Help for warped cutting mat.
How to fix a warped rotary cutting mat.
But before you discard your warped mat consider fixing it.
Storing between the mattress and box spring to flatten over time.
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.
Olfa on their website says there is no proven way to fix a warped cutting mat.
Can it be saved.
Step by step tutorial this video goes into even more detail plus a few bonus tips on other ways to fix your curled mat.
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.
We tried everything we read on the internet that might fix it.
Laying it in the hot sun on the sidewalk.
Will never buy one of those again.
You can also watch the tutorial on youtube and check out the comments with lots of awesome suggestions on how to flatten a warped cutting mat.
My rotary cutting mat is warped.
How to flatten a warped cutting mat.
However when the mat warps from improper storage or from being overheated it loses most of that usefulness.
Soaking in hot water and then laying flat.
It fell off the seat and rested against the back of the front seat and is bowed on one end.
In many cases you can rescue your entire mat and you can always salvage pieces for smaller projects.
Once i had a mat outside in bitter freezing weather.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to straighten it back out.
In this video i am fixing unwarping my self healing cutting mat that got warped and bent with the heat from my laptop.
This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat.
Any help would be.
Warped cutting mat help.
If you don t have space.
That is funny how the sun often damages those mats and yet ellen had the sun reverse the damage.
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.
Congratulations ellen good luck ginger.
It was flapping along strapped to my cart with the sewing machine.
Elaine has a problem.
That is the first time i ever heard of fixing a warped mat.
I bought a very expensive green huge cutting mat left it flat on my cutting table and it still warped because the sun coming in the window in the wintertime got to it.