40 year old stantion bases

Today I bought a 12 ton hydraulic press to remove the stantions from the bases they've been in for 40 years. If I can press them out without breaking them I'll use them for the safety rails on the cabin roof. . . . . . Well, 6 of the 10 came out .... the other 4 broke. So much for using them on the cabin top. Oh well, back to my original idea of making all my won stantion bases. Fourteen for the cabin top and 18 or so for the deck, that's one every 5 ft plus the gates and pulpit and stern rail. Thirty-two in all including a couple spares. That's a lot of stantion bases !!!