Harold and Susan Vordos wrote:
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Ignoramus8644 wrote in article
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I support the idea of using one in the kitchen...

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Let's see......

....you have absolutely no idea of what sort of chemicals might leach out
of the former surface plate into the food.

AND....

....the granite surface will keep you busy sharpening knives.

You can use it in YOUR kitchen if you wish, but......

Give me a hardwood or poly cutting board for the kitchen......ANY day


My thoughts, exactly!

The way I see it, unless one is involved in making certain candies, a
granite surface would be quite useless.

Harold


Certain *awesome* candies, of which I'm familiar. I've got a piece of
granite countertop in my kitchen area. It is really neat, but I have a
wooden cutting board, also.g

Ditto what Harold said in earlier post. I have 2 surface plates and they
are both on casters. If you have the potential to be moving your plate
for any reason, you would be well off to make it easy.

I've seen resurfacing done a couple times, it's similar in technique to
the way one would flat sand a small part. A place I once worked had
several plates throughout the shop, as well as in the inspection room.
One was, IIRC, 12 feet square. When the calibration guy checked it prior
to truing, he found there was something like a 20-30 thou depression in
the center region. I don't kno the pricing structure, but I am
reasonably sure that particular job was not cheap.

I believe the instrument used to check the flatness is an
autocollimator.(sp?)

michael