Round steel bases

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:21 am

Other than getting washers anyone know where I can get some round steel bases?

Doug

CBoy3 · Post by **CBoy3** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:28 am

Hi Doug, what size diameter did you have in mind for the bases?

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:12 am

Does it have to be steel, or are you just looking for metal bases?

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 9:00 am

Never thought to ask about sizes, nor about them being metal. They have to be able to attach to a magnetic sheet...its for storage purposes and going from place to place.
I already have 3/4x1 steel bases from Wargame Accessories, for my armour/ wehicles, but am looking for the same type of material, but round, for my infantry, guns, mortars and so on.
Sizes would be from 1/2" to maybe 1.25".

Its just to help out with knowing what's infantry and what isn't. I could stick with square basing too if need be.

CBoy3 · Post by **CBoy3** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:19 am

If you are looking for something magnetic, then my suggestion wouldn't work. I was going to suggest pennies. I have seen this done before. They seem to work well, and are cheap...only about a penny per base.

Peter_Fitz · Post by **Peter_Fitz** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 3:57 pm

I would suggest finding a light engineering manufactury, somewhere that produces steel stampings. You can get discs, ovals and what-not from their waste bins.

The down-side is that unless you want to pay them for the set-up to punch out exactly what you want, you'll be restricted to whatever sizes and gauges they happen to be working with at the time. However, the guys I've encountered have generally been pretty cooperative, and have been happy to let me fossick through their die-cutting off-cuts.

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:40 pm

A while back I was contemplating using 1 inch diameter washers without holes and found (and got a quote from) Boker's inc. They were willing to sell steel 'disc' washers (its a variety of specialty washer in their lingo) in bulk (thousand washers). I abandoned the project and don't recall the quote details ( maybe 400$ for 1000 washers?) but they were at least willing to respond to me. Quotes are free.

Leif

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:49 am

CBoy3 wrote:If you are looking for something magnetic, then my suggestion wouldn't work. I was going to suggest pennies. I have seen this done before. They seem to work well, and are cheap...only about a penny per base.

I was considering that option as well for command stands. On the other hand, I'm also trying to determine what size of basing for infantry style stands. Why? Well, I use systems that have the 1x1 basing and 1 stand= platoon, with a few others that are
1 stand= 1 squad. And having command stands on 1x1 in that scale just seems weird. Unless I have 2 separate ones.

Now there's an idea