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How to flatten rubber mat.
Best way to flatten a rubber mat.
Most turntables have some form of mat.
Rug mats for example are often made of rubber and slid underneath fabric rugs to prevent slipping and sliding.
This can leave the mat looking rather tired and also reduces its ability to provide a firm platform for the record surface.
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.
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.
They tend to be either rubber or felt though you can get glass and cork mats.
In this video i am fixing unwarping my self healing cutting mat that got warped and bent with the heat from my laptop.
Creating this opposing new curl shape will in effect straighten the curled plastic.
I have acquired a few mats over the years and some haven t been stored super well and have creases in them so they dont lay flat.
This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat.
If you don t have space.
This article is about the rubber type.
Best way to flatten a rubber mat.
Keep it rolled up longer for thicker less for thinner plastic with a rubber band and check it every so often until the previously upturned curled corners are laying flat as.
Rubber can harden and discolour with time.
Unroll the mat as flat as you can get it.
In the winter it may be more like 7 days or longer.
The trick to removing wrinkles from rubber is to incorporate heat into the flattening process.
Any idea how to fix it.
Rubber objects can act as a protective layer atop valuable and fragile materials and are also useful as safety devices.