Olfa cutting board again

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This probably won't work but it shouldn't hurt either ( I think you are behond that anyway ). Find something(s) large enough that you can press the board between. like pressing flowers in a book. Stick the mat in the driyer at low heat for 5 to 10 minutes, make sure it comes out nice and floopy. Put it between your two whatevers, add some weights on top to make sure it presses properly (books , bricks etc.) and stick the whole thing under your bed for a couple of weeks.

Hopefully , the heat , will have allowed the tensions in the mat to even out and pressing it will force it back into the proper shape while it cools.

Jean

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I don't know if this would be practical in Amsterdam or not. But, someone wrote to another list that she put her warped cutting mat in her driveway on a sunny summer day, and after a few hours of it soaking up the heat, she put a sheet of plywood on top of it and drove her car back and forth over the plywood. She claimed that it worked. She also noted that it was so warped, she had nothing to lose by trying this.

If there any areas that are still flat and large enough to be useful, cut these areas out and contact cement them to 3/4 " thick particle board. You can use these smaller cutting boards on any surface since they have their own backing, even on your lap.

-- "Shut up and keep diggen" Jerry

Warped cutting boards do eventually flatten out. You just have to be patient.

The suggestion to put it in the dryer is, I hope, not serious enough to pay any attention to!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Lying it somewhere flat in the sun may very well do the trick. I've done that - without the car. I, too, let mine get too cozy with the iron.

Gail

"Pampeliska" .

Well, the sun will come in this country in about 2 months in the strength that could help warm the board a little bit. Beside this, I have not a dryer even a small one. My Olfa is the biggest, 40 by 23". Have you such a big dryer? In other words: there is no sun, no dryer in this household as far. I suppose the sun will help, but in the month of june or august. Our balcony is big enough to put it there al the afternoon and then in the evening I will use the two thick pieces of plywood or smthg like that.

anyway, tkx all of you.>

Suzan from Amsterdam

Dear Karen,

The suggestion to put the mat in the dryer is perfectly serious. The mat has been warped because it was subjected to heat in one spot, this spot expanded, since the rest of the mat was not heated similarly it caused the mat to warp. As the mat cooled down the stresses in the mat didn'T not even out and the mat staid warped.

In order to reflaten the mat one needs to up th whole thing not just the warped spot and allow it too cool completely while being maintained flat. Laying it flat in the hot sun will likely do the job, so would giving the mat a hot bath. Putting it in the dryer will take less time then the sun and will be less messy then the bath.

Regardless of the heating method chosen the mat must be allowed to cool down flat for several hours if not days , under some pressur.

Jean

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Another option would be to roll it up and give it a hot bath. or you could try "hanging it" near a heat source.

You will still need to lay it flat for the cooling off portion.

Jean

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Another option would be to roll it up and give it a hot bath. or you could try "hanging it" near a heat source.

You will still need to lay it flat for the cooling off portion.

Jean>

hot water can be used even in the winter, that's a sound advice, Jean, I'll try it and than 3 days or so under a heavy plywood(plasticificated= is this English?)

Suzan from A'dam

It just takes a few days for a petroleum product to off gas like when you get a new shower curtain.

Re: Olfa cutting board again

When Suzan first described her board warping, I emailed Olfa, described the problem, requested a solution. Just got an email this morning from Brian Shelton, Olfa Direct Marketing Manager. He said they know of no solution to remove warping/bubbling, etc., and suggests "setting that board aside for inexpensive paper cutting projects." I would suppose that intense heat alters the composition, and it can't be returned to it's original state. If it was my board, rather than throwing it out, I'd start experimenting. Please let us know the results of your experiments, Suzan. Cea

Since this particular mat is too large to put in a dryer, how about applying the heat from a blow dryer (for hair drying) to it, all across the surface of the mat?

I'd try a little on the actual bubbled part first, then if it doesn't work, start heating the whole thing.

Good luck, whatever you do!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Try it - as it is 'ruined' anyway, you have nowt to lose!

o ho ho, there we go, I just spent 10 minutes giving my Olfa a heat shower, the cutting board rolled up. Then very quickly on the floor with heavy plywood board on it. And now, I'll be waiting, as we say in Dutch " waiting until my own weight will be one ounce.. " Until next week, month :} Who knows? I'm patient girl. Hubby just asked my how much was the board worth. I think new(3 years ago) about 98 dutch guilders, it means about 50 US $ these days. And he looked unwel, he doesn't know anything about the prices for quilting. I buy the stuff one by one, it's really expensive. Maybe I have to use my dime bank...next month...snot

Suzan from Amsterdam