Fix A Warped Rotary Mat

It fell off the seat and rested against the back of the front seat and is bowed on one end.

Fix a warped rotary mat. If you accidentally leave your rotary cutting mat in the car on a hot day or absentmindedly run a warm iron over it you ll be left with a useless warped cutting mat. However when the mat warps from improper storage or from being overheated it loses most of that usefulness. Cover with the glass. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to straighten it back out.

But before you discard your warped mat consider fixing it. A good way to try and fix a warped mat is to lay it out on a flat surface in the heat of the sun all day. Rotary cutting mats protect your work surface from damage while also providing convenient measurements cutting lines and angles. Any help would be.

Laying it in the hot sun on the sidewalk. Congratulations ellen good luck ginger. It was flapping along strapped to my cart with the sewing machine. A warped mat concrete piece of clean flat plywood as big as your mat or bigger piece of heavy glass as big as your mat or bigger.

Elaine has a problem. In many cases you can rescue your entire mat and you can always salvage pieces for smaller projects. Put the warped olfa mat on top. Soaking in hot water and then laying flat.

Lay your flat playwood on the concrete. So i eventually trashed the first and purchased a 2nd mat. Then the 2nd mat warped. Leave outside in the heat all day.

This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat. Help for warped cutting mat. My rotary cutting mat is warped. However many people swear they can fix a warped mat by.

Once i had a mat outside in bitter freezing weather. If it doesn t do so on its own once it is good and warm you can place heavy objects on it like books and leave them there until the mat has cooled. Storing between the mattress and box spring to flatten over time. That is funny how the sun often damages those mats and yet ellen had the sun reverse the damage.

Can it be saved. I stored it standing up behind a bookcase so that it stood on end but was restricted from falling down by the 1 2 space between the wall and the bookcase. Olfa on their website says there is no proven way to fix a warped cutting mat. I made a mistake and left my cutting mat in my car and now it is warped.