT be allowed in a house.