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Silicon bench mats

Post by Downunder » 19 Aug 2021, 11:08 am

G’day all,

Thought I’d share this, I was after a non metallic receptacle for dropping annealed brass into from a butane annealer and came across this silicon baking mat, works well in that role but works equally well on the bench to keep things together and off the floor.
The tacky nature of silicon is excellent at stopping things sliding/rolling around.
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Post by disco stu » 19 Aug 2021, 11:17 am

Good idea. Even gives a clean place to work when work benchis perpetually dirty like mine.

Where do you buy find them-woolworths or more specialised places?
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Post by Downunder » 19 Aug 2021, 11:25 am

disco stu wrote:Good idea. Even gives a clean place to work when work benchis perpetually dirty like mine.

Where do you buy find them-woolworths or more specialised places?


Online (eBay), the retailer I went through was poor though, took a month to send it.

2 sizes, those in the pic are large.
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Post by Bugman » 19 Aug 2021, 12:04 pm

Yep. A good idea.
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Post by Bello » 20 Aug 2021, 10:12 am

Hi Mate
Being a softish sticky surface, do you have any issue keeping it clean?
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Post by Downunder » 20 Aug 2021, 11:07 am

Bello wrote:Hi Mate
Being a softish sticky surface, do you have any issue keeping it clean?


They do collect dust etc and it’s easy to see but wash easily in soapy water, I don’t see that as a bad thing as it’s stuff that would be floatING around unseen on the bench anyway.
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